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PREFACE.

HE Knowledge of the Tongues is allow’d to be one of the most Useful and Ornamental Parts of Knowledge, to all in general; and to some, a Necessary Talent. And it may justly be affirm’d, That He has no Right to the Name of a Scholar, that he has not examin’d the Principles of every Considerable Language; or to that of a Gentleman, who is not a Competent Master of each Tongue that is requisite to carry him thro’ any Civil Employ in the Service of the Publick. Rh