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OR LITERARY JOURNAL, ENLARGED: From SEPTEMBER to DECEMBER, inclusive,
M,DCC,XCI.
With an APPENDIX.
"You who seek to give and merit Fame,
"And justly bear a Critic's noble name -
"Be niggards of advice on no pretence,
"For the word avarice is that of Sense.
“With mean complacence ne'er betray your trust,
“Nor be so civil as to prove unjust.
"Fear not the anger of the Wise to raise;
"They best can bear reproof, who merit praise." POPE.
VOLUME VI.
LONDON: Printed for R. GRIFFITHS; AND SOLD BY T. BECKET, IN PALL MALL.
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TABLE OF THE TITLES, AUTHORS' NAMES, &c. of the Publications reviewed in
this Volume.
N. B. For REMARKABLE PASSAGES, in the Criticisms and Extracts, see the INDEX,
at the End of the Volume.
For the Names, also, of wthose learned Foreigners who are the Authors of new
Dissertations, or other curious Papers, published in the MEMOIRS and
TRANSACTIONS of the Royal and other Scientific ACADEMIES on the Continent,
and also for the Titles of those Dissertations, &c. of which Accounts are
given in the Review, - see the Index, printed at the End of this Volume.
A
AANTEEKENINGEN, &c. 518
Aboriginal Britons. a Poem, 398
Account of the Society for promoting Industry, &c. 231, 234
Ackerman on the Cretins, 572
Address to the People, 226
Address to every Briton, 228
Address of M. Rabaut de St. Etienne, 459.
Air. See Bewley.
Aitken on Fractures, 451
Aix-la-Chapelle. See De Dobm.
Alarm Bell founded, 579
Alcock's Visitation Sermon at Plymouth, 118
America, Travels in, 531.
America, See Williams.
American Oracle, 269
Aracharsis, Travels of, translated, 83
Analysis of Legislation, 339
Anderson on the Philosophy of Ancient Greece, 361
Anger, Essay on, 111
Animal Magnetiam, a Ballad, 458
Arquetil's Memoirs of the Court of France, translated, 310
Askinson's Poetical Epistle from Marie Antoinette, queen of France, 457
Austin's Sermon, 471
Answer to Priestley's Letters to Burke, 101
Appendix to the Account of the Shrewsbury House of Industry, 234
Archaeologia Cornu Britannica, 372
Archery, Anecdotes of, 104 .
Areotagitica, 338
Ashdowne’s Attempts to shew that the Devil is not a fallen Angel, 473
Balsetti's Edition of the Satires of Salvator Rosa, 230
Bampton's Lethires, by Kett, 68
Bankrupt Laws, Digest of, 343
Barbary. See Poiret.
Barbauld's (Mrs.) Epistle to Wilberforce, 226
Barthélemy's Travels of Anacharsis, translated, 83
Bell's Sermons at Glasgow, 111
Beloe's Translation of Herodotus, 241. 404
Belsham's Historic Memoir on the French Revolution, 93
Benley's Poems, 284
Berquin's History of Little Grandison, 99
Bewley on Air, 435
Birmingham Riots, Tracts relat. to, 223. 237-239. 349, 350. 461. 478.
Bisarri's Letters, 447
Blacksmith's Letter, 475
Blood. See Corriie.
Boardman's Translat. of Linguet's Review of Voltaire's Works, 291
Booker's Miscellaneous Poems,
Baooker’s Sermon, 479.
Borxacchini's Parisian Master, 348
Borxacchini's Tuscan Master, ib.
Bowden's Epitaph Writer, 458
Bowles on the Rights of Judge and Jury, 336
Bowles’s
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though his power of illustration may not be fully equal to the talk of
delineating Grecian philosophy under its most engaging aspect. Those who may
incline to peruse the former works of Dr. Walter Anderson, will find
references to our accounts of them, by consulting our General Index, under the
claas of HISTORY.
ART. II. Archaeologia Cornu-Britannica; or, an Essay to preserve the Ancient
Cornish Language, containing the Rudiments of that Dialect, in a Cornish
Grammar and Cornish English Vocabulary, compiled from a variety of materials
which have been inaccessible to all other Authors. By William Pryce, M. D. of
Redruth, Cornwall, Author of Mineralogia Cornubiensis (1) 4to. pp. 236. 1l. 1s.
Boards. Dilly. 1790.
1/ See Monthly Review for October 1778, vol. lix, p. 268.
DR. PRYCE remarks, in his preface to this elaborate composition, that as the
discovery of an original language is the first and leading step to the
progressional examination of all other antiquities of a country, it follows
of course, that the oldest tongue ought to be studied and understood
previously to our entering on the remains and records of less remote ages. On
this consideration, I am inclined to believe that a work of this tendency
will be very acceptable both to the antiquarian and the philologist;
especially as I can very safely assert that the old Cornish-British, which is
here distinguished very precisely from the modern Cornish dialect, is the
most pure and nearest the original, of any speech now used in Armorica, or
the northern provinces of France, Great Britain, and Ireland.'
We agree with the Doctor that, to the studious and exact antiquary, an
acquaintance with the original language, if it can he attained, is likely to
prove highly conducive to the illustration of other subjects which fall under
his notice; yet how many are there who take pleasure in archaeological
inquiries, and have neither the leisure nor the means for such an
acquisition? they are therefore indebted to those authors who endeavour, as
in the work before us, to facilitate their progress.
It seems to be allowed, and with great reason, among those who have most
closely investigated the point, that the Hebrew is the general source whence
other languages have originated: the Phenician (or Canaanitish) was no doubt
connected with it, or rather formed on it. From the Phenician, as this
writer, together with others, remarks, the Greeks, and afterward the Latins,
computed their letters; and from the Greek and old Latin tongues, our author
supposes the ancient and true Cornish is mostly derived: — but here we are
inclined to ask, why
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he should apply to them, when there is a probability at least, that, anterior
to the Greeks and Romans, the Phenicians visited Britain, and particularly
the coasts of Cornwall? If, aboutthe time of the Trojan war, they first
discovered these shores, as he apprehends, and traded for the tin which they
produced, it is natural to conclude that their language would in some degree
be communicated, and this indeed the Dodtor afterward appears to acknownlege,
when, treating more generally on the British isle, he adds, - ‘The language
at that time spoken in other parts of this island, having travelled across a
vast continent, was compounded and impure, and therefore we may boldly infer,
that the superior purity of the ancient Cornish is chiefly to be ascribed to
its genuine introduction from the shores of Greece and Sidon.' — Though
Greece is here united with Sidon, it should seem likely that the intercourse
with the latter was prior to that of the former: — but this is a point which
we leave to be determined by those who can afford it more attention.
We have been accustomed to consider the Erse, the Manse, the Welsh, and
perhaps the Irish also, as dialects of the ancient British , with these we
are to join the Cornish, to which, we are told, what is termed the
Armoric-British bears a considerable similarity, for, as this writer remarks,
‘the coasts of Bretagne, Normandy, and Picardy, are opposite to the shores of
Cornwall, Devon, &c. so that the first commercial discoverers of those
lands, in their sailing up the British channel, had equal opportunities of
communicating their Grecian and Roman dialects of the Syriac root.' — It is
however well known, that, when our British ancestors were compelled to retire
before their hostile intruders, numbers of them crossed over to France, the
province of Bretagne, in particular, seems to have received its name from
that circumstance, which alone would be sufficient, we apprehend, to account
for some colloquial resemblance , although we are not unwilling to allow that
it might, in a degree, have had a higher original. The low French, and the
Cornish, in Bas Bretagne, Dr. Pryce remarks, appear almost one and the same
dialect:
‘If I had not been otherwise (he adds) well apprized of this fact, yet my
opinion vould have been confirmed by what I have heard from a very old man
now living at Mousehole near Penzance, who is, I believe, at this time, the
only person capable of holding half an hour's conversation on common subjects
in the Cornish tongue. (1) He tells me, that above threescore years ago,
being at Morlaix, on board a smuggling cutter, and the only time he was ever
there, he
1/ See Monthly Review for Dec, 1775, vol. liii. p. 497; for Feb. 1780, vol.
lxii. p. 109.
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was ordered on shore with another man to buy some greens, and not knowing a
word of French, as he thought, he was much surprised to find, that he
understood part of the conversation of some boys at play in the street: and
on farther inquiry, he found that he could make known all his wants in
Cornish, and be better understood than he could be at home, when he used that
dialect. I am well satisfied of the fact, as he is quite an illiterate man,
and could have neither the temptation nor the ingenuity to invent a story so
useless to himself."
The old British language, after the success of the Saxons, became
unintelligible and useless in the body of this island, whence it was driven
to the borders, such as Scotland, Wales, and Cornwall, where, we are told, it
still maintains a regard and footing among the respective inbabitants, in the
dress of different dialects. However this may be, it is a fact that the Welsh
alone have manifested this veneration to the purpose of preserving it among
the natives: many thousands of them, it is here observed, and we believe with
justice, scarcely knowing how to make themselves understood in the Saxon or
English. It is no new remark, that numbers of our Welsh neighbours have
carried their enthusiasm in this respect to a great height indeed, which some
among them, we are here informed, still maintain, so that, e they hold all
other speech in the utmost contempt, preferring their own predilection with
the most stubborn perverseness, and shunning in the most contumacious manner
every sort of interlocution and communion with any other tongue, till
overcome by the pressure of their necessities, and the unavoidable
intercourse of manhind in trade and business." — Dr. P. laments that the
inhabitants of Cornwall had not possessed such a degree of this pertinacity,
as might have prevented the ancient dialect from becoming altogether
obsolete, if not totally dead, as he fears is now the case.
‘Such has been the inattention of our ancestors, and the depredation of time,
that our primitive speech was nearly annihilated before the art of printing
could perpetuate the memory of it to posterity. So habitually inattentive
were they, that many years after the discovery of this art, they never
adverted to the preservation of the MSS. in their language, so that the only
MS extant, was that found in the Cotton Library, now about 800 years old,
from which time no other MS. appears, till about the fifteenth century, when
we meet with one, which exhibits three ordinalia or interludes taken from
Holy Writ, the originals of which, with two or three more, are in the
Bodleian Library."
Dr. Pryce presents us with a short account of the few who have preceded him
in these inquiries. Among others, Mr Scawen of Molinick, Vice-warden of the
Stannaries, applied himself late in life, about 1678, to the subject: but it
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only be expected from him that he should, in his own phrase, hoc digito
monstrare viam: “If, (the old gentleman writes,) I should say, that these
endeavours of mine, would be totally useful and successful to the recovery of
the speech, as ill qualifed as I am, I know well it must be thought more vain
and censurable in me, now at 84, than it was in Tully to attempt the Greek
tongue at 60 years." - We cannot but be pleased to observe, at that
advanced period, a spirit disposed for such an investigation, though it
produced no great effect, for he died in the same year, and left his papers
on this and other subjects in a disordered state, —which possibly might, in
part at least, be owing to his survivors. After a pause of about twenty
years, Mr. Lhuyd, about the beginning of the present century, on the inquiry,
and made some progres in conjunction with others in elucidating the subject.
He was well qualified for it: but, in the year 1709, death frustrated his
design: ‘the greatest loss, (observes this writer,) to this pursuit that it
ever had, or ever will meet with, on account of his profound learning and
singular attachment to the recovery of our primitive language. In his hands,
particularly fitted as he was for the undertaking, and supplied with every
essential article of erudition from surrounding libraries, not only the
recovery of this dialect would have been effected, but it would have been
adorned with every elegancy and improvement, from the unceasing labours of
such a consummate philologist.' — Such is the tribute paid to the memory of
Mr. Lhuyd: it is introduced with propriety, and we dispute not the justice of
the eulogium: we think also, the reader may perceive in it somewhat of that
enthusiastic warmth, without a degree of which a man will hardly have
attention and resolution sufficient for words of this nature, Mr. Lhuyd's
MSS. were committed to the care of Sir Thomas Sebright, who died in the year
1736: his heir being a minor, and the trustees unmindful of such things as
were not obviously and immediately connected with the benefit of their
charge, those collections, it is said, were eventually buried, and lost to
all future public inspection.
Mr. Hals of Fenton Gymps, is another labourer in this business, to whom the
public expectation, we are told, was directed about the 15th year of the
present century, but it was by no means answered. Indeed he appears to have
been an ignorant and unqualified man, who supposed that learning consisted in
a huge collection of words without order, sense, or meaning: for we are here
infonmed that ‘he took uncommon pains to heap together a mass of them, which
he entitled Lhadymer ay Kernow, or the Cornish interpreter:' — It is farther
added, — Mr.
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‘Mr. Hals's Lhadymer is a most strange hodge-podge of Hebrew, Greek, Latin,
and British words, confusediy heaped together, and in such a manner as not only
to shew his want of method, but also to expose his great deficiency in those
earned languages which he lugged in to support and illustrate his etymology,
it being common with him to write tempora regnum Augustus; ostium fluvius,
&c.’ - The reader will be as much surprized, as we have been, that a man
of such slender attainments should have employed any efforts in this kind of
science: but it sometimes happens that, where there is little knowlege, there
is much conceit. Dr. Pryce, however, observes that even this farrago
contained some intelligence not unworthy of his notice, and that he has taken
care to select from it all that was valuable and proper for his purpose.
On the demise of Mr. Lhuyd, some Cornish gentlemen, who had endeavoured to
promote his success, found other associates, who united to maintaia ‘a
correspondence in their native tongue, as well as tney could, by collecting
all the mottoes, proverbs, and idioms, on vhich they could lay their hands.'
The result of this coalition was an alphabetical arrangement of words,
together with other papers on the subject under discussion, to which our
author has had access by means of the descendants or connections of the late
Mr. Tonkin, who appeared at the head of the association.
Such is the relation which we here find of the manuseript ground-work of this
undertaking: the Doctor confesses an implicit submission to the words of Mr.
Lhuyd, and also of the late Dr. Wm. Borlase, ‘who,’ he adds, ‘in the interval
betwixt the death of the late Mr. Tonkin, and the delivery of his papers into
my custody, published, at the end of his Antiquities of Cormvall (1),
1/ See Monthly Review, vol. x. p. 415.
an epitomised vocabulary, which has furnished a few useful additions to my
larger collection. It is likewise with singular satisfaction that I
acknowledge my obligations to the Rev. Mr. Whitaker, of Ruan Lanyhorn, for
his communications, and his criticisms on the British language, a gentleman
whose warm defence of our ancient tongue deserves the gratelul applause of
his country."
We have only farther to observe, that the Vocabulary, found in the Cotton
Library, bas proved of use in the completion of the present work; and that
Mr. Martin Keigwin, and his son, Mr. Jobn Keigwin, both inhabitants of the
little fishing village of Moulhole, were ready on all occasions to clear up
any doubts that might arsse, and were generally fortunate in removing the
difficulties which embarrassed those gentlemen who were united
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with or succeeded to Mr, Tonkin, &c. in this development.
These short extracts from the preface, and the remarks which are added, will
afford the reader some idea of the nature of the volume before us, and also
of the difficulty with which its completion has been attended. For his
farther satisfaction, the best method which we can take, is to insert the
concluding paragraphs of this introduction, or as the Doctor modestly terms
it, the Editor's preface, and editor he is, as he would not wish to be
regarded as an inventor of words and phrases: but for collecting, arranging,
and illustrating them, he appears to have employed sufficient thought and
industry to give him some claim to the higher name of author, which we have
therefore occasionally bestowed, and the passages which now follow, tend to
confirm us more in its propriety.
‘After much consideration, how to render my performance so full and complete
as to engage the approbation of the public, and as the curious nature of the
undertaking demands, I determined to make it a digest of the Cornish-British
language, by introducing in the first part the marrow of Mr. Lhuyd's grammar,
with some additions, in which are incorporated his instructions for the reading
of old Britih MSS. — I hope this very learned introduction to Philology,
which I have reprinted at the entrance of my book, will not be found out of
its place. — The second part contains my vocabulary, consisting of several
thousand words collected and arranged from the materials already mentioned.
This hath employed the labour of many years, and perhaps a work of a drier
kind hath seldom been undertaken by any harmless drudge (1)
See Dr. Johnson on the word “Lexicographer." Rev. Dec. 1791.
whomsoever. As the whole of the Cotton Vocabolary is inserted, I have taken
care to note each word from that ancient remain, with this mark †. - The
third and last part consists of the Cornish proper names of hundreds,
parishes, villages, &c. with their distinctions of the old and modern
Cornish, set forth in the concicest manner I could adopt, so that the reader
may, at a single glance, apprehend the difference. This is followed by the
Creed, Paternoster, and Decalogue in both ancient and modern Cornish; and
also mottos, proverbs, and sayings in the vulgar Cornish; with the last
correspondence between Mr. Lhuyd and Mr. Tonkin.
‘I wish, indeed, it had been within the compass of my knowledge, to have
rendered the Vocabulary perfect and complete; but the scanty and limited
materials I had to consult rendered every hope of that kind abortive: for
according to the best information I have been able to procure, there are no
other Cornish MSS. to be met with any where, beside those I have already
mentioned , from which I have extracted those words in the Vocabulary, which
are to be found in them, illustrated by numerous quotations from them, which
are familiar to the language of Scripture and the popolar idiom.
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‘As for the vulgar Cornish now spoken, it is so confined to the extremest
corner of the county, and those ancient perscons who still pretend to jabber
it, are even there so few; the speech itself is so corrupted; and the people
too, for the most part, are so illiterate, that I cannot but wonder at my
patience, and assume some merit to myself for my singular industry in
collecting the words which I have accumulated from oral intelligence,
especially as hardly any of the persons whom I have consulted, could give a
tolerable account of the orthography, much less of the etymology, or
derivation, of the words which they use; for they often join, or rather run,
two or three words together, making but one of them all, though their pronunciation
is generally correct: as for instance, Merastadu, which they pronounce in one
breath, as if it were a single word: whereas it is a contraction of four,
Meor’ras tha Dew, Many thanks to God, anciently written, Maur gras tha Dew:
and Meraslawy, Many thanks to you; a contraction of Maur’ras tha why.’
To this necessary detail of the rise, progress, and completion, of the work
before us, it may be acceptable to many readers, and is certainly proper, to
affix a few specimens from the Vocabulary.
‘Boos, food; — see Boz and Buz; also drink to excess; hence boozy, booing.
‘Carn, carne, pl. carnou, carnon, an high rock, a shelf in the sea; properly,
an heap of rocks, a rocky place, as carne in verrian.
‘Col, the hinder part of the neck, also the ridge or neck of a hill, by
corruption from kil, as, colquite in St. Maben, the neck of the wood,
anciently Kilcoid, &c. collibiggan, the small neck.
‘Credza, to believe; an credgyans abes telath, the apostles’ creed
‘Cul, to make, to do; Johan, gueres ou cul tan; John, help me to make the
fire.
‘Derrick, a sexton, a grave-digger. Nomen familiae.
‘Dèg, dêg; ten: deg uar igans, thirty: q.d. ten upon twenty.
‘Dizauney, a breakfast; in French, déjeuné, to break the fall.
‘Dron, a throne, also, a hill; the Gundron, in Gulvall, the Downs hill.
‘Dzhyrna, a day, from the old word, journee, which word we still retain in
journeyman: an dzhyrnama war zeithan, this day seven nights.
‘Ennis, ennes, enys, the island; ince, ynes, ynys. — Also a peninsula, or
half island, made so by a river, or the sea. Nomen familie.
‘Fas, faith, truth; in fas, in truth; also, strength, vigour; kerthes in fas,
walk in strength, or well in the faith.
‘Ford, a way; fos, a blow; fos, bragging; fos, fossa, a ditch, as an intrenchment.
‘Glyn, a woody valley. — Go, at, to, also little; go dol, a little vailey. —
Perhaps, Godolphin, means a little valley of springs.
‘Gethoam, fools; Christ cafos gothoam yn lan, Christ found fools in the
temple.
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‘Grew, a crane; Killigrew, the crane’s grave. Nomen familiae.
‘Grup; this Mr. Keigwin hath translated, to gripe; but it must signify, to
pierce; a grup yn empyn yon, will pierce even to the brains.
‘Guêr, green, lively, flourishing: I take Geare, by which name singly, many
places in this courty are called, to be no other than a corruption of this,
and to signify a green, flourishing, or fruitful place. Thus tregeare, the
green, or fruitful town.
‘Harlot; this word is generally used by way of reproach, to signify, rogue,
villain; though sometimes it be the same as arluah, a lord.
‘Keffyl, kevil, an horse; still retained in the names of several places.
‘Keverel, cheverel, a kid, or little goat; whence Keverel in St. Martin’s by
Loo, gave that for his arms.
‘Kopher, a coffer; kopher braz, a great coffer, a chest.
‘Mab lyen, a clerk, a clergyman; q.d. the son of Linen, I suppose from the
surplice.
*Ost, an army, an host. — Ost, Oster, an host, an hostess; ostel, an inn.
‘Les, lis, in the Armoric, is a court, hall, &c. Lhuyd’s Archeol. p. 206.
We often meet with this word in the names of our places; and I believe it
sometimes doth signify the same as in the Armoric, as les or liskard, which I
interpret the castle court, from its caistles, one of the ancient seats of
the Dukes of Cornwall.
‘Lesik, lesek, lessick, Mr. Gwawas interprets bushy; so trelesek, or
trelissick, in St. Earth, &c. the bushy town, from the Irish,
treilliseack, or else from ledsek, a heifer, the heifer’s town.
‘Pen, the head, pedn brauze, pedn maur, a great head, a jolt headed fellow;
pednouiz, heads of corn. — Note, that pen or pedn, in the British of all
countries, signifies an end, as well as a head; so kynz pedn zythynis, before
the end of the week; pedn viz, peda vlathan, the end of the month, the end of
the year. Pen, pedn, pl. pennou, doth often signity, a hill.
‘Pens, poyns, pl. poynsew, a pound in money, or twenty shillings.
‘Peth, pith, pl. pethou, pytho, riches, wealth. Nanpetho, the rich valley.
‘Pleg, plek, a plait, or fold, also, to bow down to any one.
‘Rachan, a rake.’
Here we wish to ask the author; whether, by the word rake, is to be
understood the instrument of that name employed in gardening, &c. or
whether a rakish fellow is meant? If the latter, it naturally reminds us of
the Syriac word, Raca, Matth, v. 22.
‘Rees, dho rees, to flit, or slide away, to rush out; hence our common word
and expression, comreesing, and the names of many of our places, as rees, in
St. Peran Sabulo, the fleeting (rather flitting ) ground; penrice, olim
penrees, head of the fleeting ground, trerees,
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as anciently written, the fleeting ground; resas, flowing, gushed out, rushed
out.
‘Stean, tin; stean coose, in St. Agnes, wood of tin; pulstean, a tin pit.
‘Soa, suet, tallow; soath, fat, green; nan soath, fat valley.
‘Tre, a town, village, dwelling, gentleman's seat: this is the most common
word prefixed to our names of places, and I believe is an original British
word; it signifies the same in Wales, Cornwall, and Armorica.
‘Trev, a house; trevisa, lower house; trevanion, town in a hollow plain.
‘Tron, a nose, from whence it comes to mean a promontory, a headland; in
Welsh, truyn, and still preserved by the French, who call it a copper nose;
thus, rouge trogne.
‘Vethe, the same as verth, green, Carveth, in St. Cuby, the green town.
‘Redruth, dre-druith, the Druid’s town, which it undoubtedly signifies from
its vicinity to Carn Brea, that celebrated station of Druidical superstition,
where at this time are to be seen a multifarious collection of monumental
Druidism.’
Thus we have endeavoured to assist the reader in forming a judgment of this
performance: we have extended the article, perhaps too far, at least for our
own confined limits; yet it feemed to require some particular attention. —
Deficiencies the work must have from its very nature. The Doctor has laboured
to supply them as far as he could, and he is certainly commendable for his
assiduity, and, we are inclined to think, for his exactness also. The
different uses to which his collections may be applied, must be left to those
who have greater leisure. Two remarks, among others, we particularly made as
we proceeded: — one is, that the collector does not point out derivations
from the old Greek, nor from the Hebrew. Latin resemblances are easily
perceived; we thought that we could, now and then, discern some of the Grecian
and Hebrew languages. — The other remark is, that from the few asterisms
which we obferved in the Vocabulary, and by which obsolete words are said to
be distinguished, we have been almost tempted to infer that the aggregate of
true ancient Cornish words is at least not very large; since we should
suppose, from the accounts before given, that the original language is now,
for the greater part, become wholly obselete.
The Philologist will, without doubt, reap advantages from these researches of
Dr. Pryce, who has laid a foundation on which some of his successors or
contemporaries may improve.
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