Chap. II. Concerning the Analyzing of

Speech into its smallest

Chap. III. Concerning the several Species

of those smallest Parts p. 23

Chap. IV. Concerning Substantives, pro-

perly so called.

Chap. V. Concerning Substantives of the

Secondary Order.

-

p. 63

Chap. VI. Concerning Attributives, and

first concerning Verbs. p. 87

Chap. VII. Concerning Time and Tenses.

p. 100

Chap. VIII. Concerning Modes. p. 140

Chap. IX. Concerning Verbs, as to their

Species and other remaining

Chap. X. Concerning Participles and

Adjectives.

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p. 184

Chap. XI. Concerning Attributives of the

Secondary Order.

BOOK. II.

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p. 192

Chapter I. Concerning Definitives.

page 213

Chap. II. Concerning Connectives, and

first those called Conjunc-

- p. 237

Chap. III. Concerning those other Con-

nectives, called Prepositions.

p. 261

Chapter I. Introduction— -Division of

the Subject into its principal

Chap. II. Upon the Matter or common

Subject of Language. p. 316

Chap.

Chap. III. Upon the Form, or peculiar
Character of Language.

p. 327

Chap. IV. Concerning general or univer-

Chap. V. Subordination of Intelligence

-Difference of Ideas, both

in particular Men, and in

whole Nations - Different

Genius of different Lan-

guages-Character of the

English-the Oriental, the

Latin, and the Greek Lan-

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BOOK I.

CHAP. I.

INTRODUCTION.

Design of the Whole.

Ir Men by nature had been framed Ch. I. for Solitude, they had never felt an Impulse to converse one with another: And if, like lower Animals, they had been by nature irrational, they could not have recognized the proper Subjects of Discourse. Since SPEECH then is the joint Energie of our best and noblest Faculties, (that is to say, of our Rea

(a) See V. I. p. 147 to 169. See also Note xv. p. 292, and Note xix. p. 296, of the same Volume.