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' It is probable that the first want of Words, and necessity of articulate Speech, arose among Men, when they had a mind to explain and point out to one another the things that happened to them; and to signify who were the Persons concerned; and chiefly when they had the Pa/fions and Disasters of Life to describe, and were to tell who had suffered these Difajiers' Platonic $ue/lions.







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Arabs and Moors in common Conversation, is evi dent from their Histories, of which the follow ing is an Example from that of Granada; it is the Speech of a Caliph to one of his Captains. Abe nam ar! Thou'rt a Moort Of the noble Moorish Race When thy Mother such thee bore, " Mighty Signs that Day took place : On that Day the Sea was calm; .; . On the full Moon too it fell; In such Signs whose Birth is jaliens ' No Untruth /hould ever tell. And this, of the same kind; Red van! Rh