16 Dec r. 1815

Chrestom. or Language

Ch.11 Propositions

This motion may be considered as the manifestation of a correspondent quality in the subject - viz. an active quality, an active quality which is represented as having, on the occasion in question at the moment in question, been resident in one of the two subjects in question, viz. Eurybeades.

In the other instance, the being struck may be considered as the manifestation of a correspondent quality of the passive cast, which is represented as having been on that same occasion, at that same moment, resident in the other of the two subjects in question, viz. Themistocles.

And here may be seen the origin and explanation of two species of Verb - the Verb active and the verb passive, or (to speak in the language [of] the past and present race of grammarians by whom an ample cluster of words are spoken of as if they were all together but one word to which real aggregate and imaginary unit[?], they give the name of a verb, i.e. one verb) the active voice and the passive voice of the verb.