H4 On the Engli/h Conjunction TOO, 



his departure ; in the latter, it is prefixed to a nominative and a 

 verb he departed. But even the nominative and verb thus ap- 

 plied do not conSlitute a proposition ; they do not contain an in- 

 dependent aSTertion > they exprefs no more than a fpecifying 

 circumftance annexed to the other proposition, " I came ;" and, 

 whenever they are rightly apprehended by the mind, they are 

 ftript of their propofitionary form, and Slated abJlraElly under a 

 new phafis his departure. Thus confidered, then, the two pro- 

 pofitions are fynonymous in every refpect, excepting the apparent 

 grammatical nature of the words his departure, and he departed ; 

 and even thefe are reduced to one grammatic form in the mind, 

 whenever the import of the propositions is rightly apprehended. 



FROM thefe obfervations it Should feem that there is no fuf- 

 ficient reafon for claSIing the word AFTER, in the one cafe, with 

 the Prepojitions, and, in the other, with the Coajunffioaj ; Since, by 

 the feeming change of its regimen, no real change is made, ei- 

 ther in its grammatical nature, or in its Signification. 



OF this unphilofophical method of arranging the fame words 

 in diSFerent claSTes, I Shall mention two other inftances, chiefly 

 with a view to prepare the way for a conjecture which I am to 

 oSFer with regard to the nature and import of one of the Greek 

 particles ; which inSlances will ferve to illuftrate and confirm that 

 conjecture, and will, in their turn, be illustrated by it*. 



I. THE EngliSh prepofition TO is very variously applied. Be- 

 ing extremely general in its Signification, it is confequently ca- 

 pable of various fpecial applications. One of its fpecial ufes is to 

 mark addition TO. Thus DENHAM, 



" Wifdom he has, and, TO his wifdom f, courage j 

 " Temper TO that, and, unTO all, fuccefs." 

 In this example, every fucceeding circumstance is, by the pre- 

 pofition 



* IN the progrefs of the effay, it will appear, that the reafoning proceeds upon an 

 analogy much more ftridt and clofe than here it feems to do. 



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