The Grammar of English Grammars

by Goold Brown

P.

P, its name and plur. numb., —its sound, —when silent, —Ph, its sounds.

Pairs, words in, punct. of.

Palatals, what consonants so called.

Parables, in the Scriptures, see Allegory.

Paragoge, explained.

Paragraph mark, for what used.

Paralipsis, or apophasis, explained.

Parallels, as marks of reference.

Parenthesis, signif. and twofold application of the term,
—Parenthesis, marks of, (see Curves.)
—What clause to be inclosed within the curves as a PARENTHESIS, and
what should be its punct.,
—Parentheses, the introduction of, as affecting unity.

Parsing, defined.
—Parsing, its relation to grammar,
—what must be considered in,
—the distinction between etymological and syntactical, to be
maintained, against KIRKH. et al.,
—character of the forms of etymological adopted by BROWN,
—what implied in the right performance of,
—whether different from analysis,
—what to be supplied in.
—Parsing, of a prep., how performed,
—of a phrase, implies its separation,
—the RULES OF GOVERNM., how to be applied in,
—of words, is not varied by mere transposition.
—Parsing, etymological and syntactical, in what order to be taken,
—the SENSE, why necessary to be observed in; what required of the
pupil in syntactical,
—syntactical, EXAMPLE of.
—Parsing or CORRECTING, which exercise perh. the more useful.

Participial adjectives, see Adjectives, Participial.

Participial or verbal noun, defined,
—how distinguished from the participle.
—Participial noun and participle, the distinction between, ill
preserved by MURR. and his amenders.
—Participial noun, distinc. of VOICE in, sometimes disregarded,
("The day of my BURYING,")
—with INFIN. following, strictures on MURR., LENN., and BULL.,
with respect to examples of.

PARTICIPLES, Etymol. of. —Participle, defined. —Participles, whether they ought to be called verbs, —appropriate naming of the kinds of, —often become adjectives, —become adjectives by composition with something not belonging to the verb, —number of, simp. and comp., —imply time, but do not divide it, —retain the essential meaning of their verbs, but differ from them in the formal, —in Eng., from what derived, —H. TOOKE'S view of the time of; with whom BROWN differs. —Participles, Classes of, named and defined, —(See Imperfect Participle and Perfect Part.) —Participles, grammarians differ in their opinion with respect to the time and voice of, —how have been called and treated by some, —explanation of the different, —how distinguished from particip. nouns, —elegantly taken as plur. nouns, ("All his REDEEMED,") —appar. used for adverbs, —some become prepositions. —Participle and ADJUNCTS, as forming "one name," and as such, governing the poss., whence the doctrine; PRIESTL. criticised; MURR. et al. adopt PRIESTL. doctrine, which they badly sustain; teachers of do. disagree among themselves, —governm. of possessives by, how BROWN generally disposes of; how determines with respect to such governm. —Participles, Synt. of, —regular synt. of, twofold; nature of the two constructions; OTHER less regular constructions; which two constructions of all, are legitimate uses of the participle; which constructions are of doubtf. propriety. —Participles, to what RELATE, or in what state GOVERNED. —Participle, as relating to a phrase or sentence, —taken abstractly, —irregularly used in Eng. as substitute for infin. mood, —in irreg. and mixed construc. —Participle, transitive, what case governs, —nom. absol. with, to what equivalent, —each requires its appropriate FORM, —questionable uses of, admitted by MURR. et al.; why BROWN is disposed to condemn these irregularities. —Participle and particip. noun, distinction between, with respect to governm. —Participle in ing, multiplied uses of, lawful and forced, illustrated, —equivalence of do. to infin. mood, instances of, —every mixed construc. of, how regarded by BROWN, —the "double nature" of, CROMB. on; his views, how accord with those of MURR. et al., HILEY'S treatment of; BROWN'S strictures on do. —Participles, place of: —active, governm. of. —Participle, trans., converted to a noun: —converted, when the expression should be changed: —followed by an adj., its conversion into a noun appar. improper: —comp. converted, how managed: —not to be used for infin., or other more appropriate term: —use of, for a nominative after be, is, was, &c., faulty: —following a verb of preventing, how to be managed. —Participles, converted, disposal of their adverbs: —must be construed with a regard to the leading word in sense: —should have a clear reference to their subjects: —needless use of, for nouns, to be avoided: —punct. of: —derivation of: —poet. peculiarities in the use of.

Parts of speech, meaning of the term:
—Parts of speech, named and defined:
—what explanations may aid learners to distinguish the different:
—why needful that learners be early taught to make for themselves the
prop. distribution of:
—WILS. on the distribution of:
—the preferable number with respect to; the office of, specifically
stated.
—The parts of speech, passage exemplifying all.
—Examples of a partic. part of speech accumulated in a sentence.
—Etymol. and Synt. of the different parts of speech, see Article,
Noun, Adjective, &c.

Passions of the mind, by what tones to be expressed.

Passive verb, defined.
—Pass. verbs contrasted with active-trans, verbs, in respect to the
object or the agent of the action; their compos, and construc.:
—their FORM in Eng.
—Pass. verb BE LOVED, conjug. affirmatively.
—Pass. verbs, how distinguished from neuters of the same form:
—having active forms nearly equivalent to them, (is rejoiced,
rejoices; am resolved, know, &c.,):
—erroneously allowed by some to govern the obj. case in Eng.; CROMB.
in this category, cited, canon, pseudo-canons.
—Pass. verb, what should always take for its subj. or nom.:
—takes the same case after as before it, when both words refer to the
same thing:
—between two nominatives, with which should be made to agree,
("Words ARE wind,"). See Unco-Passive, &c.

Passive form of an active-intrans. verb followed by a prep. and its objective, ("He WAS LAUGHED AT,"). Passive sense of the act. form of the verb, ("The books continue SELLING,").

Past for future, see Prophecy.

Pauses, term defined. —Pauses, kinds of, named and explained: —the distinctive, duration of: —after what manner should be formed: —forced, unintentional, their effect: —emphatic or rhetorical, applicat. and office of: —harmonic, kinds of; these, essential to verse. —Pauses, abrupt, punct.: —emphatic, do.

Pedantic and sense-dimming style of charlatans &c., as offending against purity.

Pentameter line, iambic, examples of:
—is the regular Eng. HEROIC; its quality and adaptation:
—embraces the elegiac stanza:
—trochaic, example of, said by MURR. et al. to be very uncommon;
was unknown to DR. JOH. and other old prosodists:
—the two examples of. in sundry grammars, whence came; a couplet of
these scanned absurdly by HIL.; HART mistakes the metre of do.:
—dactylic, example of, ("Salutation to America,").

Perfect, adj., whether admits of comparison; why its comparis. by adverbs not wholly inadmissible.

Perfect definition, what.

Perfect participle, or second part., defined:
—its form:
—how has been variously called:
—its character and name as distinguished from the imperf. part:
—why sometimes called the passive part.; why this name liable to
objection:
—how may be distinguished from the preterit of the same form:
—should not be made to govern an objective term. ("The characters
MADE USE OF," MURR.,):
—not to be used for the pret., nor confounded with the pres.:
—what care necessary in the employment of; when to be distinguished
from the preterits of their verbs.

Perfect tense, defined. —Perf. tense of indic., as referring to time relatively fut.

Period, or full stop, its pause. —Period, or circuit, nature of. —Period, probably the oldest of the points; how first used: —how used in Hebrew: —what used to mark: —Rules for the use of: —not required when short sentences are rehearsed as examples: —whether to be applied to letters written for numbers: —with other points set after it: —whether proper after Arabic figures used as ordinals. —Period of abbreviation, whether always supersedes other points.

Permanent propositions, to be expressed in the pres. tense.

Permitting, &c., verbs of, see Commanding.

Personal pronoun, defined.
—Personal pronouns, simple, numb, and specificat. of:
—declension of:
—often used in a reciprocal sense, ("Wash YOU," &c.,).
—(See also It.)
—Personal pronouns, compound, numb. and specificat. of. 298:
—explanat. and declension of:
—CHURCH. account of:
—of the first and second persons, placed before nouns to distinguish
their persons.

Personification, defined,
—MURR. definition of, blamed,
—what constitutes the purest kind of,
—change of the gend. of inanimate objects by,
—whether it always changes the gender of anteced. term,
—agreem. of pronouns with their antecedents in cases of,
—Rule for capitals in do.,
—comp.,
—Personifications, CHURCH, on the determination of gender in,
—Personified objects, names of, put in the second pers., and why,
—how pronouns agree with,

Persons, term defined,
—Persons, named and defined,
—the distinction of, on what founded,
—Persons, numbers, &c., character of BROWN'S definitions of,
—Persons, in gram., nature of; absurd teachings of some
grammar-makers concerning,
—distinctions of, in written lang.,
—Person and number of a verb, what,
—Persons, second and third, of a verb, distinctive formations of,
—do., in Lat., shown,
—Person, nouns of the second, in Eng., in how many ways can be
employed,
—the third, put with the pron. I, by vulgarism, ("THINKS I to
myself,")
—the first, place of,
—Persons, whether the imperat. mood may have three,
—connected antecedents of different, agreem. of pron. with,
—connected nominatives of different, agreem. of verb with,

Perspicuity, as a quality of style, in what consists, —is essential in composition; BLAIR quoted, —the excellence of, —Precepts aiming at offences against,

Perversions of Eng. grammar, the design, in part, of BROWN'S code of synt, is to make intelligent judges of, —Perversions, literary, Crit. N. concerning,

Phonetics, phonography, phonotopy, BROWN'S estimate of; DR. JOH. cited,
—account of,
—TRENCH'S views of,
—Phonographic system of stenography, its practical value;
phonotopy, to what may be advantageously applied,

Phrase, defined,
—Phrase made the subject of a verb, how to be taken,
—Phrases, distinct, conjunctively connected, agreem. of verb with,
—distinct, disjunctively connected, do.,
—unconnected, do.,
—BAD phrases, examples of, from authors,
—do., corrected,
—Phrases or clauses, ellips. of, shown,
—Adverbial phrase, (so termed by some,) see Adverb.

Place or position of the different parts of speech, see Article, Noun, Adjective, &c.

Pleonasm, defined,
—Pleonasm, when allowable with respect to a pron.,
—in what instances impressive and elegant; when, the vice of ill
writing,
—occurs sundry times in the Bible,

Pluperfect tense, defined,
—Pluperf. tense, what implies when used conditionally; what, in the
negative form of supposition,
—how formed in the indic. mood; do. in the potential,
—indic. form of, put by enall. for pluperf. of the pot.,
—PLUPERFECT, signif. of the term; several innovators (as BULL., BUTL.,
et al.) have been fain to discard it,

Plural number, of nouns, how formed,
—of most nouns in Eng., is simple and regular,
—of nouns ending in a vowel preceded by a vowel,
—of do. in y preceded by a consonant,
—of do. in o preceded by a consonant,
—construc. of, when several persons of the same name are spoken of
("The Stuarts,")
—of prop. names, its formation,
—of nouns in i, o, u, or y, preceded by a consonant,
—when name and title are to be used together, ("The Miss
Bells,")
—of nouns in f,
—of nouns not formed in s or es,
—of compounds,
—of certain compound terms, ("Ave-Maries," &c.,)
—wanting to some nouns,
—of nouns of multitude,
—Plural, nouns made so by nature or art,
—of foreign nouns, 253,
—improperly formed by adding apostrophic s,
—of mere characters, how denoted,

Plurality, the idea of; see Unity, &c.

Poetic feet, treated, —(See Iambus, Trochee, &c.) —Poetic foot, of what consists, —Poet. feet, number to be recognized in Eng., —principal Eng., named and defined, —kinds of, which form ORDERS OF VERSE, —what combinations of, severally form dimeter, trimeter, &c., —(See Dimeter, Trimeter, &c.) —Poetic collocation of words, in prose, as offending against perspicuity, PREC. respecting, —Poetic diction, treated, —in what abounds, —Poetical Peculiarities,

Poetry, as defined by BLAIR, —character of its style, —aim and end of, —exterior distinction of, —why difficult, by a definition, to be distinguished from prose, —inept directions of some grammatists respecting the parsing of, —Poetry, every line in, should begin with a capital,

Points, or stops, the principal, named, and their forms shown,
—the purpose of,
—length of pauses denoted by,
—often variously used in different editions of the same work,
—origin of, See Punctuation.

Points of the compass, adjectives for; modes of varying them,

Possession, relation of, see Property.

Possessive case, defined, —Poss. case, how formed —disputes of the earlier grammarians respecting, —CARD. et al. attempt to revive exploded error concerning, —form of, —origin of, in Eng., —odd notions of some grammarians concerning the regular formation of —exceptions or irregularities in the formation of —Poss. case, PEI. on, criticised —ASH and PRIESTL. on the plur. —use of the two forms of, in pers. pronouns —of the simp. pers. pronouns, grammarians differ with respect to; should not be considered mere adjectives —are pronom. adjectives, according to DR. LOWTH and his followers, —whose doctrine BROWN canvasses, also, WEBSTER'S, WILSON'S, MURRAY'S —Poss. case, its equivalence to of and the objective, not a sameness of case, (in oppos. to Nix.) —of pronouns, not to be written with apostrophe —of nouns in appos., application of the possessive sign to —by what governed —whether the rule for, has true exceptions —appos. of one with an other, ("For DAVID my SERVANT'S sake,") the construc. examined —appar. in abstract construc., ("All MINE are THINE,") —as governed by a part, the construc. examined; COROL. —why the governm. of, should be limited to nouns only —whether before a real part., denotes the possession of something —Possessive sign, omission oL not a true ellips. —always implies a governing word, —how taken by compounds —liable to be added to adjunct of the former noun —whether it can be rightly added to separate adjectives, ("The GUILTY'S prayer,") —which noun of connected possessives takes —Poss. case, place and order of —generally equivalent to prep. of and the objective, —governed by something not expressed, ("St. Paul's,") —Possessives, connected, how to be taken, —Poss. singular, with s omitted, ("For CONSCIENCE' sake") —Poss. case of nouns sing, in ss, false teaching of KIRKH. et al., respecting the formation of —MURR. rule for the construc. of, why objectionable, —compounds embracing, lack uniformity in writing, —peculiarity of, with respect to correlatives, ("Father's son,") —Possessive relation between a portion of time and its correlative action, ("THREE YEARS' hard work" or, "Three years OF HARD WORK,") —Poss. case, appropriate form of, to be observed, —plural, with a noun in forced agreem., ("For OUR PARTS,") ib., N. iv: —needless use of, before a participle, ("In THEIR pronouncing the Greek,") —Possessive pronouns, my, thy, his, &c., how often should be inserted, or repeated

Potential mood, defined
—Potential mood, why so called; by what signs distinguished,
—may, like the indic., be used in asking questions; why by some
included in the subj.
—in what tenses used; nature of the imperf. tense
—formation and inflection of its tenses, shown in the verb LOVE,
conjugated,

Power of a letter, the powers of the letters, what meant by, when
spoken of,
—The power of a letter is not its sound, as MURR. et al incorrectly
teach
—The simple powers of the letters, many irreconcileable doctrines
have been advanced thereon; GARDINER'S notions concerning, stated in
brief,
—RUSH'S explanations of, his pretentious scheme of the alphab. how
estimated by BROWN
—The just powers of the letters, what, and how are to be learned,
—Powers of the letters, variable; how become so; WALK, cited

Praxis, defined; lit. signif. of the word, as from the Gr.

Precision, as a quality of style, in what consists, —Precepts aiming at offences against —conciseness, or brevity, as opposed to

Prefixes, their management in syllabication, R.:
—Explanation of
—import and character of the particles used as, in Eng.; the roots
to which prefixed, not always proper Eng. words
—Prefixes, ENG. or ANGLO-SAX.,
—Prefixes, poet, usage with respect to,

Preperfect participle, defined
—Preperf. part., its form
—its nature and name,

PREPOSITIONS, Etymol. of
—Preposition defined
—importance of a right use, and a right explan. of
—HARR. explanation of, as cited by LOWTH, stricture on HARR.
—its simplicity among the parts of speech; how should be explained in
parsing,
—no sufficient RULE for the synt. of, in most of the Eng. grammars,
Prepositions and their objects, as preceding the words on which
they depend, ("Of man's first disobedience, &c., Sing" MILC.,)
—Prepositions, what it is, to find the terms of relations of;
disput. text cited in illustration
—the special adaptation of; example of misuse by MURR., remarked on
—HARR., on the purpose for which almost all prepositions were orig.
formed, and on the nature of their relations; his views controverted
by BROWN,
—Prepositions and their governed objects, the true determination of;
examples of joint objects, and of joint antecedents, wrong views of
MURR. and his followers concerning this matter.
—Prepositions, two connected, for what different purposes used
—two coming together, ("FROM AMONG the just,")
—Prepositions complex, what their character, and how may be
resolved; are occasionally compounded by the hyphen
—Prepositions, how might be divided into classes; the inutility in
parsing of the division into "separable and inseparable;"

HALL'S absurd idea of a divis., noticed
—whether "two in immediate succession require a noun to be understood
between them," (NUTT.)
—words commonly reckoned, (in, on, of, &c.,) used after infinitives
or participles, in adverbial construc., ("Houses to eat and drink
IN")
—Prepositions, List of
—grammarians differ considerably in their tables of; do. concerning
the characteristics of; what BROWN supposes, in oppos. to the
assertion that "Every prep. requires an obj. case after it"
—LENN. and BULL. on "prepositions becoming adverbs," criticised
—MURR. on "prepositions appearing to be adverbs," criticised
—Preposition, whether it can be justly said to take a sent. for its
object
—Prepositions, words in the list of, sometimes used as other parts
of speech
—extension of the list of
—examples of the less usual, a, and others beginning with a
—do. of unusual ones beginning with b, c, or d
—unusual, quotations illustrating further the list of
—Preposition, RULE of synt. for the word governed by
—Prepositions, in Eng., govern no other case than the obj.; most,
may take the imperf. part. for their obj.
—The brief assertion, that "Prepositions govern the obj. case,"
wherein is exceptionable as the sole rule for both terms
—Prepositions, ellipt. construc. of, with adjectives, (in vain, in
secret, &c.)
—sometimes appar. govern adverbs
—Preposition, appar. governing a perf. part., ("To give it up FOR
LOST")
—Prepositions, Synt. of
—do., in what consists
—what RELATIONS, show; (see To and For)
—the parsing of; why tolerable writers are liable to err most in their
use of
—Preposition, the true terms of the relat. of, how may be discovered
—when beginning or ending a sent. or clause, what the construc.
—the terms of relation of, what may be; both usually expressed
—position of, with respect to the governed word
—Prepositions, several, dependent on one anteced. term, ("A
declaration FOR virtue and AGAINST vice," BUTL.)
—two coming together between the same terms of relat.; do. in the same
construc.; erron. remark of PRIESTL., MURR., et al., concerning the
latter
—Preposition, the separating of, from its noun, false doctrine of
LOWTH, MURR., et al., concerning
—Prepositions, prop, choice of
—do., with respect to the allowable uses of
—as adapted in meaning to two objects, or to more
—Preposition, ellips. or omiss. of, where ineleg.
—insertion of, when do.
—Prep. and its object, position of, in respect to other words
—do., punc. of
—Prep., ellips. of, shown
—Prepositions, derivation of
—poet. usage with respect to

Present tense, defined
—Pres. tense, described
—of the indic., used to express general truths
—deceased authors spoken of in, and why
—for the past, by Grecism; in animated narrative, for do., by enall.
—of the indic. and the subj., when preceded by as soon as, &c., to
what time, refers
—of the infin., what time is expressed by; expedients used to express
fut. time by
—of the INFINITIVE, the ROOT, or RADICAL VERB
—of the subj., its use, and how considered by some
—Pres. tense, sometimes improp. with the conjunc. that, ("Others
said, THAT it is Elias")

Preter, preterimperfect, &c., disused terms for past, imperfect, &c.
—Preter, prefix, its meaning

Preterit, defined
—Preterit, described
—its form and variations
—present tendency to a reg. orthog. of, to be encouraged
—groundless rule of some, for forming second pers. of, when the pres.
and the pret. are alike
—not to be used in forming the comp. tenses of a verb

Preventing, verbs of, with part., in stead of infin.
—what construc. is proper for

Primitive word, defined
—Primitive words regarded as such in Eng., may generally be traced
to ulterior sources

Principal parts, of a verb, (see Chief Terms)
—of a sent., how many, and what

Priscian, ancient grammarian, delivers the names of most of the Lat. letters

Progressive form of a verb, see Compound &c.

Pronominal adjectives, see Adjectives, Pronominal

PRONOUNS, Etymol. of
—Pronoun, definition of
—Pronouns in Eng., number of, and their variations
—nature of the representation by; are put substantively, relatively,
or adjectively; difference in these three modes of substitution
—Classes of, named, and defined; (see Personal Pronoun, Relative
Pron., and Interrogative Pron.)
—Pronouns, compound, constructional peculiarities of
—Pronouns, faultiness and discordance of most Eng. grammars, with
respect to the classification and treatment of; specification of
different modes of distribution by diff. authors
—Modifications of, named; these properties how distinguished in the
personal pronouns; do. how ascertained in the relat. and interrog.
pronouns
—Declension of; simp. personals declined; comp. personals do.; comp.
relatives do.
—appar. used for adverbs
—Pronouns, Synt. of
—Pronoun, agreem. of, with its anteced.
—do., with anteced. indefinite
—plur., put by enall. for the sing., agreem. of
—sometimes disagreeing with the anteced. in one sense, because taking
it in an other
—what the main point with respect to; what application of the rule of
agreem., in parsing
—Pronouns, agreem. of, with their antecedents, as affected by the
figures of rhetoric
—place of
—Pronoun, as representing a phrase or sentence
—under what circumstances can agree with either of two antecedents
—the parsing of, commonly requiring the application of two rules
—with suppressed anteced.
—needless introduction of, ("PALLAS, HER glass," BACON)
—with change of numb. in the second pers., or promisc. use of ye and
you
—must present the same idea as the anteced., and never confound the
name with the thing signified
—employment of the same, with respect to connected relative clauses
—in what instances the noun must be repeated, or inserted in stead
of
—should never be used to represent an adj., ("Be ATTENTIVE;
without WHICH," &c.)
—change of anteced. to accord with
—agreem. with collective nouns
—do. with joint antecedents
—do. with connected antecedents in apposition
—do. with connected antecedents emphat. distinguished
—do. with connected antecedents preceded by each, every, or no
—do. with connected antecedents of different persons
—agreeing with implied nominatives
—agreem. with disjunct antecedents
—what agreem. with disjunct. antecedents of different persons,
numbers, and genders
—do. with antecedents taken affirmatively and negatively
—do. with two antecedents connected by as well as, &c.
—ellips. of, shown
—punct. of, without pause
—Pronouns, derivation of, from Sax.
—poet. peculiarities of

Pronunciation, importance of an early habit of distinct
—how best taught to children
—Pronunc., as distinguished from elocution, what; how differs from
articulation
—Pronunc. of the Eng. lang., what knowledge requires; its
difficulties; whether we have any system of, worthy to be accounted a
STANDARD

Proof-texts, not to be perverted in the quotation, Crit. N.
—not quoted, but invented, by some, in their false illustrations
of gram.

Proper names begin with capitals —Comm. and proper name associated, how written —Prop. names, derivatives from, do. —(Names of Deity, see Deity.) —Prop. names, application of rule concerning; distinc. between do. and common appellatives —of places, comparative difficulty of writing them —modern compound, sparing use of hyphen in —Prop. names, what their relative importance in lang. —structure and signif. of; how should be written —of plur. form, preceded by def. art. —Prop. name, with def. art., acquires the import of a comm. —Proper, from a comm. noun personified —Prop. names of individuals, strictly used as such, have no plur.; prop. name, how made plur., and how then considered —when they form a plur., how form it —of persons, generally designate their sex —Prop. name, in appos. with an appellative —represented by which, ("Herod —WHICH is," &c.) —Prop. name and title, when taken together in a plur. sense, in what form to be written

Property, the relation of, how may be otherwise expressed than by the poss. case

Prophecy, the past tenses substituted for the fut., in the lang. of

Propositions, permanent, in what tense should be expressed

Propriety, as a quality of style, in what consists —its oppos., impropriety, what embraces —Precepts aiming at offences against

Prose and verse, in the composition of lang., how differ

PROSODY
—Prosody, of what subjects treats
—etymol. and signif. of the word
—Prosody, meagrely and immethodically treated in the works of many
grammarians
—undetermined usage as to what things belong to; how treated by some
of the old prosodists; account of SMETIUS'S treatise of; do.
GENUENSIS'S

Prosthesis, explained

Proverbs, their elliptical character

Provincial expressions, use of, as opposed to purity

PUNCTUATION, arranged under the head of Prosody
—Punct., what
—principal marks of, named and shown; what they severally denote
—RULES of: for Comma; for Semicolon; for Colon; for Period; for
Dash; for Eroteme; for Ecphoneme; for Curves
—description of the other marks of
—(See Comma, Semicolon, &c.)
—Punct., the present system of, in Eng., common to many languages
—why often found diverse, in diff. editions and diff. versions of the
same work
—duty of writers in respect to, and of publishers in reproducing
ancient books
—some account of the orig. and prog. of
—"improvement" in, which is no improvement
—confused and discordant explanations, by some, of certain of the
marks of

Purity, as a quality of style, in what consists
—Precepts aiming at offences against

Pyrrhic, defined