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[102-252r] 1831 Oct 26 Language
[102-252r]

1831 Oct 26

Language

Practical

Improvem.

§2.II Copiousness

 Speak of Copiousness and its addition to improvements before speaking of its opposite [...?] or say scantness: because[?] who[?] by the view of copiousness and [...?] taken of its addition to the beneficial effects impressed with the conception[?] of its desirableness, mind will[?] be[?] the the [...?] proposed and disposed to see [...?...?] to the attack which will be made against scantness, and the support which under the eulogistic name of purity it receives from prejudice, deeprooted prejudice.

1. Instruments, by which the enrichment has been produced, or is producible, these

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1. Enlargement if not completion of the stock of conjugates [...?] evident in its two divisions: namely

2. Conjugate or say aggregate of the 1 st. order. These may be also termed Gramatical conjugates, being those aggregates which consist of the several specific stock afforded by mode[?] of the parts of speech as may be [...?] inflective, namely, 1. The Noun Substantive. 2. The Pronoun Substantive. - 3. the Noun Adjective: 4. the Pronoun Adjective.

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III. Composition - jumble of one part of speech to another.

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Any substantive [...?], or say employing substantive be proposed the part of adjectives when united with and prefixt head of the to nouns[?] substantive. Examples Say, Hosepery[?] &c.

IV. Coinage of new locutions:[?] initially[?] single[?] terms and phrases. In French the operation has been stiled Neology Neological [...?] - the term given to a sort of thinking to [...?] the [...?] of which are all of them so many words or phrases brought into use within the [...?] last 50 years or less.
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