Lily, improved, corrected, and explained with the etymological part of the common accidence. By W. T. Master of a boarding-school at Fulham, near London, for above two and twenty years.

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Lily, improved, corrected, and explained with the etymological part of the common accidence. By W. T. Master of a boarding-school at Fulham, near London, for above two and twenty years.
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W. T.
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London :: printed for R. Bentley, in Russel-street, in Covent-garden,
MDCXCVI. [1696]
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English language -- Grammar -- Early modern, 1500-1799.
Latin language -- Grammar -- Early works to 1800.
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"Lily, improved, corrected, and explained with the etymological part of the common accidence. By W. T. Master of a boarding-school at Fulham, near London, for above two and twenty years." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A48527.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 9, 2024.

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Figurata Syntaxis.

VErba Insiniti Medi pro Nominativo Accusativum ante se statuunt.

Hic modus resolvi potest per, quòd & ut, aliquando per an, ne & quin, praecedente non; post videor non resol∣vitur.

Nomen multitudinis singulre quandoque Verbo plurali jungitur.

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Nominativus primae vel secundae personae (nisi discretio∣nis & emphasis causâ) & nominativus tertiae personae quando ejus significatio ad homines tantùm pertinet, rarò exprimitur.

Discretio vocatur cum diversa studia significamus; ut, tu nidum servas, ego ludo ruris amaeni—ri∣vos▪ Hor.

Emphasis est cum plùs significamus quàm expressè dicimus; ut, tu audes ista loqui, cantando tu illum? subaudi vicisti. Virg.

Aliquando Verbum infinitum, aliquando oratio, aut mem∣brum aliquando orationis, aliquando adverbium cum geni∣tivo, aut dictio aliqua materialitèr sumpta, supplet locum nominativi, substantivi aut anteedentis.

Duo nominativi singulares, duo substantiva, & duo an∣tecedentia singularia, intercedente conjunctione copulativâ, verbum, adjectivum, & relativum plurale requirunt, Quod quidem verbum, adjectivum & relativum, um nominati∣vo, substantivo, & antecedente, dignioris personae & dignio∣ris generis consentit, nisi quod in inanimatis neutrum genus dignius est.

Verbum substantivum inter duos nominativs diversorum numerorum, & relativum inter duo antecedentia diversorum generum ollocatum cum alterutro convenire potest.

Mobile fit fixum, si fixum mente subadis, (i. e.) Ad∣jectiva substantivè usurpata, ejus sunt generis cujus est sub∣stantivum intellectum.

Aliquando relativum, aliquando & nomen adjectivum respondet primitivo, quod in possessivo subintelligitur.

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