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impollible

r~parale

Ibem. as to creale or anoihilate the

{everal fublt.llees lhat polf<fs

th~fe

auributes. But al·

thougb

are thus eircumfcribed as tO our bodily powcrs,

the mind admits not of fueh IlIuitatioo; but eJO Wilh

the utmOa facilityCeparate every quality froOl every objetl

wh¡ttver, anJ coolider them apan; as,

c%llr

Wilhout

fuptrlciu, fuperlcia witboutfo/idil},

()(

wlighl

without

7Ilal/e,',

&~,

and, wheo thus Ceparated, apply them tO

wbit objeéls, and io \Vhat m:lOoer, it pleares. lo this

maooer the minJ abaritls thofe amibutes which denote

""tian!

energia

from their

agml!

cntrgiurJ,

io the

fame way as it abllratls

qua/ilia

from their

fubjlanm.

Aod it is theCe eoergics lhus lbftralled, whieh form tbat

{pecies of words eaJled

wrb,;

in Ihe fame maooer as

thofe anributes whieh deoote

quanliliu

aod

qaa/ilia

abllr.éled from tbeir oecelfary fubllaoces, form

adjdliva,

1Ous, tbe term

lOwall,

denotes a particular

merKY

eonfidered perfetlly apan from every

emrgiur,

in the

{.me maooer as the word

good

deootes a cmaio

qua/il}

wilbol1t regard to aoy particular

fuhflaNu,

Here ¡heo we difeover a mor\' elfeoti.1 difl'ereoee be·

tween the order of nature, aod that reprereotation of it

which man makes by means of words. For io

nolure,

every

quaüty mull at aJl times be uoited \Vith Come fubaaoce,

Dor can ever be exhibited Cepante from it; but in

/all'

guage,

every auributive, if it be confidered at all, mul[

be feparated from tbe objeft to which itoaturally belongs.

Heocewe fec ¡be reafoo wby, io laoguage, every

mergy

and

coergizer, DOt ooly

mOJ

be eoofidered feparately, but

1JIUfl

{or ever remaio feparate, unlefs tbey be united by

fome other power thln what is necdfarily tbeir owo. For

tbe a!tribute

low,ite,

eao

more be uoited

t.o

mon

its

proper energizer, than a molÍoo could eommeoce with·

out a caufe; aod till this attribute is uoited to its proper

coergizer, it mull remaio io a great meaCure dead aod io·

eflicaciou! in laoguage.-To eOlllmuoicate life and eoer'

gy, tberefore, to tbis ioen attribute, it mufl be uoited to

in proper eDergizer; whieh can ooly be effetled by the

belp of an alfenioo of the fpeaker himCelf; which, may

coofidered as tbe fallle witb regard to laoguage, as

!ife is io the oatural world.

is evideot that, by the aJliflaoce of ao af!'enioo, tbe

fpeaker is eoabled to write aoy eoergy

aoy panicular

energizer, aod tbus, withoul makiog aoy chaoge upoo the

attribute it(elf, reprefeot a variety of cbaDgei produeed

UpOA other bodies by itl meaos,-Tbus, if I Cay,

wrile,

what do

more thao alfert that

myCelf am polfelfed

that particular attribute deooted by the verb

10 'lJIrilt

fay,

rou writt,

Ht 'lJIriltl,

what do

than alfert that another perCoo is pof!'elfed of that pani·

(ular anribpte or eDergy ?-Ir 1 fay,

DIO

write,

1 ooly alferl that the Came attribute was polfelfed at aoo·

Iher time, by [he Carne per(oo, as before.

Heoe~

there·

fore, by the help of this alfertioo of the fpeaker, we are

cnabled to joio this particular attribute

many

difl'ereot eoergizers, as well as to repreCent there

difl'ereDt combinatioos as occurriog at maoy di/J'c·

reot times;

that the fame atribute OIay thus be mace

appear uoder a great many differeot circumllances, aod

exhibit a great variety of ehanges upoo other objetls, al·

olhougb i((dC remajps uDchaDged

the fevml variations

whieh we pmeive, ooly reldliog

the objdls lVilit

whieh it is eombined, Or the meaos by wJúch that union

is drdleJ,-In Ihc Came maooer il ofteo happeos, th¿t

any objca in nalure, a houfe for example, DI'y appear

extremely difl'eren[ IVheoviewld from dlflerent filuauons.

Fl om Ihe inlimate coooetlioo that takes place betlVeeo

the eocrgy, Ihe eoergizer, the alfenion, aod time, theCe

feyeral aceelfories haye beco eoofidered as

efi~ntial

pans

of the verb; and therefore fome grammariaos have de6.

oed a verb

word daroling an (nerg}, wilh /illlC,

ond an a.fferlion,

But if we

wer~

thus to coofound thiogs

wi[h thoCe IVbieh may neeelfarily aceompaoy them, we

eould never arrive al a clear perception of aoy fubjeé!.

whatever. But not tO eoter ioto the argumeots tbat

might be produced to fhew the impropriety of this defi.

niuoo, we fhall ooly ob(erve, that by the uoiverCal ac.

koolVlcdgmeot of all gramlllariaos this cannot be jul!.

For they unaoimoufiy agree, that the

injillitive ,,,,d,

not ooly

o port

of every verb, bUI the

lIIoJI

cff:ntial

paTt;

as it forms the roOt from whieh all tbe other pans

are derived. But as this mode neither deootes either

tilDe or an alfertion, it is evidem that thefe, eveo by thei,

owo aekoowledgment, can be at bell but aceelfories, aod

not elfenlial pans of [he verbo

From theCe .rgumeots, therefore, we mul[ eooelude, that

the verb ¡tfelf admits of

other varialÍons but thoCe al.

ready [akeo ootÍee of;-that before it cao produce ¡oy

atlive effetl io Iaoguage, like every other attribute, it

mul[ be uoited to fome proper eoergizer ;-tbat this uni.

io laoguage eao never be effetled but by meaos of ao

exertion of the vital powers of the fpeaku, wh.ereby he

eilher publifhes his pereeptioo thereof, or bis will that it

fhould be ;-aod that this uoioo may be repreCeoted as ta.

kiog place at all the differeot times that cao be afligoed.

TheCe, thercfore, are eaeh. of them oeeelfary accompaoi.

meots of a verb, but eaeh of them Ceparate and diflinél

io their owo nature, oot noly from this verb, but frolTl

ooe aoother; and it becomes ao elfential part of the fyo.

tax of every laoguage, to confider the various ways in

whieh theCe cao be eombined aod a!fetl one aoother."""

Nay, fo intimate has this eonneaioo beeo thought to be

by fome, that the contrivers of eenaio laoguages havo

arraoged them uoder pankular e1alJ'es, for lhe fake of

difliotloefs and preeifioo.- The form whieh a verb alfu_

med , wheo thus varied io all the ways that their pUlicu,

lar laoguage would admit of, \Vas ealled lhe CONJUGA–

TI oNof tbe verb; the ftveral parts of

which

may be

uodedlood froOl the followiog Iketch.

When the verb is coofidcred under the compouod forllr

of whieh we now Cpeak, it can admit of variations ehier.

Iy io lhree reCpetls. For, firfl, fuppofing the

al/ribu/e,

the

tnergi:er,

and tbe

IÍ/H'

wheo that amibute was ex–

ened by the energizer, tO be the fame; a variation may'

be oeeafiooed by a change beiog produeed io the

pmep..

lion

vo/ilion

of the fpeakcr, (which, for brevity, we'

will call tbe

affirtion,)

as io theCe examples:

wrile,'

SCR IBO;

IIIIP}wril',

SCRIBAM¡

do)'oI/ 1vri/t,

SCRI.

BE. The variatioos produeed by Ihis means have becn'

c.llIed MonES. Sceoodly, Suppofiog lhe

nl/ribu/e,

the.

6nergiu r,

and lhe

afer/ion,

be the fame ; a chang.:,

may be produ,ed jn (he

I/l/tr,

as in th fe

c~(JOlples:

ti,.

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