Attractions of language, or, A popular view of natural language, in all its varied displays, in the animate and the inanimate world, and as corresponding with instinct, intelligence and reason : a physiological description of the organs of voice : an account of the origin of artificial, spoken language : and a brief analysis of alphabetical sounds.
"The author treats of language. His design is to exhibit the various methods by which ideas are imparted to the mind, both from inanimate and animated nature. He thus discusses the whole subject of natural and artificial language, ascending through every gradation, from the simple dialect of th...
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