O R, APHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY CONCERNING UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR, BY JAMES HARRIS, ESQ. ΕΙΣΙΕΝΑΙ ΘΑΡΡΟΥΝΤΑΣ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΓΑΡ ΚΑΙ ΕΝΤΑΥΘΑ ΘΕΟΥΣ. THE FOURTH EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED, DUBLIN: Printed for JAMES WILLIAMS, at N°. 5, in SKINNER-Row. M,DCC,LXXIII. To the Right Honourable PHILIP Lord HARDWICKE, Lord High Chancellor of Great My Lord, A S no one has exercifed the Powers of Speech with juster and more universal applause, than yourfelf; I have prefumed to infcribe the following Treatife to your Lordship, its End being to investigate the Principles of those Powers. It has a farther claim to your Lordship's Patronage, by being connected in fome degree with that politer Literature, which, in the most important scenes of Bufiness, you have ftill found time to cultivate. With regard to myself, if what I have written be the fruits The above Dedication is printed as it originally stood, the Author being defirous that what he intended as real Respect to the noble Lord, when living, fhould now be confidered, as a Teftimony of Gratitude to his Memory. 111 |