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TABLE I.

A GENERAL VIEW OF THE CLASSIFICATION OF WORDS.

NOTE. In the table the word things is employed in its philosophical
sense, as including all the independent objects of thought, whether per-
sons, material things, or mere abstractions.

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Without its essential elements, language could not exist at all; with-
out its descriptive elements, it would be vague and meagre; without its
connective elements, it would be disjointed; and without its instinctive ele-
ments, it would want sensibility and passion.

TABLE I.

A GENERAL VIEW OF THE CLASSIFICATION OF words.

NOTE. In the table the word things is employed in its philosophical sense, as including all the independent objects of thought, whether persons, material things, or mere abstractions.

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Without its essential elements, language could not exist at all; without its descriptive elements, it would be vague and meagre; without its connective elements, it would be disjointed; and without its instinctive elements, it would want sensibility and passion.

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