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having showed the particulars, let him know these are called Colours. The 

 like for taste, smell, hearing, and touch or feeling. From whence you may 

 furnish him with more examples of Adjectives with Substantives, as white bread, 

 brown bread, soft cheese, hard cheese, black hat, &c. And then, inverting 

 the order. Substantive and Adjective, with the verb Copulative between ; as, 

 silver is white, gold is yellow, lead is heavy, wood is light, snow is white, ink 

 is black, &c. which will begin to give him some notion of Syntax. In like 

 manner, when Substantive and Substantive are so connected ; as, gold is a 

 metal ; a rose is a flower ; horses are beasts ; larks are birds, &c. 



Then, as those before relate to quality, you may give him some other words 

 relating to quantity ; as, long, short, broad, narrow, thick, thin ; much, many, 

 few, full, empty, &c. Then words of figure ; as, straight, crooked, concave, 

 convex; round, square, &c. Of gesture; as stand, sit, &c. Of motion; as 

 move, rest, walk, run, fly, creep, &c. 



Then, words relating to time, place, number, weight, measure, money, &c. 

 are in proper time to be shewed him, distinctly. As likewise, the names and 

 situations of places, and countries, which are convenient for him to know ; and 

 which may be written orderly in his book; and showed him in maps. 



After the concord of Substantive and Adjective, he is to be showed, by proper 

 examples, that of the Nominative and Verb ; as for instance, I go, he sits, the 

 fire burns, the sun shines, and the like : with the tit|es on the top. Nominative, 

 Verb. Then, under the titles, Nominative, Verb, Accusative, give him Ex- 

 amples of Verbs Transitive ; as, I see you, you see me, the fire burns the 

 wood. Or even with a Double Accusative, as, you teach me writing, or to 

 write, &c. After this, you may teach him the Flexion or Conjugation of a 

 Verb ; or what is equivalent to it : for in our English tongue, each Verb has only 

 tvi'O Tenses, the Present and the Preter, and two Participles, the Active and the 

 Passive : all the rest is performed by auxiliaries ; which auxiliaries have no more 

 tenses than the other verbs. Those auxiliaries are, do, did, will, would, shall, 

 should, may, might, can, could, must, ought to, have, had, am, be, was: 

 and if by examples you can insinuate the signification of these few words : you 

 will then have taught him the whole flexion of the verb. 



And here it will be proper once for all, to write him out a full specimen of 

 some verb, as to see, through all those auxiliaries. The verb itself has only 

 these four words to be learned ; see, saw, seeing, seen ; except that, after thou in 

 the second person singular, in both tenses, we add est ; and in the third person 

 singular, in the present tense, eth or es : or, instead thereof, st, th, s. And 

 so in all verbs. Tlien, to the auxiliaries, do, did, will, would, shall, should, 

 may, might, can, could, must, ought to, we adjoin the Indefinite see : and 



