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more beautiful Cpointing to another quantity at a dis- 

 tance,) though thoie are more numerous, pointing to 

 another quantity at a greater distance.' ' 



Observe, that these words, like all the defini- 

 tives derived immediately from nouns, are obliged to 

 perform the double office of definitives, and what we 

 have called pofsefsives. Thus we say, " this house is 

 finer than that, or that house,''^ either adding the nouti 

 defined, or supprefsing it, as suits our fancy, exactly 

 in the same way as we would say, 



Jair.es^s htuse is finer than jfcbn's, or jfobr's hotue. 



From the foregoing observations, we perceive, that 

 the personal pronouns, in all European languages, 

 both ancient and modern, are in many respects defec- 

 tive ; and that many words have been called pro- 

 nouns, which are not, in strict propriety, entitled to 

 that name ; and many others are forced to perform 

 various offices, so nearly allied to each other in some 

 cases, that they have not been distinguilhed, which 

 2ias produced much confusion in our grammatical ar- 

 rangements. We are enabled farther to perceive, 

 that, in a language like the Englilh, where every 

 thing relating to the gender of nouns is denoted by 

 the pronoiins only, a few additions to this important 

 clafs of words, would be productive of great energy, 

 elegance, and perspicuity in that language. 



• LETTERS FROM ISABELLA TO ALBERT. 



LETTER SECOND. 



A THOUSAND, thousand thanks, my dear Albert, for 

 your kind letter ! O I if I could but hope that ray 



