the human mind in all its various appearances, from the rudest to the most cultivated state: and the man of taste will undoubtedly be pleased to unlock the stores of native genius, and to gather the flowers of unreftrained and luxuriant fancy *. * My professional studies having wholly engaged my attention, and induced me not only to abandon oriental literature, but even to efface, as far as poffible, the very traces of it from my memory, I committed the conduct and revisal of this edition of my Grammar, and the compofition of the Index to Mr. Richardson, in whose skill I have a perfect confidence, and from whofe application to the castern languages, I have hopes that the learned world will reap no fmall advantage. |