in these cases the party, the ftile, and the Ch. X. philofophy spoken of, receive a stamp and character from the perfons, whom they respect. Those perfons therefore perform the part of Attributes, that is stamp and characterize their respective Subjects. Hence then they actually pafs into Attributes, and affume, as fuch, the form of Adjectives. And thus it is we fay, the Pompeian party, the Ciceronian ftile, and the Socratic philofophy. It is in like manner for a Trumpet of Brass, we say a brazen Trumpet; for a Crown of Gold, a golden Crown, &c. Even Pronominal Subftantives admit the like mutation. Thus instead of saying, the Book of Me, of Thee, and of Him, we fay My Book, Thy Book, and His Book; instead of saying the Country of Us, of You, and of Them, we fay, Our Country, Your Country, and Their Country, which Words may be called fo many Pronominal Adjectives.

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Ch. X.

Ir has been obferved already, and must needs be obvious to all, that Adjectives, as marking Attributes, can have no fex (c). And yet their having terminations conformable to the fex, number, and cafe of their Subftantive, feems to have led grammarians into that strange abfurdity of ranging them with Nouns, and separating them from Verbs, tho' with respect to these they are perfectly homogeneous; with refpect to the others, quite contrary. They are homogeneous with respect to Verbs, as both forts denote Attributes; they are heterogeneous with respect to Nouns, as never properly denoting Subftances. But of this we have spoken before (d).

&c.

THE

(c) Sup. p. 171.

(d) Sup. C. VI. Note (a). See alfo C. III. p. 28,

THE Attributes hitherto treated, that Ch. X. is to fay, VERBS, PARTICIPLES, and ADJECTIVES, may be called ATTRIBUTIVES OF THE FIRST ORDER. The reafon of this name will be better understood, when we have more fully dif cuffed ATTRIBUTIVES OF THE SECOND ORDER, to which we now proceed in the following chapter.

СНАР.

Ch. XI.

CHA P. XI.

Concerning Attributives of the Second
Order.

A

S the Attributives hitherto mentioned denote the Attributes of Subftances, fo there is an inferior class of them, which denote the Attributes only of Attributes.

To explain by examples in either kind —when we say, Cicero and Pliny were both of them eloquent; Statius and Virgil both of them wrote; in these instances the Attributives, eloquent, and wrote, are immediately referable to the fubftantives, Cicero, Virgil, &c. As therefore denoting THE ATTRIBUTES OF SUBSTANCES, we call them ATTRIBUTIVES OF THE FIRST ORDER. But when we fay Pliny was moderately eloquent, but Cicero exceedingly eloquent; Statius wrote indifferently, but Virgil wrote admirably;

in these inftances, the Attributives, Mo- Ch. XI. derately, Exceedingly, Indifferently, Admirably, are not referable to Subftantives, but to other Attributives, that is, to the words, Eloquent, and Wrote. As therefore denoting Attributes of Attributes, we call them ATTRIBUTIVES OF THE SE

COND ORDER.

GRAMMARIANS have given them the Name of 'Exiguaтa, ADVERBIA, Ad- VERBS. And indeed if we take the word 'Pîμa, or, Verb, in its most comprehensive Signification, as including not only Verbs properly fo called, but also Participles and Adjectives [an usage, which may be juftified by the best authorities (a)] we shall

find

(a) Thus Ariftotle in his Treatife de Interpretatione, inftances "Ανθρωπος as a Noun, and Λευκος as a Verb. So Ammonius κατὰ τῦτο τὸ σημαινόμενον, τὸ μὲν ΚΑΛΟΣ » ΔΙΚΑΙΟΣ καὶ ὅσα τοιαῦτα--F Η ΜΑΤΑ λέγεσθαι καὶ ἐκ ΟΝΟΜΑΤΑ. According to this Signification (that is of denoting the Attributes of Substance Q

and