reckoned but three, namely Noun, Pronoun and Verb. He trans- 

 lates the word )<t|ittibf <tfltt by the word Pronoun, to which he says, 

 " it is now appropriated." In my opinion, the meaning of )<if- 

 itibf<t|il<t is Adverb, or rather Adjunct or Particle, by which the an- 

 cients understood those words which point out the relations and cir- 

 cumstances of thing's, attributes and actions, and under which name 

 were comprehended the Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction and In- 

 terjection of the moderns. — Under the head Noun were included 

 the Noun, Adjective and Pronoun, and the Participle they consi- 

 dered as a part of the inflection of the verb. — ^The 3d chapter 

 treats of the Article. The 4th of the Noun, its derivatives and 

 species. — On this subject he is quite defective, not giving the Declen- 

 sions of the Nouns or Adjectives, or the comparisons of the latter.* — 

 The 5th. Of the Verb, Pronoun and Participle. — In this depart- 

 ment of grammar he is also defective, as he does not shew the con- 

 jugation of a verb through any of the modes, except the formation 

 of one regular Verb in the persons and tenses of the Indicative. 

 He omits altogether the defective or irregular Verbs, merely ob- 

 serving, that they are very numerous, and that in conjugating 

 them " the common use and practice of the province, &c. is the only 

 pattern." Of the Pronouns he is silent, except as to declining the 

 three personal, by the same number of cases as those of the Latin 

 and Greek. — The 6th treats of Abbreviations in writing, of which 

 he has given a few examples. The remainder of it treats of Prosody, 

 which may be pronounced the most valuable part of this grammar. 

 On the entire, however, this great Philologer is entitled to the grati- 

 tude of his successors. 



• His rules for the genders of Nouns are liable to the same objections as those of Mac 

 Curtin. — See p. 19. 



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