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is the Art of Speaking and Writing, truly and properly. Speaking we use certain Signs, which are necessary to discover our Thoughts to one another. These Signs, are Sound, and Voice.

But besides, Sound, and Voice, by which we are able to converse with one another when present; There are other Signs have been invented, where these Sounds cannot be heard, to supply the want of them in such manner, as that we may both canverse with one another at a distance, and communicate our Thoughts to future Ages.

The first of these Signs belongs properly to Speech, or unwritten Discourse. The latter are made use of in Writing.

Hence the Greeks, from whom we receiv'd the first Rudiments of this Art, have deliver'd down to us the