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TABULATION. Hermes 1
A Treatise so entitled on Universal grammar so entitled by James Mr Harris Esq:r a work which it would might do a Lawyer more service to have read than to have got Horace or Virgil by heart or the strings wherein it is proved out of which men have proved for some hundreds of years that the corruption of one thing is the generation of another or the answers to a set of Schemes Questions or even than to have subscribed the 39 Articles.
To take an example from the Hermes: I will Let us
suppose that having undertaken set about to sketch out
the text a Synopsis outline of that work in the manner
of arboric Tabulation [for which operation] the
nature of the materials & the masterly skill
of the workman have render'd it less useful more obsequious than
most that could be pitched upon] I was we were advanced
to at as far as the Chapter concerning Attributions.
The purport of that Chapter is to
announce that the division of Attributives one another into
3 species are Verbs Participles or Adjectives,
explaining the of each of which species the
characters are explained
In This then in the Tabula Arboric from there
will make an of itself, one ramification: of
which [Hermes] [Attributive] is the subalternate
or partial + + a Lianeus, Philosoph Bot. Partial Umbel. Trunk, and "Verb",
"Participle" & "Adjective", the
Branches; & would thus be repre-
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