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■<■ is held tog* ii.< r ; and Ihui ratabhahcd ^rinciplea and provided 



materials wherewith fto m;.\ the Q 



1. In A general -.lrvry of ih it must 



I ritten, there is perfu i th 



to vit iw, m the principle which separates all words, of what iverdenomi- 

 :,:.! i and i. .■■! ' i obj( eta in the 



animal, veg« table, or mineral kingdom. This principle has b< en grafted 

 ujhmi moot worde, and <■ tax. It 



is the gender of tin- language : but a gender of so unbounded a sc 



■ merge in it the common dist f a mascuKne and feminine) 



and: twoJbJd character to tb ch. The concords 



which it requires, and the double in/lections it providi s, will be mentioned 

 in their appropriate places, [twill be sufficient hei rye, that 



animate nouns require animate verba lor their nominatives, animate ad- 

 jectives to express their qualities, and animate I pronouns 

 to mark the distinctions of person. Thus, it' we sty, [see a man ; I 

 see a house, (he termination of the verb must be changed What was 



in the first instance wab ima, is altered to wab indan. Wab, is here 



the infinitive, but tin - still m ore remote, [fthequ 



don oocar, b it ■ good man, or a good hoi !j< ctrre, which, in 



the inanimate form is onishish-i, is, in the animate onishish-iii'. If the 



■ion be put, Is it this man, or tin's b pronoun this, which is 



ma bum, in the animate, it changed to ml ndun, in the iinnimate. 

 innate embrace the tribi a of qumdrupeds, birds, fishes, b 

 rept. tacss, the sun and moon and stars, thunder and lightning, 



for these are personified ; and what ver either p limal life, or is 



endowed, by the peculiar opinions and sup »f the Indians, with 



it. [n the vegetable kingdom, their number is comparatively limited, 



being chiefly confined to treeSj and those only while they are referred 



to, ia whole bodies, and to the various f fruits, and seeds; and 



lionta It is at the option of the speaker to employ aouna, either as 



animates or inanimat s : but it is a choice I idoin r< sorted to, < inept in 

 •h Itated i ' - are 



sjot msDerous, and the more prominent of them, ma j ted. The 



• [tl • iiow. 



tract d to ; paid to certain inant- 



■hot bodies, either from their real <>v fancied properties, — th< 



which f • to which | 



.. tor- 



