IJ2 Oft the Englijh Conjunction TOO, 



the object which it governs, or to which it marks fomething as 

 united or added, is not exprefled, that is, ft the conjunction 

 ought, upon the fame analogy, to be then accented. Were this 

 a proper occafion for fuch a difcuffion, it might even be mown, 

 that this analogy, in giving and with-holding the accent, is not 

 arbitrary, but founded on principle. 



MAY we not then conclude, with fome degree of probability, 

 that At the conjunction is not a different word from A the prepoji- 

 tion, or poft-fix, but only a fpecial application of it ? If this con- 

 clufion be admitted, it appears, that the conjunctive ufe of the 

 Latin Ad and the Englifh To illuftrates the nature and ufe of the 

 Greek conjunction A ; and that /'/, in its turn, ferves to illu- 

 ftrate and confirm the account that was given of them. All of 

 them reprefent the fame idea ; and, in the three taken together, 

 there appears a beautiful gradation in the application of it. 

 The Englim Too being applied as afimple intimation of union, is 

 accounted an additive only ; the Latin At, giving commonly an 

 emphatic notice of unexpected union, is considered as an adverfa- 

 tive ; and the Greek At, being applied in either way indifferently, 

 will appear additive or adverfative, according to the degree of ern- 

 phafis given to it, that is, according to the nature of the objects 

 which it unites. 



BUT what real knowledge have we gained in the progrefs of 

 this long enquiry ? The anfwer is, That the clajfiag difparate phe- 

 nomena, and referring them to one common principle, is held to 

 be fcience in Phyfics, and why fliould it not alfo be accounted 

 fcience in Grammar*? But, not to give an anfwer which may 



feem captious, we have feen 



i. THAT 



* THE obfervation in the text, although extremely common, appears to miftak* the 

 half of fcience for the whole. It is undoubtedly the part of fcience to inveftigate what, 

 in diflimilar objefts, is generic, or common to the whole : But to difcern and to mark 

 what \sfpecific, or peculiar to each, is nolefs the bufmefs of fcience ; and, 'as it is com- 

 monly of greater difficulty, fo it is at lead of equal importance. The author, therefore, 

 has attempted, whether fuccefsfully or not, to afcertain what is peculiar with regard ei- 

 ther to grammatical nature, or to Jignification, in the various applications of the words 

 he has difcuffed. 



