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Hume, Alexander

"Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue A Treates, noe shorter than necessarie, for the Schooles"

Thee is the accusative of thou; as, thou loves God,
and God loves thee. The is the determined not of a noun, of q_uhi_lk we
spak cap. 3, sect. 3.


OF THE CONJUNCTION.
Cap. 12.

1. Conjunction is a word impersonal serving to cople diverse senses. And
of it ther be tuoe sortes, the one enu_n_ciative, and the other
ratiocinative.
2. The conjunction enunciative copies the partes of a period, and are
copulative, as and; connexive, as if; disjunctive, as or; or discretive,
as howbe it.
3. The ratiocinative coples the partes of a ratiocination, and it either
inferres the conclusion or the reason.
4. Therfoer inferres the conclusion; as, noe man can keep the law in
thought, word, and deed: and therfoer noe man befoer the judg of the
hart, word, and deed, can be justifyed be the law.
5. Because inferres the reason; as, I wil spew the out, because thou art
nether hoat nor cald.


OF DISTINCTIONES.
Cap. 13.

1. A distinction is quherbe sentences are distinguished in wryting and
reading. And this is perfect or imperfect.
2. A perfect distinction closes a perfect sense, and is marked with a
round punct, thus . or a tailed punct, thus ?
3. The round punct concludes an assertion; as, if Abraham was justifyed
be workes, he had quherof to glorie.


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