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culations, \vhich,, in like manner,, naturally communicate
very distinct ideas to the hearer.
And, though such a natural character of sounds be de-
faced, and Aveakened, by the refinement, or the corruption
of language, yet is it not obliterated. The organs of
speech, in many instances, can still point out a relation be-
tween the ideas we are desirous to express, and corresponding
sounds, which are as fairly subjects of discrimination to the
philologist, as the external characters of the passions are ta
the painter.