Logopandecteision

Logopandecteision or an Introduction to the Universal Language . . . was published in quarto in 1653 . . . Urquhart's plan of an universal language is rather indicated than fully developed in the first book of his work entitled Neaudethaumata or Wonders of the New Speech ; and the reader will scarcely regret that the subject is in a great measure abandoned in the remaining books which are chiefly occupied with domestic details exhibiting a lively picture of the times drawn by the pencil of no unskilful limner. The subject of the different books is disclosed by their titles-Chrestasebeia or the Impious Dealing of Creditors-Cleronomaporia or the Intricacy of a Distressed Successor or Apparent Heir-Chryseomystes or the Covetous Preacher-Neleodicastes or the Pitiless Judge-and Philoponauxesis or Furtherance of Industry. These topics are illustrated by a great variety of personal anecdotes and local notices ; and the work which may be truly described as instructive and entertaining concludes with a [petition] . . . or 'proquiritations' upon the State. -- Sylvester Douglas Sterling The Works of Sir Thomas Urquhart (1834). p. xx. • 2023 Hardcover Edition.