*The Latin A 5T, and the Creek AE. 133 



-I. THAT Prepofttions, in various languages, govern not only 

 nouns fubftantive, but alfo claufes of fentences beaiing the 

 form of propofitions ; but that fuch claufes are then equal to 

 nouns in their effeff, the abftracJ amount of them only being 

 regarded : And, confequently, that, by this feemlng change 

 of their regimen, no real change is made, either in the gram- 

 matical nature, or in the fignification of the prepofitions 

 themfelves. 



2. THAT, whether the object governed be a noun fubftantive, 

 or the amount of a propolition taken as a noun fubftantive, 

 that object is often not formally ftated, being obvious from 



1 the context ; but that neither does the formal ftatement, or 

 the omiflion of the governed object, make any change, either 

 in the grammatical nature, -or in the fignification *of the pre- 

 pofitions. 



3. THAT the fpecialities attending thefe prepofttions, when they 

 are called conjunctions, depend, in as far as the exprejfion is 

 concerned, on one or other, or both of the following cir- 

 cumftances, viz. the governed objects being involved in a propo- 



Jition, or its not being formally Jiated. 



4. THAT the adverfative appearance of fame of the conjunctions 

 called adverfative^ arifes folely from the emphatic meaning gi- 

 ven to them, when employed to mark the union of objects 



feemingly oppofite or incongruous ; but that, though they may 

 prefuppofe, they do not exprefs fuch incongruity or apparent 

 oppofition. 



. BY having mown that the conjunctions Too, At, and AI, are 

 the fame with the prepofitions To, Ad, and Af, we have difco- 

 vered their ftrict and proper fignification, and are thereby 

 enabled to annex to each of them a precife idea, inftead of 

 having a vague and confufed feeling of their effeft. 



Lq/ily, BY having afcertained the grammatical nature of certain 

 conjunctions, we have advanced one ftep towards the deve- 

 lopement of the nature of the Conjunction itfelf, I mean the 



part 



