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Show · ~ :Of tbe ttduancement of learning, · ·the ·charaEiers are accepte.d more generally, thaa . . . , the u 116uages doe extend; 1 and and therefore they I ' bat1e a vaft multitude of CrJaraffers, as tnany (lfup. · · · .pore, ~s R adicall words· . - · fhefe !'Iotts of cogitatt(}ns are of twoo fortes; The one whe~ the Note hath fotne Simtlitude, or c onrrretitie \Vith the 'Notion; The other cAd Pta. citt1~, hauing force onely by Co~tra~ ~r, Accep. tativn.. Of the former fort are Htert{P./:ph~etes)and ;Gejlures. For as to Hierogl!ph!ckes, (thtngs of i\n. ,cient vfe, and embraced chtcfely by the v£g,Yp· zians, one of the mofi ancient Nations) they are ·but as continued Impreafes and Emblemes. ·And .as for Gejfures, they 0 are .as 0 Tranfitorie Hi~rogli· phickts, and are to Hterog!tphtckes, as _If ords jpoken . are to IV ordts written, in that they abtde not; but .they haue euermore as .well, as the o~her an affi.ni ·tie with the thinge.s fignlfied : as Perrande~ beemg -confulted with how to prelerue a tyrannie new· , ·Jy vfurped, bid the }rf elfenger attend , ~nd r~· ~port what bee fa we .him doe, and went 1nto h~s Garden, and topped all the higefi flowers: figm· fying that it confifted in the cutting off, and kee.· ping low of the Nobilitie and Grandts; .Ad PlMt· tllm are the ChJraEftrs real/ before menuoned,and IV ords-: although fomc haue ben willing by Curious ·Enquirie, or rather by apt fayning, to hane de· . lfiued impofition ofNa,nes, from Reafon and I~· !endment: a [peculation elegant, and by rea~ontt , (earchetb into AnthJuilie reuerent : but fpann~ly . tnt~t 'The fecond hoo~. · 6 o mm. with truth, I and of fmall frtlite . This por-eidn of kno\v'ledge, touching the NoteJ of thtngeJ, De .ftloti1 maCogitation5 in g~nerall, 1 finde not enquired, Rerum •. but ~eiicient. And although it may feeme of no great vfe,confidering that l!lords, and.tf' ritings by let- . t~rs,doefarexcel!alirheother wayes: yet becaufe: this .. part concerneth) as it were the Mint of knowJe{ ig.e (ftjr wordes~ are the tokens currant and ac .. tepted for conceits~ as Moneys are for values and·, tbatit is fit men be not ignorant, that .tl.foneys may_ ti e of another kind, than gold and'filuer)I thought~ od to propound it to better Enquirie.. · .. Concerning S PEE CI-I an~ W o It DEs, ,the~ €cnfideration of them halh produced the Sci._ re of G R AM MAR: for Man_ flill firiueth tore.; . ~grate hitnfelfe in thofe beneditti?ns, fr_o1n tiich by his fault hee hath been deprtued ;. Andi hee .hath firiuen againfl the firft genera:ll curfe, ~the Inuention of all other Art.es": ·So hath hee · fOught to come foorth of the feconde generaU~ turfe, (\vhich was the confufton of Tongues) by. be Art of GRAMMAR; whereof the v(e in ano .. th~r. tonPue is fin all : in a forreine tongue m.ore: b~tmofiinfuch Forraine To~gues, as haue cealed~; H>be Y ulgar T o~(tles, and · ar~ t~1rned on ely to !ettrWid tongues·. The duetie of 1t ts of twoo Natures:· e 0ne roprJlar, whichisforthefpeedie,and per· ~ttayiling Languages, a~ well for intercourfe· ~eech, as for vnderfla tng of Authors: Th~: . Philofophicall, examining the power and Na~ - · p p.. 4. . ~ure: , |
