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Englishmen especially, are at this moment employed by thou sands, as Merchants, Missionaries, Magistrates, &c., in learning hundreds of different languages spoken by people 111 all stages of civilization, from the lowest state of society upwards, and m their speedy acquisition of a correct knowledge and free colloquial use of several tongues of those tribes, hundreds of millions of the human race are most deeply interested, as that upon which mainly de pends both their temporal and eternal interests. Yet I am not aware that there is in existence a single work in which this sub jcet is closely and systematically investigated. It must be ob served that the point before us is, what 15 the best mode of acquir ing a knowledge of the language of savage and semi-civilized na tions? And that this is in some important respects quite distinct from both the acquisition _of dead languages andi'also of the living languages of nations who have been fully civilized and, conse quently, have a complete system of literature, a great variety of books of instruction written by extensively informed Natives, and also thoroughly educated teachers.
There are difficulties in learning the languages of semi-civiliz ed and barbarous people which (do not exist in the case of the languages of civilized nations, and with respect to, the dead lau guages the principal points to be attended to and the objects aimed at are so entirely different from those in living languages, that what is applicable to the one is almost entirely inapplicable to the other.
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