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Name each nice change appulsive powers supply 



To the quick sense of touch, or ear or eye. 



Or in fine traits abstracted forms suggest 



Of Beauty, Wisdom, Number, Motion, Rest; 



Or, as within reflex ideas move, 



Trace the light steps of Reason, Rage, or Love. 



The next new sounds adjunctive thoughts recite, 



As hard, odorous, tuneful, sweet, or white. 380 



by one word by changing its termination ; as amor, love ; amare, to 

 love; amari, to be loved. 



Nouns are the names of the ideas of things, first as they are 

 received by the stimulus of objects, or as they are afterwards re- 

 peated; secondly, they are names of more abstracted ideas, which 

 do not suggest at the same time the external objects, by which they 

 were originally excited ; or thirdly, of the operations of our minds, 

 Avhich are termed reflex ideas by metaphysical writers; or lastly, 

 they are the names of our ideas of parts or properties of objects; and 

 are termed by grammarians nouns adjective. 



Verbs are also in reality names of our ideas of things, or nouns, 

 with the addition of another idea to them, as of acting or suffering; 

 or of more than one other annexed idea, as of time, and also of exist- 

 ence. These with the numerous abbreviations, so well illustrated by 

 Mr. Home Tooke in his Diversions of Purley, make up the general 

 theory of language, which consists of the symbols of ideas repre- 

 sented by vocal or written words; or by parts of those words, as 

 their terminations ; or by their disposition in respect to their order 

 or succession; as further explained in Additional Note XIV. 



