14^ a dictionary. yfug, i. 



invariably have they be ;n found, in the history of past 

 ages, to conduct men, in time, to certain beneficial arrange- 

 jnents, that we can hardly bring ourselves to believe, that 

 the end was not foreseen by those who were engaged in 

 the pursuit. Even in those rude periods of society, when, 

 like the lower animals, he follows blindly his instinctive 

 principles of action, he is led by an invisible hand, and 

 contributes his fhare to the execution -of a plan, of the na- 

 tare and advantages of which he has no conception. The 

 operations of the Bee, when it begins for the first time 

 to form its cell, conveys to us a striking image of the ef- 

 forts of unenlightened man, in conducting the operations 

 " *a an infant government. ■ I am, Sir," 6*f. Albanicus. 



EXERCISES IN PRACTICAL GRAMMAR. 

 Continued from vol.-viii.'.^. 1-84. 

 Dictionary, 

 vJ^REAT, adj. A relative w*d, denoting largeniefs of quan- 

 tity, number, is'c, serving to augment the value of those 

 terms with which it is combined. Opposed to small or 

 little. The principal circumstances jn which this word can 

 be employed are the following : 



1. When merely inanimate objects are considered with 

 regard to quantity, great is with propriety employed 

 to denote that that quantity is considerable ; as a great 

 ■mountain, a great house, &c. and it is here contrasted with 

 small. When great is- thus employed we have no other 

 word ihat is exactly synonymous. 



2. When inanimate objects are considered with regard 

 to their extent, this term is sometimes employed, although 

 with lefs propriety ; as a great field, a great plain, &c. 

 In this sense it is nearly synonymous with large j and they 

 are often used indiscriminately, but with some diiference of 

 meaning ; Sox as large li a terra chiefly employed to denote 



