Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue: A Treates, noe shorter than necessarie, for the Schooles — David Hume — John Shaqi
Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue: A Treates, noe shorter than necessarie, for the Schooles
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2. An adverb is a word adhering mast com_m_onlie w_i_th a verb with one
face in al moodes, tymes, nu_m_beres and persones; as, I leve hardlie,
thou leves hardlie; I did leve hardlie; I have leved hardlie; I had
leved hardlie; I wil leave hardlie; leve he hardlie; God forbid he leve
hardlie.
3. Our men confoundes adverbes of place, q_uhi_lk the south
distinguishes as wel as the latin, and therfoer let us not shame to
learne.
4. They use quher, heer, ther, for the place in q_uhi_lk; quhence,
hence, thence, for the place from quhilk; quhither, hither, thither, for
the place to q_uhi_lk; as, quher dwel you? quhence cum you? quhither goe
you?
5. They also distinguish wel in, into, and unto: in, they use with the
place quher; into, with the thing quhither; and unto, for how far; as,
our father, q_uhi_lk art in heavin, admit us into heavin, and lift us
from the earth unto heavin.
6. Heer, becaus sum nounes incurre into adverbes, let us alsoe noat
their differences.
7. First no and not. Noe is a noun, nullus in latin, and in our tongue
alwayes precedes the substantive quhilk it nulleth; as, noe man, noe
angle, noe god.
8. Not is an adverb, non in latin, and in our tong followes the verb
that it nulleth; as, heer not, grant not; I heer not, I grant not; I wil
not heer, I wil not grant.
9. Ane, in our idiom, and an. Ane is a noun of nu_m_ber, in latin unus;
an a particule of determination preceding a voual, as we have said cap.
3, sect. 4.
10. Thee and the. Thee is the accusative of thou; as, thou loves God,
and God loves thee. The is the determined not of a noun, of q_uhi_lk we
spak cap. 3, sect. 3.
OF THE CONJUNCTION.
Cap. 12.
1. Conjunction is a word impersonal serving to cople diverse senses. And
of it ther be tuoe sortes, the one enu_n_ciative, and the other
ratiocinative.
2. The conjunction enunciative copies the partes of a period, and are
copulative, as and; connexive, as if; disjunctive, as or; or discretive,
as howbe it.
3. The ratiocinative coples the partes of a ratiocination, and it either
inferres the conclusion or the reason.
4. Therfoer inferres the conclusion; as, noe man can keep the law in
thought, word, and deed: and therfoer noe man befoer the judg of the
hart, word, and deed, can be justifyed be the law.
5. Because inferres the reason; as, I wil spew the out, because thou art
nether hoat nor cald.
OF DISTINCTIONES.
Cap. 13.
1. A distinction is quherbe sentences are distinguished in wryting and
reading. And this is perfect or imperfect.
2. A perfect distinction closes a perfect sense, and is marked with a
round punct, thus . or a tailed punct, thus ?
3. The round punct concludes an assertion; as, if Abraham was justifyed
be workes, he had quherof to glorie.
4. The tailed punct concludes an interrogation; as, sal we, quha are
dead to syn, leve to it?