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Thanks to the Germans and Russians, our masters, to whose able and indefatigable exertions the general science of languages is peculiarly indebted for the great progress that it has lately made... (Duponceau, Transactions of the historical and literary Committee of the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia, for promoting useful knowledge. Philadelphia, 1819, p. XXXXII.)