Excerpt from Remains of Japhet: Being Historical Enquiries Into the Affinity and Origin of the European Languages
The task I set myself was certainly a very hard one; yet I could not give it up, however unequal to such an undertaking ; as I thought the labours of ingenious men, who had already made some advances in these studies, and several hints from the ancients, properly connected, with an attentive perseverance on my part, might enable me to proceed upon a plan, in this enquiry, not laid down before.
In this, my Lord, I think I have succeeded; yet I do not make it public without great diffidence: nor should I have been well able to differ from the methods of former authors, in this research, if I had not acquired some knowledge of the languages, which, in the course of the work, I have endeavoured to prove, were the very first in Europe, after the general deluge.
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