Illustration] Having discussed the subject of pronunciation very largely in the two preceding Dissertations, I shall now examin the use of words in the construction of sentences.
As the innovation is great and extends to a multitude of words, it is necessary, before we embrace the practice in its utmost latitude, to examin into its propriety and consequences.
And if we should thoroughly examin any of the present languages of the world, we should probably find that the roots of the most copious do not amount to more than that number.
But when we examin further, and find many, perhaps a hundred words or more, common to all these languages, the evidence of their common origin becomes irresistible.
I have been at the pains to examin a great number of radical words in the Danish, and find the most of them, amounting to more than four hundred, very little different from the English.
Having laid down some general rules reflecting pronunciation, I proceed to examin local differences, and the most material points of controversy on this subject.
To learn the English language in its purity, it is necessary to examinand compare the best authors from Chaucer to the present time.
If we examin the structure of any language, we shall find a certain principle of analogy running through the whole.
I have no system of my own to offer; my sole design is to explain what I suppose to be authorities, superior to all private opinions, and to examin local dialects by those authorities.
Illustration] From a general history of the English language, and some remarks upon that subject, I proceed to examin its elements, or the powers of the letters which compose our alphabet.
But let us examin whether the practice I am censuring is general or not; for if not, it cannot come within Horace's rule.
Before yu buy the hoss yu speak ov, look him over cluss, but don't examin him much afterward, for fear yu may cum across sumthing that yu are looking after.
Examin hiz ears; see that he haz got tew ears, and pound a tin pan cluss to him, to find out whether hiz hearing iz good.
My friend, did yu ever examin the fragrant pole kat clussly?
He then proceeded further to examin the Nature of Bodies in this Sublunary World, viz.
Heaviness or Lightness; he proceeded to consider the Nature of these two Properties, and to examin whether they did belong to Body quatenus Body, or else to some other Quality superadded to Body.
But if we examinthe men who compose these legislatures, we shall find that wrong measures generally proceed from ignorance either in the men themselves, or in their constituents.
This passed about three feet from its center, was opened to the former surface of earth, and was wide enough for a man to walk thro and examin its sides.
Few people examin into the propriety of particular usages or laws; or if they examin, few indeed are capable of comprehending their propriety.
There being one of these in my neighborhood, I wished to satisfy myself whether any, and which of these opinions were just; for this purpose I determined to open and examin it thoroughly.
Wil they neverexamin the grounds of receeved opinions?
That he went to Foxford to examin the said Crawford, but he went out of the way so that the said Glover could not see him, but left a Summons at his house for his appearing at Gallway the Munday following.
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