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THE

ACCOMPLISHED TUTOR.

CHAP. I.

OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR.

SECT. I.

OF THE DIVISION AND SOUND OF LETTERS.

IN the early ages of antiquity, before alphabets were invented, mankind, fenfible of their want of fome means of> recording biftorical events and fcientifical difcoveries, had re-i courfe to various arts for thefe purposes; the first of which› was painting. That partiality for pictures, so evident in all ages and countries, afforded the ancients a method of perpetuating their tranfactions. To commemorate that one man had killed another, they painted the figure of a dead man, with another man standing over him, having an hoftile weapon in his hand. On the firft discovery of America, this was the only kind of writing ufed by the Mexicans.

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The e first improvement made by our ancestors in the art of writing (if it might then be called an art) was by the intro. duction of hieroglyphical characters. Thefe confifted of

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