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    «* STILL * & * AVfc TO PRAtSfc , TIT NOT AFRAID TO BLAME . " ' . /¦ 3 Pop * #

    Art . I . The Arabick Alphabet ; ory ^ 4 rc £ 0 $ ^ Introduction to Mm Reading ofArabick ) for the Use of Hebrew Students * Newcastle ^ , printed and sold : sold also by Lunn London * 1809 . ' iSSmo-PP . 20 . . ^ . '

    Every man who applies himself to the study of a language or a science , cannot but feel the importance of having its elements presented to him in as simple a form as possible : and he particularly welcomes this kind of assistance 5 if the undertaking on which he has entered is attended with more than usual difficulty , in con .

    sequence of the number , novelty or apparent complexity of the objects whi ^ h it embraces * The knowledge and the skill of those who have gone before him in the samo road , may smooth hjs path and ^ bridge his toil : . by means of analysis and methodical arrangement , his memory may be reur clefed quicker and more tenacious , his judgment clearer and more discriminating .

    It is precisely this service which the learned editor of Dawe s Mi $ < - xtcllanea Criticd * has here performed for those Hebrew students , who are desirous of gaining an acquaintance with Arabick , Speaking from personal &nd recent experience , he says , u The first difficulty which a learner has to encounter , ; is the ka \ Hig apparentl y * four

    alpha-* Dr . Burgess , bishop i 6 f St . Pavid'i .

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    bets to learn , instead of one / By four alphabets , he means , the initial letters , the middle letters ^ the iinal -letters with ligature , an 4 the final letters without ligature . To remove this difficulty , he separates the alphabet into its component parts , gives the learner for his first lesson the seventeen primary figures , which coataifi the substance of the whole alphabet , and then shows hina the ori » gin of the middle and fmal letters from the initial . ,

    Another difficulty * the idiflfer * . ence between the order of the letters in the Arabick alphabet and that of the tlebre ^ v , he tries to reduce by pointing out the de ^ pendence of t ^ he similar letters QO the primary .

    The worthy prelate has executed his design with much care ^ . nd success : nor do we hesitate to affirm , that his tables and remarks are admirably calculated to introduce the student to the rudiments of Arabick , and to prepare him fpr reading with advantage . the grammar by Erpenius . It would be unjust to conclude this article without paying out tribute of gratitude to the rig ht

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1810, page 136, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2402/page/32/