.catachresis, 615; quoted also, 82, 437*, 480, 482, Otis, James, referred to, 553. 502, 500, 549, 632, 634, 639. Mitford on the spelling of English, 227. Mixed origin of words, 419. Mode defined, indicative, subjunctive, potential, Ottava rima, 671. Ou in English, 214. imperative, infinitive, 332; in Anglo-Saxon, Pair-words, see Reduplicate forms. infinitive, 335; number possible, 336; number Paley quoted, 502, 507. in foreign tongues, 336; of syllogism, 466. Mongolian, words from, 418. Montgomery quoted, 497. Months, naines of, 433. Moore quoted, 615, 622, 625, 643, 644, C53. More quoted, 81. Morell, analysis of simple sentence, 535. Murray on possessives, 302; on conjunctions, Musical composition, elements of, 620. Napoleon, pronunciation of, 434; quoted, 597. Narration, 614. Niebuhr, office of philology, 20, 21. Parable, 5.9. Paragoge, 160. Participials, nouns, 241; verb, 337, 338, 330 Parts of speech, 240, 241, 460+. Patronymics, 423, 424. Penn quoted, 492. Percival, illusive etymologies, 422. Period, 539, 613, 685. Peroration, 614. Persian numerals, 15, 31, 35; comparison in, 272; Person, in pronouns, 288, 283, 291, 292; Latham Nominative case, 255; rules for syntax of, 451; Personification, 602. collocation of, 483. Norman-French, see French. Perspicuity, 609-611. Norse, 55; article, 287; reflective, 303; partici- Philological Society's Transactions quoted, 502. ples, 338; adverbs, 360; roots, BSG. North American Review quoted, 559. Norwegian, 55. Notional words, 241, 243, 265, 278, 318. Noun, etymology of, 243-264; defined, 210, 241, Nuces philosophica quoted, 490, 506. Number defined, 250; plural, how formed, 251; Phoenician, 29; alphabet, 215; words from, 415, Phonetic elements in English, table of, 118-122, Phonology, 108-175; comparative, 128-131. Picture writing, 215. Piers Plowman, use of worth, 346. double forms of plural, 252; foreign forms, Pinkerton, improvement of English euphony, 165 pounds, proper names, titles, 251; in ancient Pitt, eloquence of, 559. languages, 255; dual, 255; of verbs in En-Plato on thought and speech, 239. Platt Deutsch, 54. Pleonasm, 480, 612. Pliny, origin of alphabet, 218. Polish, 57; euphony of, 161; words from, 418; Polynesian, 27; words from, 418. Pope, veneration of old authors, 227; use of me. Orthoepy defined, 168; in relation to phonetic epy, 178; a perfect system, 179, 180; ortho- Pracrit, 34. graphical forms in English, 177-238; ortho- Predicables, 443. graphical expedients, 222; in what it consists, Predicate, 239, 449-451, 479, 535. 223; diversities in, 224; inconsistencies in, Predicative combination, 532. 225; reformation of, 226, 227; doubtful, 228; Prefixes, Teutonic, 391; Latin, 396, 404; Roman- ic, 405; Greek, 396, 412; Hebrew and Chaldaic, Preposition, 240, 241, 371, 462; list of, 372; Prescott quoted, 480. Present tense, 326; participle, 337, 338. Priestly, of possessives, 30. Priscian, of modes, 336. Pritchard, origin of Celts, 46. Pronomen reverentiæ, 299, 301, 499. Pronoun, 240, 241, 288, 461; Becker's view, 288;| Rhetorical forms, definition, 552, 564; relation to Rhombic stanza, 675. Rhyme, 623, 632; imperfect, 624; single, double, classification, 289; extent, 290; value, 291; Richardson, derivation of reduplicate forms, 389. for singular, 297; third personal, 300; its, his- Rolf, 43. tory of, 300; German usage, 301; possessives, Rollo, 43. 302; with self, 303-306; demonstratives, 307, Romaic, relation to Greek, 10, 45. 308; relatives, 309-311; interrogatives, 312, Roman alphabet, 181, 215, 219. 313; adjective, 314; reciprocal, 315; indeterm- Romanic, origin of, 9, 10; portion of English, 493; of personal pronouns, 499; of expletive, Romaunt, see Provençal. 499; pronomen reverentiæ, 409; of reflectives, Rush, classification of sounds, 117, 125. 500; of demonstratives, 501; of relative, 502; Ruskin quoted, 82, 606. of interrogative, 503; of indeterminates, 504; Russian, origin of, 9, 56; numerals, etc., 14, 15; Pronunciation, 173, 174; causes of incorrect, 174;| See Surnames. sounds in, 180; interrogative, 313; modes in, Sanscrit dead, 10; tables of words from, 14, 15; Proposition, 239, 449-451; different kinds of, 452; ments, 464; contraries, sub-contraries, subal-Saxon, Low, pair-words, £89. terns,contradictories, 455; development of, 539. Saxon, Old, 54; reflective in, 303; adjective pro- Prosody, 617. Prosthesis, 160. Prosopopeia, 602. nouns, 314; participle, 333; impersonal verbe, Saxon, semi-, 76, 79. Saxons, 64, 66. Scandinavian, 55, 360, 500. Schiller, 23. Schlegel, A. W. von, classification of languages, Schleusner, of x ipes, 8. Scott, Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman contrast- Scottish dialect, 85, 87; article, 285; interroga. Self, 303-306; syntax of, 500. Quintilian on orthography and pronunciation, Semicolon, 683. 168. Relational words, 241, 278, 288, 307, 318, 371, 374, Relatives, 300, 310; syntax of, 502; use of article Sense of right essential to the orator, 558; good, Sentences, 476; simple, syntax of, 531-535; com. Shakspeare, language in the age of, 3; mono- Shemitic, 26, 29, 30, 383, 415–417. Rhetoric, relation to logic, 439; defined, 552. See Sidney, Sir Philip, quoted, 82, 305, 316, 373, 502 Silent letters, 231. Simile, 606. Simple apprehension, 464. Smith, Sidney, quoted, 615. Sonants, 115, 121. Sorites, 470. Sound, organs of, 109; vowel, how produced, stantive, 481-489; adjective, 490-498; pro- 111; articulate, 113; sharp, flat, aspirate, vo- Syriac, 29; interjections, 381; elements of En- South quoted, 683. Southern Counties, dialects of, 90. Southey quoted, 499, 591. Southgate quoted, 615. glish, 383; proper names, 434. Tacitus, of the Angli, 67; quoted, 590. Spanish, 39, 98; article, 287; pronoun, 298; prep-Task-poetry, 631. ositions, 373; element of English, 383, 405, 414, 418, 420, 422; proper names, 434. Species, 443, 444. Spectator, the, quoted, 260, 498, 597 Speech, parts of, 239. Spenser, Edmund, quoted, 81, 504, 530; his or- Spondee, 622. Stanza, 662+. Stephens, J. L., quoted, 607. Sterne on punctuation, 681. Tautology, 612. Taylor, Isaac, quoted, 543. Tennyson quoted, 645, 66, 648, 604, 666. Teutonic tongues, 48-54; elements of English, Stoddart, Sir J., on adverbs, 361; on conjunc- reduplicate forms, 389; primary derivatives, tions, 378; reduplicate forms, 389. Stoics, of prepositions, 371. Strong verbs, 319. Subalterns, 455. Sub-contraries, 455. Subject, 239, 449, 450, 451; grammatical and leg- ical, 478, 535. Subjunctive pronouns, 311; mode, 332. Subordinate sentences, 380, 538, 539. Substantive (see Noun); verb, 316, 347; syntax Tooke, Horne, of parts of speech, 242; of conjunc- Subtonic sounds, 117. Suffixes, Teutonic, 390, 419; Latin, 396, 402, 419; tions, 378, 379. Townsend, C., eloquence of, 560. Romanic, 405; Greek, 396, 411; Hebrew and Trigraph, 182. Surnames, origin of, 424; nicknames, 424; lo- Troubadours, 43. cal, 425; from occupations, 426; from office, Trouveres, 43. 427; from personal qualities, 428; from Chris- Tuckerman quoted, 238, 513. from social relations, 431; from virtues, 432; Tusser quoted, 627, 628. miscellaneous, 433; history of, in various lan- Tyndall, use of atone, 395. Surrey quoted, 81, 359. U, sound in English, 214. Swedish, 55; comparison in, 272; pronoun, 296, Usage, rules for, 5.4. Swift quoted, 488. Syllogism, 464; defined, terms in, propositions Syncope, 160. Synecdoche, 608. Verb defined, 240, 241, 317, 461; substantive, Syntax, 476-551; definitions, 476–480; of sub- tive, modal, partitive, intransitive, active for passive, 511; collocation, 512; substantive Whewell, composite nature of English, 98; quo 517; subjunctive, 518; tenses, 519: participles, Whipple quoted, 577. 520, 521; special uses illustrated, 522. Verbosity, 612. Verse, 621. Virgil quoted, 618. Vision, 593. Vocal sounds, 118 Voice, 320. Voltaire, 601. Vortigern, 64 Wicklyffe quoted, 81; use of herun, ouren, 296 ; Wilberforce, oratory of, 554. Will, use of, 328. Will necessary to the orator, 563. Willis, Prof., experiments on sound, 166. Vowels, how produced, 111; discussed, 182; vow- Wiseman, of possessives, 302. W, sound of, in English, 214. Withington quoted, 615. Walker, continuous and explosive sounds, 116; Woolsey, President, on Romanic languages, 70. Wallachian, 41. Wallis, of possessives, 302; of auxiliaries, 343, Watts, Dr., quoted, 302, 676. Watts, T., prospects of English, 105. Weak verbs, 319. Webster, D., quoted, 488, 550, 576, 580, 508. Welsh numerals, 15; described, 61; sounds in, Words, onomatopoetic, 3; the daughters of men, Wordsworth quoted, 282, 525, 615. Y, peculiar sound of, in English, 214. Young, use of first-last, 394; quoted, 634 137; words from, 418; proper names, 424, 434. Zend numerals, 15; described, 35; sounds in Western Counties, dialects of, 91. 129. Whately, of Horne Tooke, 242; participles, 338; Zeugma, 480. Errata. Cerund, 515, 589. Supine, 539. THE END. |