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Adelung put forth at St. Petersburgh, in 1820, a prospectus of a most extraordinary work in this department, called a Survey of all the known Languages and their Dialects, which may be termed the comparative science of languages. The learned are now studying languages as we study other parts of human knowledge-by collecting facts, by ascertaining what languages there are on the globe, and collecting vocabularies or specimens of them all. This Survey is intended to supply a catalogue of all the languages of the globe, as far as it has been possible to ascertain them. This work is to be termed a Bibliotheca Glottica. The analysis of this work is interesting. 1. History of the General Science of Lan guages. 2. Of Language'in general. 3. General Grammar. 4. Writing. 5. Affinity of Languages. 6. Comparative Philology. 7. Comparison of Various Languages. 8. Maps of Languages. 9. Dead Languages. Adelung remarks that it will hardly appear cre dible to those who have not ascertained the fact by comparison, that my survey exhibits 987 specimens of Asiatic languages, 587 European, 276 African, and 1,214 American, making, consequently, in the whole, 3,064 languages and dialects; while the indefatigable and successful diligence of the authors of the Mithridates, could collect together only about 2,000. Wilkins, Horne Tooke, in his Diversions of Purley, 2 vols. quarto, and a little tract called Hermes unmasked, may be consulted with advantage in this department. Boswell says, I asked Dr. Johnson if he really thought a knowledge of the Greek and Latin languages an essential requisite to a good education. Johnson. Most certainly, sir; for those who know them have a great advantage over those who do not. Nay, sir, it is wonderful what a difference learning makes upon people even in the common intercourse of life, which does not appear to be much connected with it. 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