CHAP. V.
Language.
Sect. 1.—On learning Languages.
The learning of Languages is, in these days, an object of such general pursuit, and at the same time of such real importance, that every plan of instruction which has for its object to abridge the labour of this study, or to give permanence to its acquisitions, comes to our consideration with the strongest claims on our attention. The first approach to the study of Languages presents to view a long and dreary passage, but which must be travelled through with care and diligence, by those who wish to make any useful progress. Now it would certainly be a great advantage to turn and shorten this toilsome road, and be enabled to pursue our journey through the regions of science by more direct and less fatiguing advances.
That any course of learning should be devised by which the acquisition of Languages shall be
