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... complete Works ) belong not to Grammar , but to Arts of higher or- der ; not to mention that all of them are but Sentences repeated . Now a SENTENCE ( c ) may be sketched in the following description - a com pound loquitur , ut in ...
... complete Works ) belong not to Grammar , but to Arts of higher or- der ; not to mention that all of them are but Sentences repeated . Now a SENTENCE ( c ) may be sketched in the following description - a com pound loquitur , ut in ...
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... complete a Sound ; others are Consonants , which without the help of Vowels have no express Vocality ; so likewise may we conceive as to the nature of Words . Some of them , like Vowels , are of themselves expressive , as is the case of ...
... complete a Sound ; others are Consonants , which without the help of Vowels have no express Vocality ; so likewise may we conceive as to the nature of Words . Some of them , like Vowels , are of themselves expressive , as is the case of ...
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... complete and intire Animal ) and as every SPECIES may be found whole and intire in each one of its Individuals ; ( for thus Socrates , Plato , and Xenophon , are each of them completely and distinctly a Man ) hence it is , that every ...
... complete and intire Animal ) and as every SPECIES may be found whole and intire in each one of its Individuals ; ( for thus Socrates , Plato , and Xenophon , are each of them completely and distinctly a Man ) hence it is , that every ...
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... complete the Sentence , say- ing Cicero is wise , Cicero was eloquent . On the contrary , when we say , Cicero writeth , Cicero walketh , in instances like these there is no such occasion , because the words ( writeth ) and ( walk- eth ) ...
... complete the Sentence , say- ing Cicero is wise , Cicero was eloquent . On the contrary , when we say , Cicero writeth , Cicero walketh , in instances like these there is no such occasion , because the words ( writeth ) and ( walk- eth ) ...
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... complete , whose Verbs have not TENSES , to mark these dis- tinctions . But we may go But we may go still further . Time past and future are both infinitely H extended . Ch . VI . extended . Hence it is that BOOK THE FIRST . 97.
... complete , whose Verbs have not TENSES , to mark these dis- tinctions . But we may go But we may go still further . Time past and future are both infinitely H extended . Ch . VI . extended . Hence it is that BOOK THE FIRST . 97.
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Adjectives Adverbs Æneid antient Aorist Apoll Aristotle Article Assertion Attri Attributes autem Boethius Cæsar called Cause CHAP character Cicero Conjunction denote Distinction enim etiam exist farther Form Future Genus Grammar Grammarians Greek guage hence Ideas infinite instances Intellect Interrogation kind Language Latin manner mean MIND Mode Name Nature neque Noun Number Objects Participles Past peculiar Philosophy Plato Power Prepositions present Priscian Pronoun proper quæ quod reason respect Sense Sentences shew Sound speaking Species Speech Subject Substances sunt suppose tence Tenses things Thou thro tion tive Truth UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR Verbs vero Verses VIII Words ἂν ἀπὸ γὰρ γὰς δὲ διὰ Ει εἶναι εἰς ἐκ ἐν ἐν τοῖς ἐν τῷ ἐξ ἐπὶ ἔχει ἦν καθ καὶ τὸ κατὰ μὲν μὴ ὅτι περὶ πρὸς τὰ τὰς τε τῇ τὴν τῆς τὸ δὲ τὸ μὲν τὸν τῷ τῶν ὡς
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