AS CONNECTED WITH THE Faculties of the Mind, AND AS APPLIED TO THINGS IN NATURE AND ART. SOCIA MENTIS LINGUA. anisl BY WILLIAM S. CARDELL. NEW-YORK. CHARLES WILEY, No. 3 WALL-STREET. 1825. Southern District of New-York, ss. B1825, in the forty-ninth year of the Independence of the United States E IT REMEMBERED, That on the sixteenth day of February, A. D. of America, William S Cardell, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit: "Essay on Language, as connected with the Faculties of the Mind, and as applied to things in Nature and Art. Socia mentis lingua. By William S. Cardell" In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned." And also to an Act, entitled "an Act, supplementary to an Act, entitled an Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints " JAMES DILL, Clerk of the Southern District of New-York. J. SEYMOUR, PRINTER, JOHN-STREET. Introductory dissertation, General view of language as intimately combined with Brief history of the progress of letters, from the time of General character of the English language, and its his- Philosophic exposition of speech in its practical adapta- ib. 13 24 34 39 44 ib. ib. 62 66 107 121 138 141 165 ib. 178 180 182 184 185 187 193 Specimens giving a slight view of the changes in language, 194 Examples of errors in practice, 203 |