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name of datives nor ablatives : that , if the meaning 

 only of words were to constitute different clafses of 

 cases, we would not only depart in some measure 

 from the idea of cases in ancient languages, but 

 would be under the necefsity of creating an eudlefs 

 variety of cases that never had hitherto been thought 

 of: and that all these different cMses of words per- 

 form in language the office, and have the power, of 

 nouns, strictly so called ; and are liable to all the 

 changes that other nouns in our language admit of. 

 From whence I infer, that they are neither genitives, 

 nor ablatives, nor adjectives, strictly so called, nor 

 belong to any of those various clafses of words in 

 which they have hitherto been ranged ; but that they 

 form a distinct clafs of words by themselves, the 

 properties and uses of which have not been hitherto 

 distinctly ascertained. The remaining part of this 

 efsay will be appropriated to a more particular inves- 

 tigation of this subject. 



To be continued. 



DETATCHED REMARK. 



The ordinary attacks of calumny and detraction ■ 

 ought to be looked upon as sparks, which, if you do 

 not blow them will go out of themselves. This was 

 an observation of the great Herman Eoerhaave's, and 

 nothing can be more worthy of our attention and 

 practice. 



