RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. 'H Tooke has shown one chief object of language is promptness of'. CUL-DAR91.13. Transcribed by John van Wyhe. (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2021. RN1
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Tooke, John Horne, Epea Pteroenta, or the Diversions of Purley.
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H. Tooke has shown one chief object of language is promptness of consequence newer languages become corrupt & whole classes of words are abbreviations he thus derives from nouns & verbs—
So that most every language shows traces of anterior state??
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