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Author: Person of quality.
Title: Religion and language, as they are now in use through the chief regions of the world, both most briefly, and as faithfully discovered. / By a Person of quality.
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Print source: Religion and language, as they are now in use through the chief regions of the world, both most briefly, and as faithfully discovered. / By a Person of quality.
Person of quality.
London:: Printed for Samuel Speed; and are to be sold at the signe of the Rainbow neer the Inner Temple-gate in Fleet-street., 1664.
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A PREFACE TO THE Reader shewing the occasions the Author had to write the ensuing Discourse, and briefly describing the generall state of Pro∣testants in Europe for a supply to the same worke.
The Contents of the Chapters in this BOOKE.
OF THE ANCIENT Largenesse of the Greeke tongue.
CHAP. I.
Of the decaying of the ancient Greeke tongue, and of the present vulgar Greeke. CHAP. II.
Of the ancient largenesse of the Roman tongue in time of the Roman Empire. CHAP. III.
That the Roman tongue abolished not the vulgar lan∣guages, in the forraine Provinces of the Roman Empire. CHAP. IIII.
Of the beginning of the Italian, French, and Spanish lan∣guages. CHAP. V.
Objections touching the extent of the Latine tongue, and the beginning of the mentioned languages with their solutions. CHAP. VI.
Of the ancient languages of Italy, Spaine, France, and Afrique. CHAP. VII.
Of the largenesse of the Slavonish, Turkish, and Arabique languages. CHAP. VIII.
Of the Syriaque and Hebrew tongue. CHAP. IX.
Of the sundry parts of the World inhabited by Christians. CHAP. X.
Of the parts of the world possessed by Mahumetans. CHAP. XI.
Of the sundry regions of the World inhabited by Idolaters. CHAP. XII.
Of the Iewes dispersed in severall parts of the World. CHAP. XIII.
Of the Quantity and proportion of the parts of the earth possessed by the severall sorts of the above mentioned religion. CHAP. XIIII.
Of the divers sorts or sects of Chri∣stians in the world, and of their severall religions. And first of the Grecians. CHAP. XV.
Of the Assyrians or Melchites. CHAP. XVI.
Of the Georgians, Circassians and Mengrelians. CHAP. XVII.
Of the Muscovites and Russians. CHAP. XVIII.
Of the Nestorians. CHAP. XIX.
Of the Indians or Christians of S. Thomas. CHAP. XX.
Of the Iacobites. CHAP. XXI.
Of the Cophti or Christians in Aegypt. CHAP. XXII.
Of the Habassines. CHAP. XXIII.
Of the Armenians. CHAP. XXIIII.
Of the Maronites. CHAP. XXV.
Of the severall languages, wherein the Liturgies of Christians in severall parts of the World are celebrated. CHAP. XXVI.
Of the languages of the people of EVROPE. Collected out of IO. SCALIGER.