This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED. F.--Well. Now for your four Abbreviations: which, you say, we have adopted from those other languages. H.--That which I call the Potential Passive Adjective i that which our antient writers first adopted; and which we have since taken in the greatest abundance ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED. F.--Well. Now for your four Abbreviations: which, you say, we have adopted from those other languages. H.--That which I call the Potential Passive Adjective i that which our antient writers first adopted; and which we have since taken in the greatest abundance: not led to it by any reasoning, or by any knowledge of the nature of the words; but by their great practical convenience and usefulness. I mean such words as the following, whose common termination has one common meaning. These words, and such as these, our early authors could not possibly translate into English, but by a periphrasis. They therefore took the words themselves as they found them: and the same practice, for the same reason, being followed by their successors; the frequent repetition of these words has at length naturalized them in our language. But they who first introduced these words, thought it necessary to explain them to their readers: and accordingly we find in your manuscript New Testament, which (whoever was the Translator) I suppose to have been written about the reign of Edward the third '; in that manuscript we find an explanation accompanying the words of this sort which are used in it. And this circumstance sufficiently informs us, that the adoption was at that time but newly introduced. "I do thankingis to God up on the Unenarbable, or, that may not be told, gifte of hym."--2 Corinthies, cap. 9. "Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift."--Modern Version, ver. 15. "Whom wliannc ye han not seyn ye louen, in to whom also now ye not seynge bileuen, forsoth ye bileuynge shulen haue ioye with outeforth in gladnesse Unenarbable, that may not be teld out."--1 Petir, cap. 1. "Whom having not seen, ye love; in...
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