WORDS OR DISCOURSE

THE most general name for those external expressions, whereby men do make known their thoughts to one another,* is DI∣SCOURSE, Commune, Communication, Parly, Talk, Colloquie, Tract, Treatise, handle, Stile.

To which may be annexed that particular way of discourse, most in use, namely by articulate voice and words, called LANGUAGE, Tongue, Speech, Linguist, dialect.

The several things and notions belonging to discourse, may be distribu∣ted into such as do concern either the

• Parts of it; or those primary ingredients of which it consists, whether
  • More Simple; stiled ELEMENTS. I
  • Less Simple; WORDS. II
• Kinds of it; or those secondary parts belonging to it, whether such as are
  • Proper, to
    • GRAMMAR. III.
      • COMPLEX OR COMPOUND SPEECH . III.
    • LOGIC. IV.
      • LOGIC OF SPEECH. IV
  • COMMON TO BOTH. V
• MODES of it. VI