Essay on Language

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NEW-YORK.
CHARLES WILEY, No. 3 WALL-STREET.

1825.

Southern District of Nen-York, ss. DE IT REMEMBERED, That on the sixteenth day of February, A. D.

D 1825, in the forty-ninth year of the Independence of the United Stites of America, William s Cardell, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit :

“Essay on Language, as connected with the Faculties of the Mind, and as applied to things in Nature and Art. Socia mentis lingua. By William S. Cardell "

In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "A Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein inentioned." And also to an Act, entitled “an Act, supplementary to an Act, entitled an Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints "

JAMES DILL, Clerk of the Southern District of New York

J. SEYMOUR, PRINTER, JOHN-STREET.

CONTENTS.

Introductory dissertation,

General view of language as intimately combined with

the mental powers, the instruction and welfare of na-
tions, and the whole social and commercial intercourse

of rational beings, - - - - -
Structure of speech in its earliest known forms, deduced

from the nature and wants of man, and the condition of

savage life, .

Brief history of the progress of letters, from the time of

their invention, with a slight notice of the changes to
which language has been subjected from political and

moral causes, - - - - - 13
General character of the English language, and its his-