5S05.] 



The Verb Confder Re-confidcre:', 



this place, and to judge acconling to the 

 fuuation of Cotai, as deteimined, it can 

 be no other tiian the market-town' Kitfee, 

 in the county of Wiefelberg, and tlie 

 fmall difference of the two names Kotzi 

 and Kitfee onglit not t« dilfurb us, for k 

 is highly probable that formerly it was 

 rot written and pronounced as it is now, 

 Kitfee, but Kutfee. At iealt, in 151 5, 

 Ciiipinianiis, in his Diarium, called tlis 

 place Kotfee, as may be feen in Bel, p. 288, 

 whcie it is faid, " Q.iii (Tvlaximiliani I. 

 Cats. Oraiores, in quihuset ipfe Cuf'pini- 

 a-.ius erat) xiv. dirjulii invenerunt Regem 

 Kungarias Ulad';fl\um cum liberis fu's in 

 qujdam caftro Kotfee, cui adj icet Vil.'a 

 prope Daniibium." And Mat. Be!, arlds 

 the foil •wmj note {g) on the «ord Kott- 

 fee. — " Vetus et geiiuina apud Germancs 

 Koptfinii Mofonitndum oppidi adpellatia, 

 a ccenofoiitu, quem Danubii oiim dcluvia 

 talem faciebant, dedufta : jam K.itfee vo- 

 cant. Vide Operis noHn torn. 5. in H.iK 

 Com. Mofonien'is, parte Spe. Mcnib. i, 

 bca. I, No. 4. " 



Liktwife Gerhardus de Roc, librarian 

 in Infpruck to ihe Archduke, a writer of 

 the 1 6th cjentuiy, mentions this marke". 

 tv'wn under the name oiCoche, which, sc- 

 :tording to the French, and, at that time, 

 the Hungirian manrer of reading, mull 

 be pronounced like Koltfchee, in the time 

 of Matt. Corvinus, appears fiom his co- 

 temporary Bonfinius, wlio, indec.iii. lib. 

 7. writes it likewife Cache. — " Qn^i (he 

 •lays) in Ungarise finbus ad Cocbe oppi- 

 duin cu:n gubern:»tc;e conveniiii t." 



Your learned C'orrefpondtnt has given 

 fo complete an account of the ir.troiuclion 

 ot thele vehicles of expedition and eafe 

 into other countries, that it is impoffible 

 for me to make any addition to jt, 



Yuur's, &c. C. 



To the Edilor of ihe Monthlj Magazine. 



SIR, 



TKE little difference in opinion be- 

 tween N. N. and me, on the gcntr<jl 

 ratuie of the verb confidtr, I'ernis, by his 

 candid acknowledgment in yi.ur laic Num- 

 1)tr, to be vtry much dimin'flied. In one 

 rel'pefi we are (lil! a little at variance. -r- 

 N. N. origin lly afTeried, among other 

 t ines, that catife'er was neiier ufed, in a 

 C-. t!iin fenle, iiy Addf" n, tr any elfgant 

 writer, witliout being exprel'sly fi lloweJ 

 by ai. Although I infilted thu I did not 

 confider the ufe of " as" at elTeniitJl even 

 in that fc-nf'e, I did not utterly pr^Mcribe 

 its III*:, O) deny, that, in nKtiiy inllaricen, 

 it might be cxpreffed with much pioj ri- 



ety ; and, at the fame time, T pr.duced a 

 quotation from Aildifn. in diiiff refuta- 

 tion of his unliaiittd atTertion. But N. 

 N. muft find a better ciiieiion of ,tlie 

 ti uth of any rule of fyntax, or of the gram- 

 matical correftnefs of any exprtlTin, than 

 ei'her his own '•' feeling,'" be it ever <'o 

 refiiTed, fiice feeling, like found, is a veiy 

 inadequate teif of fenfe or ot grnnmatical 

 corre(5fntfs ; or the fuppofcd " indication 

 of no: having finiflicd a lenience ;" t'oi, 

 when I fay, •' I cor.iiJer the man ir liy 

 great," I have uttered a complete f nfenct, 

 although I may add, '' wlio hu-es hiu 

 cc-untry." Cisufs in.iy be addtd to (en- 

 -tences already complete, withoiiv tn.l j 

 and I may liill faither continue N. N.'s 

 example, ending wi;h " as the peci.liar 

 gloiy of the Engliih crcwn," by addin;-, 

 '• as being a fliend to t^e people, aild (,s 

 having fflcnii^lly confribu'ed'to fl)e ptr- 

 manent ell.iblifliment of thtii' 1 iglits, pi ivi- 

 legfs," &c. Neith.cr will the " tempo- 

 rary Kmbiguity or mifapprelve;.fi; n" at- 

 tending detached fentencts, whicli ni3y 

 be occaiioned by v.-.rious circnmft'nces, 

 m htate in any degree dg<inlt their gr-fm- 

 matical correfinefs. Otherwi.Q; he may 

 be compelled to rank among inftances if 

 no; •' good wiiting," fiich exprclli ins sis 

 " I cottfidcr him as a great mrm," becauf , 

 perhaps, it may not be immediately ob- 

 vious whether " gr^at man" refers to 

 " I" or to " him." A ftntence is ore 

 clear, dilHn'Sf enunciation of thought,; 

 R'ld, according to this difini'ion, " I cor- 

 fider Alired (to be) the greatcft of Saxjo 

 kings," is a complete fentence, and fufcep- 

 tible of one plain meaning. Tiiofi ad- 

 jun£ls which N. N. calls parenthetical, 

 are merely explanatory, and ate joined 10 

 the objeft Alfred by appofition ; aiid, to 

 diflinguifh them fiom whst cinftiiutts 

 x\\i light, manner, ofvieiv, in v.hich Al- 

 fred is confidcred, viz. " the peculiar 

 glory of the Englirti crown," as, f)r the 

 lake of peifp'icuiiy, is not unaptly ufed. 

 But I ccntend, that its expiefs uf^ is n.'t 

 eflenti.'l, for that, in an enumeiaiion cf 

 circurnliances, the ohjeft of conlidei'atioo 

 and its adjunfts follow ihu verb, aiid the 

 fentence naturally concludes, without the 

 •indifpcnfable aid of as, with th.el'e words 

 which convey and particularly fpecity the 

 ligf-'t, 'vieiL', or ms-tuur, in which theob- 

 jeit, with all its adjuntls, js to be coidi- 

 dered. The quitation frc.m the Pfalms 

 feems to be perreolly irrelrv nit. For we 

 are now fpe?king of the verb ccnfUir in a 

 ceriain figurative ienfe; whereas, in that 

 verl'c, it (cems to be tiled in the literal 

 ienfe of loekiitg at, 'vie'iviiig, beh:ld:'gt 

 A a lit 



