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idea of number; and the word stag's, with a comma before the final s, 

 suggests, in English, another secondary idea of something appertaining 

 to the stag, as a stag's horn; which is, however, in our language, as 

 frequently expressed by the preposition of, as the horn of a stag. 



In the Greek and Latin languages an idea of gender is joined with 

 the names of intire things, as well as of number; but in the English 

 Janguage the nouns, which express inanimate objects, have no genders 

 except metaphorically; and even the sexes of many animals have 

 names so totally different from each other, that they rather give an 

 idea of the individual creature than of the sex, as bull and cow, horse 

 and mare, boar and so\v, dog and bitch. This constitutes another 

 circumstance, which renders our language more simple, and more 

 easy to acquire; and at the same time contributes to the poetic ex- 

 cellence of it; as by adding a masculine or feminine pronoun, as he, 

 or she, other nouns substantive are so readily personified. 



In the Latin language there are five cases besides the nominative, 

 or original word, and in the Greek four. Whence the original noun 

 substantive by change of its termination suggests a secondary idea 

 either corresponding with the genitive, dative, accusative, vocative, 

 or ablative cases, besides the secondary ideas of number and gender 

 above mentioned. The ideas suggested by these changes of termina- 

 tion, which are termed cases, are explained in the grammars of these 

 languages, and are expressed in ours by prepositions, which are called 

 the signs of those cases. 



Thus the word Domini, of the Lord, suggests beside the primary 

 idea a secondary one of something appertaining to it, as templum 

 tlomini, the temple of the Lord, or the Lord's temple; which in 

 English is either effected by an addition of the letter s, with a comma 

 before it, or by the preposition of. This genitive case is said to be 

 expressed in the Hebrew language simply by the locality of the words 

 in succession to each other; which must so far add to the conciseness 

 of that language. 



Thus the word Domino, in the dative case, to the Lord, suggests 

 besides the primary idea a secondary one of something being added 

 to the primary one; which is effected in English by the preposition to. 



The accusative case, or Dominum, besides the primary idea implies 



