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Southern District of New-York, ss.

B1825, in the forty-ninth year of the Independence of the United States E IT REMEMBERED, That on the sixteenth day of February, A. D.

of America, William S Cardell, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit:

"Essay on Language, as connected with the Faculties of the Mind, and as applied to things in Nature and Art. Socia mentis lingua. By William S. Cardell "

In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "Ap Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned." And also to an Act, entitled "an Act, supplementary to an Act, entitled an Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints " JAMES DILL, Clerk of the Southern District of New-York.

J. SEYMOUR, PRINTER, JOHN-STREET.

CONTENTS.

General view of language as intimately combined with
the mental powers, the instruction and welfare of na-
tions, and the whole social and commercial intercourse
of rational beings,

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Structure of speech in its earliest known forms, deduced
from the nature and wants of man, and the condition of
savage life,
Brief history of the progress of letters, from the time of
their invention, with a slight notice of the changes to
which language has been subjected from political and
moral causes,

General character of the English language, and its his-
tory, from the invasion of England by Julius Cesar, to
the present time,

Philosophic exposition of speech in its practical adapta-
tion to the purposes of life,

Elementary principles and definitions,

Names of things grammatically considered,

Words of relation and description, adjectives,

Actions or affirmations-verbs,

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Logic and philosophic elucidation of moods and tenses,

ib.

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