. An essay upon literature: or, An enquiry into the antiquity and original of letters; proving that the two tables, written by the finger of God in Mount Sinai, was the first writing in the world, and that all other alphabets derive from the Hebrew ; with a short view of the methods made use of by the antients to supply the want of letters before, and improve the use of them, after they were known . A N ESSAY On the Original of Literature, &c. T is fomething ftrange, that amongthe abundance of Writers in theWorld, and the multitude of Au-thors who have publinYd their La-bours for the inftrudti
. An essay upon literature: or, An enquiry into the antiquity and original of letters; proving that the two tables, written by the finger of God in Mount Sinai, was the first writing in the world, and that all other alphabets derive from the Hebrew ; with a short view of the methods made use of by the antients to supply the want of letters before, and improve the use of them, after they were known . A N ESSAY On the Original of Literature, &c. T is fomething ftrange, that amongthe abundance of Writers in theWorld, and the multitude of Au-thors who have publinYd their La-bours for the inftrudtion of Man-kind in this Age, not one has thought itworth while to give any lignificant Accountof the Art by which all their Works are per-formd -, and by which indeed all manner ofScience is conveyd from Age to Age, and hand-ed down from our Anceftors to this Day ^ Imean that of Writing,. B Print- Oil Printing and the Knowledge of Typesimprefling their Forms on Paper by Punction,or the work of an Engine (for fab is tb e Print-ing-Pre fs) is a Modern Invention born of Yef-terday •, and bow ever advantageous to the World,is what the World it feems, made fhift with-out, and was wholly ignorant of for aboveSoooYears, and it is not yet full 300 Years old ^that Art being the Invention of a Soldier, asthat of Gunpowder and Guns was cf a Scholar;the Dutcb affirming that. Lawrenths Cojterus, ofHarlem, was the firfb Author of Printing-, tho*others fay, that John Fanjius of Mentz. inveatedit, and from thence was taken for a Conjurer,and gave Birth to the Stories we have goingunder the Name of the Famous Doctor FauJIus. But Writing, is of a very ancientDate, and has been the moft ufeful of allArts id the World, as it has been the pre-ferver of Knowledge, and has handed down thefirft Principles of Science in the WTorld, fromone Generation to another-3 by which we,to thisDay ftand
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