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it were over the piace from which another is removed, the primitive 

 idea of higher being ftill, though more remotely, retained. 'Tm^ 

 tri hitKctS, " he ferves in room of thee," — " he ferves, — coming 

 " over the place from which you have been removed, — or which 

 " you have left unoccupied." 



6. Concerning, by a fimilar analogy to what takes place with 

 us when we fay, to think over, to talk over a fubjedl, the thought 

 or difcourfe being fuppofed, as it were, to cover the fubjed thus 

 thought or fpoken of. 'Otra, vwig tHh eigrjvrig Kun-^iuffaTO [^5, (Dk- 

 MOST.), " what he falfely charged me concerning the peace," — 

 " what he charged,— fubjed of the charge covering or going 

 " over the peace." 



Thus, in all the different applications of vmg, we find the ra- 

 dical idea denoted by it is higher, in fome cafes more diredly, in 

 others extended by analogy to exprefs fome particular view in 

 which one objed either is made to be, or is confidered as being 

 higher than another. 



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In analyzing vA^, it was found to be the comparative from 

 the adjedive uVof. Of this adjedlive the prepofition vm> appears 

 to be the dative, with fome common word denoting place or po- 

 fitxon underftood. In the application, however, of ii'^o and vae^ 

 as prepofitions, the fignification of the two, though originating 

 from the fame root, was reverfed ; in the one cafe, the attri- 

 bute being referred to the noun preceding ; in the other, to 

 its correlative, the noun following. In thefe, therefore, there 

 is no contradiftion, but merely a diverfity in the mode of ap- 

 plication. Hi^h and low, above and under, are merely relative 

 terms. When one objed is low or under in reference to another, 

 this laft, of confequence, comes to be high or above in reference 

 to the firft. Such a pofition of two objeds, therefore, may be 

 equally exprefled by faying, that the firft is above the fecond, or 



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