n6 On the Englijh Conjunction 700, 



of TO, when the object governed by it is not exprefled, has 

 given rife to a difference in its orthography, the writing it 

 with two Os inftead of one. And the two words have ultimate- 

 ly come to be univerfally considered as different, infomuch that 

 even the fuppofition of their being the fame is not likely to be 

 liftened to without prejudice. 



IN the parent Saxon language, however, both ufes are com- 

 prifed under one form, to ; and, even in the Englifh, as late as 

 the reign of Queen ELIZABETH, they were both written with 

 one 0. This appears from the fpecimens prefixed to Dr JOHN- 

 SON'S Dictionary, as a hiftory of our language previous to that 

 period. Thus, Sir THOMAS MORE, fpeaking of fortune and 

 one of her quondam favourites, 



' She glydeth from hym, and her giftes TO ; 

 ' And he her curfeth, as other fooles do." 



And to the accented pronunciation of TO, when its object is 

 not exprefled, that is, by no means, a fufficient reafon, either 

 for claffing or for writing it differently, being a circumftance 

 common to it with every prepofition whatfoever. All of them, 

 when their objects are expreffed, may be accented or not accent- 

 ed, according to the meaning, or fhade of meaning, intended 

 to be conveyed. But, when their objects are not exprefled, they 

 are commonly * accented : " To fland by" " to come e," ' to 

 " run ///," " to rum out" &c. 



FROM thefe obfervations, it mould feem, that the word TOO, 

 though generally confidered as different, and though ranked by 

 grammarians in a different clafs of the parts of fpeech, is really 

 the fame with the prepofition TO, in its fpecial meaning of ad- 

 ditional to. This has been fhown from the famenefs of their 

 meaning and ejfecj^ as well as of their original orthography, and 



the 



* IN facl: they are always accented, though their accent may fometimes be obfcured 

 by an equal or fuperior accent given to an adjoining word, as, " He did not walk in,. 

 * hut rujhtf in," 



