The Grammar of English Grammars

by Goold Brown

L.

L, its name and plur. numb. —of the class liquids —final, monosyllables ending in —final double, to what words peculiar —its sound; in what words silent —where doubled —written for a number

Labial letters, how articulated

Language, the primitive sense of the term, what embraced; signif. of do.,
as now used
—in opposition to some grammarians, BROWN confines the term to speech
and writing
—loose explanations of the word by certain slack thinkers; WEBST.
notion of
—SHERID. idea of; KIRKH. wild and contradictory teachings concerning
—Language, PROPRIETY of, in what consists; IMPROPRIETY of, what
embraces
—PRECISION of, in what consists; Precepts concerning its opposites
—Language, Eng., (see English Language)
—Languages, uniform SERIES OF GRAMMARS for teaching the Eng., Lat.,
and Gr., that of DR. BULL., noticed

Lay, pay, and say, how written in the pret. and the perf. part.

Leading principles in the construc. of sentences, in what embraced in the Grammar

Least parts of language, as written, as spoken, &c., what constituents so called

Legal phraseology, in contrast with that of common life

Less, improper use of, for fewer, ("No LESS than three dictionaries," DR. WEBST.)

Lest, use of, for THAT, without due regard to its import, ("I feared LEST," &c.) —derivation of, from Sax.

Let, verb, its construc, with an infin. following

LETTERS, in the Eng. alphabet, numb. of, and numb. of sounds which they
represent
—a knowledge of, in what consists
—infinite variety in, yet the letters always THE SAME
—different sorts of types, or styles of, used in Eng.
—names of, in Eng.; do., sing, and plur.
—Classes of, named and defined
—powers of
—the JUST POWERS of, (see Power)
—Forms of, and their distinctions, in the Eng. lang.
—different sorts of, to be kept distinct
—slanting strokes of the Roman, described
—Italic, chief use of
—capital, employment of
—small, do.
—Letters, history of
—the names of, are words of a peculiar kind
—the names and powers of, not always identical
—general neglect of learning to write the names of, in Eng.
—importance of learning to write do.
—erron. teaching with respect to certain names of
—Letters of the Heb. alphabet given, with their names, and the
significations of do.
—of the Gr. alphabet, with their names
—of the Lat. alphab., their names nearly lost
—of do., as now printed
—Letters, the twenty-six, possible combinations and mutations of
—of the alphab., read by their names, how taken
—do., written for numbers, what their nature; omission of period
after such letters
—DAY'S account of do.
—Letters, the SOUNDS of, treated
—Letters, the small, period of their adoption
—used for references
—Letter, definition of
—Letter, the sound of, called its POWER; yet its power not
necessarily identified with its sound
—A letter, in what consists Like, near, nigh, appar.,
prepositions; why not placed by BROWN with the prep. Lily, W.,
grammarian, his arrangement of Lat. syntax

Lines, poetic, technical denominations of

Liquids, what letters so called

Literary division of a work, common order of, downwards, and throughout;
but all literary works not thus divided. Literary blunders, Crit. N.
concerning
—awkwardness, do.
—ignorance, do.
—silliness, do.

Little, lesser, less, different uses and import of
—Little, much, &c., preceded by not, too, or other such adv., how
taken
—Less, improp. used as an adj. of number; does not signify fewer;
not to be used in the sense of do.
—Less, least, adv., to be parsed separately, in the comparison of
adjectives and adverbs

LOVE, verb active-trans., CONJUGATED affirmatively —BE LOVED, pass., do. —LOVE, conjug. negatively —do., interrogatively —do., interrogatively and negatively

Low and provincial expressions, use of, as opp. to purity, PREC. against

Ly, most common terminal of Eng. adverbs; added to nouns to form adjectives

(I,) u; 1055, b; 1053, L:
—when adverbs ending in, are preferable to those of other forms.