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Parro. c We fhall therefore hazard the ufe of new words when 

 necefTary, and by your authority.' 



And where the fame necelTity, arifmg from the fame fource, ex- 

 ifts, the lame liberty is to be taken. And as Cicero, on this point, 

 is an unexceptionable authority, let us examine his practice, to fee to 

 what degree it may be carried. The word QuaTttas, derived from 

 ^uak, is now familiarized to the ear. The fir ft boldnefs of this 

 derivative is only perceived by reflection ; but its degree will (hike us 

 more immediately, if we take the Engliih words ivbnt, or fitch (as), 

 which anfwerto the Latin pronominal adjective S$uale 9 and add one 

 of the fubltantive terminations [hood] or [nefs] to either, to make 

 a philofophical term of it. I alk the fevere grammarians, who 

 proteft again ft the clafs of new derivatives in the philofophical 

 language of Linnaeus, to produce among them a bolder example of 

 the creation of anew term. 



And by the fame authority, we may defend his impofing new 

 fijmifications on old words ; for in a few lines after the conclu- 

 fion of the extract, there occurs a liberty of this kind, and as re- 

 markable as the former ; for Cicero there gives a new fenfe to the 

 pronominal adjective %uale 9 in correfpondence to that of his new de- 

 rivative Qualitas ; ufmg it fubftantively to fignify any being or thing, 

 as compounded of fubftance and accident, or matter and qualities : 

 " Et itaefFeci quae appellant qualia ; e quibus in omni natura co- 

 '* haerente, et continuata cum omnibus fuis partibus, effectum effe 

 " mundum." 



It deferves to be remarked refpecting thefe innovations, that 

 this aiTertion of the legitimacy of the practice in all like cafes is 

 here put by Cicero into the mouth of Varro, the greateit critic and 

 grammarian of the Auguflan age; who wrote on the Latin lan- 

 guage, and addrefted his works to Cicero himfelf. 



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