King Finow, of the Tonga Islands, gave a fine speech, as Mr. Mariner tells us, at his coming to the throne; and it may be well said that he made it, as he had made it in thought, ere he came to the meeting.

What is meant by the reducing of a speech to a grammatical form, or to grammar, is not very clear. If a man would write a grammar of a speech, of which there is yet none, what could he do but show it forth as it is in the shape which its best speakers over the land hold to be its best? To hold that a tongue had no shape, or a bad one, ere a grammar of it was written, seems much like saying that a man had no face, or a bad one, till his likeness was taken.

HEADS OF MATTER.

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Free Breathings[1]
Breath-pennings[2]
Word-strain and Speech-strain[3]
Thing-names[4]
Thing-sundrinesses[4]
Thing Mark-words:
Sex[5]
Kindred[5]
Size[5]
Tale[6]-[9]
Outshowing Mark-words[10], [12]
Persons[11]
Suchness[12]
Pitches of Suchness[13]
Time-taking and Time-words[14]
Intransitive[14]
Transitive[15]
Cause Time-takings[15]
Time-giving[15]
Words in -ing[17]
Strong and Weak Time-words[18]-[26]
Sundriness of Time-taking[26]
Helping Time-words, can, may, shall, must[27]
Person, Tale, Mood, Time[27], [30]
Historic Time-wording[30]
Case[31]
Way-marks and Stead-marks[33]
Thought-wording, Speech-wording[35]
Twin Time-takings[35]
Speech-trimming[36]
Miswording[36]-[42]
Word-sameness[38]
Odd Wordshapes[42], [43]
Wordiness[44]
Hard Breathing[44]
Mark Time-words (Participles)[45]
Words of Speech-craft, and others[47]
Power of the Word-endings[83]
Goodness of a Speech[86]

SPEECH-CRAFT.

Speech-craft (Grammar), called by our Saxon fore-fathers Staef-craeft or Letter-craft, is the knowledge or skill of a speech.

The science of speech in the main, as offmarked from any one speech (Philology), may be called Speech-lore.

Speech is the speaking or bewording of thoughts, and is of sundry kinds of words.