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it were over the place from which another is removed, the primitive 

 idea of higher being ftill, though more remotely, retained. 'ICVeg 

 <r* hazcw, " he ferves in room of thee," — " he ferves, — coming 

 " over the place from which you have been removed, — or which 

 " you have left unoccupied." 



6. Concerning, by a fimilar analogy to what takes place with 

 us when we fay, to think over, to talk over a fubject, the thought 

 or difcourfe being fuppofed, as it were, to cover the fubject thus 

 thought or fpoken of. Oca vntg rqg etgnvris xurt-^iixruTO fix, (De- 

 most.), f? what he falfely charged me concerning the peace," — 

 " what he charged, — fubject of the charge covering or going 

 " over the peace." 



Thus, in all the different applications of inrig, we find the ra- 

 dical idea denoted by it is higher, in fome cafes more directly, in 

 others extended by analogy to exprefs fome particular view in 

 which one object either is made to be, or is confidered as being 

 higher than another. 



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In analyzing vmg f it was found to be the comparative from 

 the adjective wW. Of this adjective the prepofition wto appears 

 to be the dative, with fome common word denoting place or po- 

 fition underflood. In the application, however, of viro and wig 

 as prepofitions, the fignification of the two, though originating 

 from the fame root, was reverfed; in the one cafe, the attri- 

 bute being referred to the noun preceding ; in the other, to 

 its correlative, the noun following. In thefe, therefore, there 

 is no contradiction, but merely a diversity in the mode of ap- 

 plication. High and low, above and under, are merely relative 

 terms. "When one object is low or under in reference to another, 

 this laft, of confequence, comes to be high or above in reference 

 to the firft. Such a pofition of two objects, therefore, may be 

 equally exprefTed by faying, that the firft is above the fecond, or 



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