A polyglot grammar; of the Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, Greek, Latin, English, French, Italian, Spanish, and German languages
Samuel Barnard
Paperback
(RareBooksClub.com, March 6, 2012)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 Excerpt: ...it supersedes the repetition of a noun which has just been used; as, the man is good, he is benevolent, instead of the man is benevolent; or, that it is often the subject, and that the noun to which it has reference, follows, as the predicate of the proposition; as, he is a good man, instead of, the man is a good man. And whether used with or without a nou it has always reference to objects T« iivrtit yiwrtat, or to those wi which we had a previous acquaintance. 20G CONCLUDING REMARKS. 414. A pronoun is to be considered as the subject, and the following noun, the place of which it occupies, as the predicate, when such pronoun has the force of a very strong 3k$ or demonstration; and, as the Greek, together with the Hebrew and its dialects, can express the nominative in the very construction of the verb, without the immediate presence of the pronoun, which is the subject; so the noun following, when it is the predicate, has no article. 415. The verb, always retains its explicit mode of recording action, passion or being, with respect to time, and requires such a conciseness in expressing the divisions of time, as will best express its purpose. 416. The Greek and Latin alone, have really conjugationally, a mode f expressing time's action, with reference to more, than past, present and future. 417. The English is, properly speaking, acquainted only with those two philosophical distinctions of time, which appear in the Hebrew and its dialects; and if we divest the verb9 in French, Italian, Spanish and German, of their conjugated endings, which are but parts of the verbs to have or to be, we shall see them reduced to a past and indefinite or future tense. And especially we shall see, that what are called irregular verbs, are very philosophical, because very ...