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pared by missionaries, about four ou five generations ago, which have become in a great part antiquated.
Words and their uses arise to meet some wants of the time; they disappear, when no longer needed.
From all these circumstances it results, that this elementary work will be framed from no abundant materials; and, therefore, not only it will be of more difficult execution, but also, as a natural consequence, not entirely satisfactory. Notwithstanding, we hope to be able to avoid every error in the statement of principles and their dependent facts.
THE BRASILIAN LANGUAGE AND ITS POSITION
8.—The Brazilian language exhibits itself under an aspect, quite uncultivated. The people, who speak it, do not possess, at the best, the knowledge of the aphabetic signs; they are, simply, savages, the most complete type of human ignorance.
Nevertheless, by studying all the organism or
