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Ch.11 Practical

Improvement Modes

'.3 Copiousness

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4. By importation of words from other languages, dead or living.

5. By addition to, not to say completion of, each set of conjugates.

A noun, taken in its several cases and numbers; a verb, taken in its several moods, tenses, numbers, and persons. These aggregates may be considered as so many grammatical conjugates. By the term logical conjugate, may be designated the aggregate of these same aggregates, - the whole stock of the aggregates capable of being formed of those aggregates.

In the Greek and Latin lexicon, or, say Dictionary, of Scapula, may be seen the several lists, of logical conjugates made to grow out of the same root; say, out of some noun-substantive, taken in hand and considered as a root. Of the several branches, or, say ramifications, thus seen growing out of one and the same root, each one is expressive of an idea bearing a determinate relation to the idea designated by that same root.

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