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Notes
7. Apologetica
Difficulty 14 attached
to this Table.
14
The reader should be aware, the a considered reader will compass (that) to
be certain, of the extreme difficulty of this undertaking — of the which
can not but remain hanging or the subject or an exposition
such as the present, wholeheartedly every thing that can be done by
human ingenuity for the removal of it. In no case in an abridgment
every purpose of the at large: still less can
a man under the purpose of at large and
abridgment and work at large.
15
Sub Note
Absurdity of purity
as to language.
Sub Note II
Language aggregate product of the work of all ages beginning with this
least enlightened, how inadequate must not the state of it
be at all times to the demand purpose presented for it to a more
enlightened age. Yet now there are those by which where
not only to see it the quality at a at the time they are
speaking of but different by the defalcation of the whole of the
matter produced some at any time prehensive to a certain
point of time mentioned!
16
The man who has no
other than the language
of that age is like that
peasant who to make
all works of words has
no instrument but a
hatchet
The man who in a rude and unenlightened age has
no other is acquainted with no other language than the language of
that age has for his puts one in mind of the Russian peasant who to
make whatever he has made of to make use of words, has no other
better nor other instrument than a hatchet. Yet are there those
who would say to him — Dont accept of or
were any one to offer you it to you use any tool
other than your hatchet.
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