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LOGOPANDECTEISION. 321
129. Nine and fiftiethly, For pithiness of proverbs, oracles, and sentences, no lan-
guage can paralel with it.
1 30. Sixtiethly, In axioms, maximes, and aphorisms, it is excellent above all other
languages.
131. One and sixtiethly, For definitions, divisions, and distinctions, no language is
so apt.
132. Two and sixtiethly, For the affirmation, negation, and infinitation of proposi-
tions, it hath proprieties unknown to any other language, most necessary for know-
ledge.
133. Three and sixtiethly, In matters of Enthymems, Syllogisms, and all manner of
illative ratiocination, it is the most compendious in the world.
134. Sixtie fourthly, Negative expressions are more compendiously uttred in this
language then in any other in the world.
135. Sixtie fifthly, The infinitant terms by this tongue are in one single word ex-
pressed, which succinctness is by no other language afforded.
136. Lastly, There is not any phrase whatsoever, which, for being peculiar to one
speech, and consequently in all other to be improperly taken, wherewith each known
tongue in the world is most variously stored, hath, when translated from its original
idiome, the denomination of Graecism, Latinism, Scotism, Anglicism, and so forth ;
but in this universal language is so well admitted, that, in losing nothing of its ge-
nuine liveliness, it beareth along with it, without any diminution either of sense or
expression, the same very emphasis in the stream which it had at the spring, the like
whereof is in no other language to be found.
137. Besides these sixty and six advantages above all other languages, I might
have couched thrice as many more, of no less consideration then the aforesaid, but
that these same will suffice to sharpen the longing of the generous Reader, after the
intrinsecal and most researched secrets of the new grammar and lexicon which I am
to evulge.
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