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James Harris (grammarian)
English politician and grammarian, 1709–1780 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the American linguist, see James W. Harris.
James Harris, FRS (24 July 1709 – 22 December 1780) was an English politician and grammarian. He was the author of Hermes, a philosophical inquiry concerning universal grammar (1751).
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