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sil'ent; as, a boy, a girl' or girl', a ro'fe, a woman, a

youth', a horse, a hoûfe, a hundred; an aw'l, an egg',

an i'dol, an ox', an heir, an hour, an hon'or, a hoû'nd.

and to all' fuch' as may be numbered-one, two, three;

as alfo to the adjectives few and many (the latter with

the word great, before it ;) as, a man', a boy', a wom'an,

a lady, a virtue, a toîl'et, an a'rmy, a mul'-titude, a

doz'en, a score, a hundred, a thoû'fand, a million, a

pen'ny, a fhill'ing, a crown', a dollar, a guinea, an oûnce,

a poû'nd, a vice, an ide'a or ide'a, a bull', a coŵ', an

much', can'not be u'fed in the fi'ngular (or sing'ul-ar) nor

to the Fren'ch article, le, la, le's: it is u'fed in all' the

genders and numbers, and defin'es or point's oût' the

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fenfe of the word' befo're which' it plac'ed; as, I know'

the gentleman; the lady fing's; the rule is inva'ria

ble, i. e. the partic'ular gen'tleman, lad'y or ru'le in

RULE 5th. The word's better, beft, worf'e, worst,

ta'ke the defin'ite art'icle; as, he got' the bet'ter of it;

make the best' of it; it is not the worf'e for the wea'r

ing; I fea'r the worft'; the mo're you have, the more

you defi're; the moft' was mad'e of that' mat'ter; the

RULE 6th. As the ad'jective is almost always put'

befo're its fub'ftantive; fo' is the article prefix'ed to

bo'th; as, a good' man', an a'miable wom'an, a pretty

bird, a han'dfome thing', the good' man' or men', the

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oût' an article, viz. pro'per nam'es; as, Geo'rge, Britain,

London; nam'es of a'rts, fci'ences, metals, grain, vict

uals, ab'stract noûn's, and all' fuch' as ha've no' plural ;

as, husbandry, philofophy, mu'fic, gold or go'ld, filver,

i'ron, brafs, wheat', ba'rley, bread, milk', flesh',

ven'ifon, wa'ter, bee'r, win'e, vir'tue, vic'e, love, ha'tred:

yet', we fay the Thames, the Tweed'; because river is

husbandry of the foûth', the go'ld you gave me, the vir

tue of chaft'ity, the hor'rid vic'e of ingratitude.

RULE 8th. Some (a part or po'rtion) may be called

the part'titive article, and an'fwers to the Fren'ch du, de la,

de l', de's, quelque; as, fom'e bread', du pain, fom'e pow'.

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pains, fom'e hifto'rian, would' ha've mentioned it', quelque

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quality, of a perf'on, place or thing'; wheth'er re-al or

ima'g 'ginary: and fuch' noûns or nam'es are either pro'per

RULE 2. Proper nam'es are all' fuch' as express' a

partic'ular per'son, plac'e or thing, fo' as to disti'ng-ûish

them from oth'ers of the fa'me kind; as, Geo'rge, Ti'tus,

Charlotte, Penelope, Brit'ain, or Britan'nia, Middlesex,

London, Kent', Edinburgh, Inverness', Fife, the Thames.

RULE 3. Common names are all' fuch' as exprefs' a

who'le kind, withoût diftinc'tion; as, man', an'imal,

horf'e, bird', fifh', king', king-dom, fwo'rd, hoûf'e, ta'ble,

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takes fo'metimes a plural, fometimes a si'ng-ular verb;

a's, the vulgar a're ba'd judges; yet', they will' judge:

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and cafes. Sub'ftantives ha've two nu'mbers, viz. the

sing'ular and the plural. The si'ng-ular expreffes one

or un'ity; as, a man, an a'rmy, a troop', a book ;

man', the a'rmy, the troop', the book'; and the plural