deduction, induction, example, 473; fallacies, Cacophony, 159.
474, 475; position in discourse, 614.
Aristotle, of the Germans, 65.
Armenian language, 59; consonant combinations
in, 137; words from, 418; proper names, 434.
Armorican language, 61.
Arnold on logic and grammar, 475*; on adjec-
tives in predicate, 400.
Arthur, Prince, 65.
Arvott quoted, 498,
Article defined, 283, 284; indefinite, 285; defin-
ite, 286; in foreign tongues, 287; origin of,
267; relation to proposition, 461; syntax, 495,
496.
Articulate sounds, 113; natural significancy of,
167.
Aspirates, 115, 127, 137, 182.
Asterisk, 702.
Atonic sounds, 117.
Attributive adjective, 400; combination, 533.
Cadmon quoted, 77, 630.
Cæsar, Julius, 63.
Calhoun, J. C., quoted, 550.
Cambrian language, 61.
Cambridge Philological Museum, of scheme so
make English euphonious, 105; of travelled,
233; of the genitive, 260.
Camden, of learning in Ireland, 45; of English
language before the Conquest, 68; English
composite, 98.
Campbell, Thomas, influence of Norman Con-
quest on English, 75, use of angel and far be
tween, 267; Lochiel referred to, 621; quoted,
492, 550, 602, 625, 680.
Campbell, use of such, 314.
Canning quoted, 615.
Capital letters, 703.
Caractacus, 63.
Auxiliary verbs, Becker of, 241; office of, 341; Cardinal numbers, 280.
classification of, 342, 344; derivation of, 343; Caret, 601.
conjugation of, 345, 346, 347.
Barbarism, 545, 546.
Barrett, of pronouns, 302.
Basque, 59.
Beattie quoted, 366, 492.
Becker, classification of parts of speech, 241; of
adjectives, 265; of numerals, 278; of pronouns,
283, 301; of demonstratives, 307; of verbe, 318;
of prepositions, 374.
Carlyle, Thomas, quoted, 550.
Case defined, 256; origin of term, 257; right,
oblique, 257; nominative, possessive, genitive,
objective, accusative, 256; paradigms, 258;
possessive, how formed, 259; Anglo-saxon gen
itive, 260; usage in 16th century, 260; number
of cases, 261; Norman genitive compared with
Anglo-Saxon, 202; cases in different langua
ges, 263, 264.
Causal conjunctions, 379; sentences, 137.
Caxton, W., quoted, 81.
Celtic, table of words from, 14, 15; family of lan
guages described, 46; elements of English, in-
troduction of, 61, 983; classification of, 62;
words from, 418.
Celts described, 61.
Cerebrals, 124, 182.
Ch in English, etc., 214.
Chaldaic, 29, 383; words from, 417.
Chalmers, ase of we, 297; use of were and did,
522.
Channing, W. E., quoted, 437*, 520, 550.
Chatham, pronunciation of wound, 175; quoted,
497, 505, 574.
Bohemian interrogative, 313; words from, 418; Chaucer, language of his age, 3; use of preposi
pronunciation of Napoleon, 43-4.
Bolingbroke quoted, 497, 521.
Bopp's Comparative Grammar referred to, 11;
quoted, 13, 53; views of philology, 13; classifi-
cation of languages, 26; of Indo-European, 33;|
of Lithuanian, 57; of prepositions, 526.
Bosworth, of the stability of English, 104.
Boucher, causes of euphony, 166.
Bourcher, alliteration, 630.
Bowering, of the Magyar, 130.
Brightland on shall and will, 328.
British language, 61.
Britons, names among, 424.
Brougham quoted, 497.
Browne, Sir Thomas, quoted, 82; latinizes, 83.
Brunanburgh War Song, alliteration from, 630.
Brunne, R., quoted, 359,
Bulwer, Sir E. L, quoted, 499, 503, G15;
syntax, 530.
tions, 373; use of alone, 395; use of shamefast,
422; use of it, 499; quoted, 81, 543.
Chinese language described, 26, 28; phonetic el
ements in, 129; possessive, 302; of verbs, 317;
words from, 418.
Choate quoted, 437*.
Choctaw, 137.
Choice of words, rules for, 54; of syntax, rules
for, 544.
Cicero, sermo corporis. 1; oratory of, 554; quo-
ted, 3, 507, 573, 581, 555, 530, 593, 615.
Classical languages, euphony of, 164; elements
of English, how to be treated, 396; words and
roots to be separated from Teutonic, 396. See
Latin, Greek, Romanic.
Classification, 239; of parts of speech, 240, 241,
Clay, H., quoted, 550.
Climax, 553.
Cobbett, plan of reforming language, 226; on
gender, 249; quoted, 492, 530.
Burke quoted, 492, 499, 583, 594, 527, GOS, G15; Cockney dialect, 92.
Buras quoted, 516, 615, 626, 628, 635.
Burton, use of nor, 528.
Buttmann on pronouns, 314.
Cognate consonants, 182.
Coincidences in form of words, 421.
Coke, use of thou, 259.
Coleridge, S. T., quoted, 226, 559, 615, 622, 626,
Byron, monosyllabic quotation from, 144; eu-
phony of English, 164; use of him as reflective,
500; quoted, 502, 510, 576, 578, 581, 557, 589,
593, 54, 607, GOS, 615, 622, 624, 625, 627, 636, Collins quoted, 598, 602, 633.
651, 671, €72.
Collective nouns, 244; syntax of, 509; conjunc
tions, 379.
Collocation of rominative, 492; of genitive, 484;
of objective, 487; of adjectives, 491; first three Dash, 690.
or three first, 494; of verb, 510; of adverb, 524; D'Aubigné quoted, 615.
of prepositions, 527.
Colon, 681.
Colton quoted, 615.
Comma, 652.
Common noun, 244; common metre, 676.
Commutation of letters, 160.
Comparison of adjectives, definitions, 269, 270;
formation of comparatives and superlatives,
270, 271; irregular, 272, 273; defective, 274;|
by intensive words, 275; list of adjectives with-
out, 276; of adverbs, 368.
Comparative Philology, origin of, 5.
Composition, 393, 394; of sounds, 1.5; of numer-
als, 281.
Conception, vivid, necessary to the orator, 561.
Concessive conjunction, 379.
Conclusion, 614.
Conditional conjunctions, 379; syllogism, 469;
46); sentences, 53S.
Conjugation defined, 340; auxiliary verbs, 341-
347; strong or ancient, 348, 34; progressive
forms, 251; emphatic, 352; interrogative, 353;
weak or modern, 351, 355; irregular, 356; de-
rived verbs, 357; reflective, 355; impersonal,
359; defective, 360.
Davis, Sir J., quoted, 670.
Davy, Sir H., of birthplace of language, 4
Days of week, names of, 437.
Declarative sentence, 531.
Deduction, 473.
Defective verbs, 360.
Definite article, 286.
Definition, logical, physical, accidental, nominal,
real, rules for, 448.
Demonstratives defined, 307; in foreign tongues,
308; Becker on, 307; Latham on, 308; An
glo-Saxon declined, 308; rules for syntax of,
501.
Demosthenes, oratory of, 554; climax from, 583;
quoted, 615.
tives, 423; English surnames, 424-434; names
of places, 435; of months, 436; of days of
week, 437; derivation of adjectives, 208; of
articles, S7; of auxiliaries, 343; impersonal
verbs, 35); defective verbs, 360; adverbs,
362+ prepositions, 373; conjunctions, 379;
interjections, 381.
Conjunctions defined, 240, 241, 375 distinguish-dences, 421; illusive etymologies, 422; diminu-
ed from prepositions, 375; form-words, 375;
Harris on, 376; connective, continuative, posi-
tive, causal, collective, simple, absolute, com-
parative, 376; suppositive, adversative, ade-
quate, inadequate, 376, 379; classification of,
377; copulative, disjunctive, 376, 377, 379; of-
fice of, 378; origin of, 379; of subordination,
of co-ordination, 380; Tooke, Murray, Latham,
Stoddart on, 378; Tooke, Harris, Crombie on,
379; rules for syntax of, 529; corresponding,
528.
Consonants, 112+; related, 126; lene, 127; as-
pirate, 127, 137; enumeration, 182.
Construction, ambiguous, 610; unintelligible,C11.
Continuous sounds, 116.
Contrary propositions, 455.
Conversion, logical, 454; syntactical, 476.
Co-ordinate sentences, 380, 537.
Copulative conjunctions, 376, 377, 379;
syntax of, 513; sentences, 537.
Desire to express emotion, essential to the orator,
562.
De Stael, Madame, quoted, 583; anecdote of, G04.
Devonshire dialect, 91.
Diare-is, 160, 696.
Dialects, what, 84; how many, 85; sources of,
So; Lowland Scotch, S7; Northern Counties,
Cumberland, Yorkshire, SS; East Anglia, Suf-
folk, 8; Southern Counties, Kent, Sussex, 90;
Western Counties, Cornish, Devonshire, 91;
Cockney, 92; American, 93-97.
Dickens quoted, 550.
Digraph, 182.
Dilemma, 471.
Cornish language, 61; dialect, specimen of, 91. Diminutive, 244, 390, 4 3.
Cornwall, J., makes boys read Latin into English,
Correlative nouns, 244.
Cotton quoted, 488.
Couplet, 621, GG5, 637.
Cowley, tautology from, 525.
Cowper, syntax with than, 500; use of for why,
550; quoted, 602; use of 'twas and ev ry, C31;
example of long meter, 677.
Crombie, of conjunctions, 379.
Crosby, Prof. A., of euphonic changes, 407.
Cunningham, Allan, specimen of iambic tetram-
eter from, 638.
Curran quoted, 505, 601.
Cymric language, 61.
Daco-Romano, 41.
Dactyl, 622.
Dactyle monometer, 657; dimeter, 65S; trime-
ter, 653; tetrameter, 660; hexameter, 661.
Dantovky, of the Sclavonic languages, 53.
Danish, origin of, 55; elements in English, 69,
583; comparison in, 272; pronouns, 296, 298;
interrogative, 313; adjective pronoun, 314;
impersonal verbs, 359; prepositions, 373; con-
junctions, 379; pair-words in, 389; words from,!
compared with Greek, 414; words from, 4:8,
434; old Danish, see Norse.
Discourse, in logic, 464; in rhetoric, parts of, 614
Disguised derivatives, 595, 422.
Disjunctive conjunctions, 376, 377, 379; scn-
tences, 537.
Dissyllabic metres, 622.
Distich, 621.
Distribution, logical, 453.
Distributive numerals, 280.
Division, logical, physical, cross, arbitrary, rules
for, 446; in discourse, 614.
Doddridge, 679.
Donaldson on the study of names of place", 20,
Donne, use of his='s, 260.
Double letters, 182; forms of words, 420; dagger,
702.
Douglass, Gavin, quoted, 81.
Drayton, false syntax from, 530,
Druid, 61.
Dryden, J., quoted, 83; gallicizes, S3; use of
self-same, 365; quoted, 499, 592, 633, 630, 643,
668.
Duponceau on verieties of sound, 131.
Dutch, 53; comparison in, 272; conjunctions,
379; element of English, 383; disguised deriv-
atives, 414, 422; words from, 418; double forms
from, 420; proper names in, 434.
Dwight, short metre, 678.
Elizabeth, elements of English fixed in her Fanshawe, C., enigma credited to Byron, 586.
reign, 72, 81.
Elliott quoted, 482.
Ellipsis, 480, 483, 530; a source of obscurity,
609; in punctuation, 701.
Figure, logical, 466; rhetorical, described, 568;
rules for use of, 569; study of, 570; alphabetic
enumeration and illustration of, 571–608.
Eloquence defined,552; the language of emotion, Finnic, 58.
553; continued emotion, 554; must spring Flat sounds, 115.
from the subject, 555; be regulated by judg- Fontenelle quoted, 571.
ment, 556; be united with love of truth, 557; Foreign words in English, 418.
and sense of right, 558; must have an end in Fortescue quoted, 81.
view, 559; demands good sense, 560; vivid Fossil poetry, 21.
conception, 561; desire to express emotion, Fox, C. J, quoted, 505.
562; strong will, 563.
Emerson, R. W., quoted, 685.
Emotion, source of eloquence, 553-553, 562.
Emphatic changes in Greek, 407.
Enallage, 480.
Francis, Sir Philip, quoted, 550, 577, 605
French language, origin of, characteristics of,
specimen of, 58; Norman-French, 42, 43; tà
not in, 129; nasals in, 137; influence of on
English alphabet, 220; gender in, 245, 247,
248; Norman genitive, 262, 485; articles in,
287; pronouns, 298. 316; auxiliary, 329; ad-
verb, 366; prepositions, 374; interjections,
381; element of English, 383; pair-words,
389; compounds, 314; disguised derivatives
from, 405, 414; words from, 418; double forms
from, 420; coincidences in words, 421; illusive
etymologics, 422; surnames, 424; indeterm-
inate pronoun, 54; derivatives require what
prepositions in English, 526.
English language, historical elements, 1-107;
origin of, 9, 10; comparative table of words,
14, 15; study of, 24; historical development
of, 60-76; successive stages, 77-83; Latinized,
Gallicized, Germanized, 83; dialects of, 84-97;
character of composite, 98; copious, 99; pro-
portion and kind of Anglo-Saxon words, 100,
101; expressiveness, 102; its grammar Anglo-
Saxon, 103; stability, 104; prospects, 165, 106;
phonetic elements, 108-176; table of phonetic
elements, 118, 122; sounds not in other lan-
guages, 1:9; monosyllabic, 144; accent in, 146;
quantity in, 151; application of Grimm's law 313.
to, 161, 162; euphony of, 164, 165; orthograph-Froissart, use of shamefast, 42?.
ic forms, 177-238; alphabet, defects of, 210-Fuller's Church History quoted, 537.
214; relation to other alphabets, 214; origin
Frisbie, Professor, quoted, 606.
Frisian declen-io. 12; described, 52; compari
son in, 272; reflective, 303; interrogative in,
of alphabet, 215-221; etymological forms, 239- Gaelic, 61, 137; words from, 418.
437; constituent elements of, 383 (see Deri-Garnett on Scandinavian element in English, 69.
vation); logical forms, 438-475; syntactical Garrick referred to, 681.
forms, 476-551; rhetorical forms, 553-615; po- Gay's stanza, 663.
etical forms, 616-680. Old English, specimens
of, 80; alphabet, 181, 221; verb in Old En-
glish, 323. Middle English, specimens of, char-
acteristics of, 81.
Enthymeme, 467; rhetorical, 468.
Enunciation, 614.
Eothen (Kinglake) on Slavonic, 56.
Epanalepsis, 5S7.
Epanorthosis, 598.
Equivalent letters, 203; grammatical, 540.
Erotesis, 520.
Erse, numerals in, 15; words from, 418. Seel
Irish.
Etymology, historical, grammatical, definitions,
239; relation to orthography, 232; noun, 243-
264; adjective, 265-82; article, 283-287; pro-
noun, 258-316; verb, 317-360; adverb, 361-
370; preposition, 371-374; conjunction, 375-
380; interjections, 381; derivation, 382-437;
illusive, 422; proper names, 424+; etymolog
ical analysis and synthesis, 437".
Euphemismi, 591.
Euphonic changes, 159-166.
Euphony, definition of, 159; figures of, 160:
Grimm's law, 161, 162; of English, 164, 165;
causes of, 166; in Greek, 407.
Everett, E. quoted, 593.
Example, 473
Exclamation, 531, 585, 687.
Exordium, 614
Gender defined, tables, 245; of specified words,
246; in English, philosophic, 247; poetic, 248;
what to be used in personification, 249.
Generalization, 445.
Genus, in logic, 443, 444.
Georgian, words from, 418.
German described, 50; th in, 129; application
of Grimm's law in, 162; alphabet, 180; gen-
der in, 247; article in, 2S7; pronouns, 206,
298, 300; pronomen reverentiæ, 201; adjec
tive pronouns, 314; indeterminate pronoun,
316; impersonal verbs, 359; adverbs, 369;
prepositions, 373; conjunctions, 379; element
of English, 383; demonstrative element in,
385; suffixes, 390; compounds, 3^4; prefixes,
412; disguised derivatives, 414; words from,
418; double forms from, 420; coincidences in
words, 421; illusive etymologies, 42; proper
names, 434; reflective pronoun in, 5 0; puno.
tuation in, 703. Low-Germanic, 51-55. Old
High-German, numerals, 15; application of
Grimm's law to, 161, 162; comparison in, 273;
reflective in, 303; interrogative in, 313: sdjeo-
tive pronouns in, 314; impersonals, 350; dis-
guised compounds, 395.
Gibbon quoted, 437, 498, 507; use of muntia!, 546.
Goldsmith, careless use of pronouns, 499; use of
me, 500; use of or, 528; hypotyposis from, 593;
metonymy from, 58; quote, 65.
Good sense essential to the orator, 550.
Gothic family of languages, 2, 47-55, 383: ta-
ble of words in, 14, 15; pronomen reverentise
in, 479. Moso-Gothic, numerals, lk 49;
Grimm's law as to, 161, 162; number in, 255;
comparison in, 272, 273: article in, 287; pro-
nouns in, 236, 302, 303, 313; verb, number of,
324; participle, 339; substantive verb, 346;
impersonals, 559; adverbs, 369; prepositions,
373; conjunctions, 379; interjections, 381;
roots in, 386; prefixes, 391, 412; double forms,
420.
Gower, use of impersonals, 359.
Grammar defined, 236; English, defined, 237;
derived from logic, 239, 439; relation to rhet-
oric, 567; to poetry, 616,
Grammatical equivalents, 476.
alphabet, 217; gender in, 247; number in,
255; interjections, 381; elements of English,
383; classified, 415; through Greek and Latin,
416; prefixes and suffixes from, 417; surnames
from, 424, 434.
Hemans, Mrs., quoted, 6-15.
Hengist, 64.
Henry II., anecdote of, 71.
Henry III., proclamation of, as Old English, 80.
Herbert, George, quoted, S2; task-poetry from,
631.
Hermes, 216.
Grant on comparison of certain adjectives, 276; Hieroglyphs, 215.
quoted, 592.
Grattan quoted, 597.
Grave, the, Semi-Saxon, quoted, 79.
Gray, use of would, 522; quoted, 559, 578, 615,
623,633, 669.
Highlanders, surnames of, 424. See Gaelic.
Hindostanee, relation to Sanscrit, 10; genitive,
302.
Hobbes, of names, 461.
Hogg quoted, 680.
Greek a dead language, 10; comparative tables, Holmes quoted, 592.
14, 15; describe 1, 41; combinations of sound Homer quoted, 1, 216; referred to,7; described,
in, 137; Grimm's law applied to, 161, 162; al- 615.
phabet, 180, 181, 215, 218; gender, 247; num-Hood quoted, 530.
ber, 255; articl, 287; pronouns, 29, 206, 299, Hooker, use of her, 248; quoted, 489.
302, 38, 313; aorist, 327; fature, 328; perfect, Horace quoted, 68.
329; pluperfect, future perfect, 331; auxilia-Horsa, 64.
ries, 341, 343; adverbs, 361; prepositions, 371, Howitt, W., quoted, 550.
373; conjunctions, 379; interjections, 381; el-Humboldt, W. von, of the origin of language, 2;
ements of English, 353; roots, prefixes, suffix- causes of diversity in language, 17; of pro-
es, union vowel, through Teutonic into English,
nouns, 291.
396; development of Greek portion of English, Hybrids, 419.
406; roote, 38, 407, 408; euphonic and em-Hylonymic adjectives, 390.
phatic changes, 407; list of roots examined, Hypillage, 480.
408; stem-adje tives, 409; stem-substantives, Hyperbaton, 480.
410; suffixes, 411; primary and secondary de- Hyperbole, 532.
rivatives, 411; prefixes, 412; compounds, 394, Hyphen, 694.
413; disguised forms, 414; illusive etymolo-Hypotyposis, 593.
gies, 422; surnames, 424, 434; derivatives re- Hysteron proteron, 480.
quire what preposition in English, 526; quan-
tity and accent in, 618.
Greenwood, views of adjective pronouns, 302.
Grimm, his law, 161, 163; spelling of preterit,
226; on verb be, 346.
Grotius, of the primitive language, 5.
Guardian, the, quoted, 577.
Guesses at Truth, see Hare.
Guest on words from Latin during the Celtic
I, peculiar sound of, in English, 214.
Iambus, 622; iambic monometer, 635; dimeter,
636; trimeter, 637; tetrameter, 638; penta-
Lecter, 639; hexameter, 640; heptameter, 611.
Icelandic, 55; sounds in, 137; comparison in, 272;
pronouns, 296,
Illative conjunctions, 379.
Imperative mode, 332; syntax of, 517; sentence,
period and the Saxon period, 63; on the word Impersonal verbs, 359.
Angle, 67; test of Old English, 80; on vowel Impropriety, 545, 548.
sounds, 111; English accent, 146; English Indefinite numerals, 280; quantitatives, 280; ar-
quantity, 158; on self, 304; on demonstra-
tives, 305; dative, in English, 499; use of ye
and you, 499; on tumbling metres, 621.
Gutturals, 124, 137, 182.
Halbertsma on stability of English, 104.
Hall, Bishop, use of atonement, 35,
Hall, Robert, on the expressiveness of English,
Hallam on the transition of Anglo-Saxon into
English, 76.
Halleck quoted, 483; litotes from, 595
Hallelujah metre, 679.
Indeterminate pronoun, 316; rules for syntax of,
504; compared with French, 504.
Index, 700.
India, illusive etymology of proper names in,
422.
Indians of America, languages of, 27, 62, 99, 263.
Indo-European languages, 27, 31-45,
Induction, 473.
Infinitive, 335; syntax of, 514; with bid, dare,
f, etc., 515; objective, gerundial explained,
515; as a noun, 516.
Inflection defined, 239.
Hamilton, Sir William, of numerals, 279; quoted, Ingersoll on possessives, 302.
Harderus, of English, 98.
Hare (Guesses at Truth), on the spelling of pret-
erits, 226; of pronouns, 291, 297; of the move-
ment of Greek, Latin, etc., 615; quoted (3)
559, 577.
Harris, English composite, 9S; of conjunctions,
376, 379.
Harrison, Inglish monosyllabic, 144.
Hastings, anecdote of, 558
Hawes quote 1, 50:
Hazlitt quoted, 483.
Interjection defined, 240, 381; origin of, 381; im
portance of, 381; classification and enumer-
ation of, 381; relation to propositions, 463;
syntax of, 52.
Interrogative define1, 312; Anglo-Saxon de-
clin d, 313; other language compared, 313;
rules for syntax of, 503; sentences, 531; inter-
rogation in rhetoric, 500; in punctuation, 686.
Intransitive verbe, 321.
Irish Frse, 46, 61, 137: proper names, 494.
Hebrew, the primitive language, 5; described, Irony, 504.
26, 29, 30; combinations of sound in, 137, 258; Irving, W., quoted, 559, 615.
Italian described, 37, euphony of, 164; gender
in, 247; article, 257; pronouns, 298; preposi-
tions, 373; element of English, 383; disguised
derivatives, 405, 414; words from, 418; double
forms, 420; illusive etymology, 434; proper
names, 434.
Italic letters, 181, 703.
Iterative numerals, 280.
Its, history of, 300.
J, sound of, in English, French, etc.. 214.
James, King, on tumbling metres, 621.
Jameson, Mrs., quoted, 550.
Jeffrey, F., quoted, 82, 521.
Johnes, unity of man, 4.
given, 396; element of English, 63, 383, 396;
development of, 397; roots, 856, 398, 399; stem
adjectives, 400; stem substantives, 401; pri
mary derivatives, 402; secondary derivatives,
403; derivatives with prefixes, prefixes enu-
merated, 404, 412 (see Index of Words); dis-
guised derivatives, 405, 414, 422; from Hebrew,
416; union vowel, 413; suffixes with Teutonic
words, 419; double forms, 420; coincidences,
421; surnames, 424, 434; months, 436; days
of week, 437; ellipsis with genitive, 483; ex-
pletive, 499; reflective, 500; prepositions with
compounds, 526; quantity and accent in, 618,
Johnson, Dr. Samuel, quoted, 82, 509, 521, 550; Lennie, of possessives, 302.
etymologies from, 389.
Johnson, of wound, 175.
Jones, Sir William, of birthplace of language, 4;
of Sanscrit, 34; antithesis, 577.
Jonson, Ben, quoted, 82, 622, 644; on genitive
case, 260.
Judgment, relation to logic, 464; essential to the
orator, 556.
Junius quoted, 538, 605, 615; referred to, 468.
Jutes, 64, 66.
Keats quoted, 559, 633.
Kemble, J. M., quoted, 166.
Kent, dialect of, 90.
Key, T. H, use of article, 502.
Knolle quoted, 373.
Kühner on participles, 338.
Letters, classification of, 182; relation to cle-
mentary sounds, 183-209; equivalent, 209; in-
vention of, 216. See Alphabet.
Leyden quoted, 602, 615.
Linguals, 182.
Liquids, 118, 121, 122, 182.
Lithuanic, numerals, 15; described, 57.
Littleton, Lord, quoted, 615.
Litotes, 5.5.
Liveliness, rules for, 612.
Lockhart quoted, 502.
Locke, language of his age, 3.
Lodge quoted, 248.
Logic, source of grammar, 239, 439, 440; rela.
tions to rhetoric, 439, 449, 567; how far treated
in this work, 441; relation to syntax, 477; to
poetry, 616.
Logical forms, definitions, 438-441; terms, 442-
448; propositions, 449-464; argument, 465-
475; related to states of mind, 464; analysis,
synthesis, 475.
London Philological Society, 264, 304.
Longfellow quoted, 661, 674.
Language, definitions, 1; origin, 2; growth, 3; Long metre, 677.
birthplace, 4; primitive, 5; value, 6, 7; imper-Lord's Prayer in Anglo-Saxon, 78.
fection, 8; decay, 9; death, 10; original unity, Love of truth essential to the orator, 557.
11; analogies in Gothic family, 12; Ropp's Lowland cotch, 87.
views, 13; analogies in Indo-European, 14, 15; Lowth, of possessives, 302.
diversities, 16, 17; study of, 18; connection Lydgate quoted, 81.
with things, 19; with history, 20; lost mean-
ings, 21; relation to laws of mind, 22; to opin-Macaulay, relation of language to Protestantism,
ion, 23.
Languages classified, 25-59; ancient and mod-
ern compared, 264. See English, Latin, etc.
Laplandish, 55; noun declined, 263.
23; influence of Normans on English lan.
guage, 75; iambics, 637.
Mackintosh quoted, 597.
Moso-Gothic.
Latham, of Norman-French, 43; classification of Magyar, 58, 130.
Bounds, 116; incompatible combinations, law Malay, words from, 418.
of accommodation, 134, 135; breath arrested Malden on tumbling metres, 621.
and escaping, 142; dependent and independ- Malformations, 419.
ent sounds, 156; influence of Norman on An- Mallet quoted, 550.
glo-Saxon alphabet, 220; the article, 287; 8 If, Mandeville quoted, 81.
304; demonstratives, 308; derived verbs, 357; Man: field quoted, 502.
defective verbs, 360; conjunctions, 378; dimin- Manx, 61.
utives, 423; reflectives, 500; infinitives, 515; Massachusetts Indians, language of, 144.
adverbs, 523; disjunctives, 528; rhyme, 623. Massinger quoted, 379.
Latin, parent of Romanic, 9, 10; a dead language, Material nouns, 244.
10; described, 36; translated into French in Measures defined, dissyllabic, trisyllabic, 622.
English schools, 71; into English, 72; Grimm's Metalepsis, 596.
law applied to. 161, 162; alphabet (see Roman), Metaphor, 597.
180; gender, 247, 249; number, 255; word de- Metathesis, 160.
clined, 201, 263; comparison, 272; article, 285, Metre, 621.
287; pronouns, 290, 296, 298, 299, 300; possess Methinks explained, 506.
ive, 302; reflective, 303; demonstratives, 308; Metonymy, 508.
verb inflected, 323; imperfect tense, 327; fu- Middle, undistributed, 474.
ture, 328; participles, 338; prefix com, 339; Mill, J. S., science and art, 236; quoted, 505,
auxiliaries, 341, 343; English impersonals, 350; Milman quoted, 615.
defective verbs, 360; adverbs,: 61, 366; prepo.
sitions, 371, 375; conjunctions, 379; i terjec-
tions, 381; elements of Inglish, 63, 383; de-
monstrative element, 385; words compared
with English compounds, 393; compounds,|
394; words to be separated from Greek, cog-
nate roots to be noted, other guides for study
Milton, spelling of preterits, 226; use of highth,
233; gender in personification, 248; use of
chiefest, 276; use of methinks, 359; use of
tharart, 373; use of case absolute, 481; incor
rect use of superlative, 430; use of myself,
500; of all, 528; of was run, 530; entipsis, 551;
aposiopesi, 550; metonymy, personification,
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