A philosophicall essay for the reunion of the languages : $b or, The art of knowing all by the mastery of one

Besnier, Pierre · 1705

Produced by David Starner, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team _Meeting by chance with this ingenuous offer, I thought it might not be improper since I found it in another dresse, to make it speak another Language too, which among the most creditable of Europe, hath not desisted from its claim to Antiquity: There are very few Nations but have, at sometime or other, laid in their pretences to a supremacy for their Language, and have boasted an assistance from unsuspected reason and Authority: But however variously the controversie hath been manag'd, the modesty, and ingenuity of this Author hath rendred, his designe more plausible, for having without any private regard …

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