id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 191679036 Maclaren Volume 10, GOT-Hydrodynamics 1823 .txt text/plain 921205 59162 78 ADJECTIVES, or those words which express as inhering in their substances the several qualities of things, of which the essence consists not in motion or its privation; as, good, bad, black, white, large, small, &yc. adjectives ought in strictness to admit of no variation respecting sex or number ; and in English they actually admit of none; Some qualities, however, are of such a nature, that one substance may have them in & greater degree than another j and therefore the adjectives denoting these qualities admit in most languages ment forget the use oi speech* In books they are thrown into sentences without altering their form either in syntax or in signification ; and in English this is generally done with a very bad effect, though the writer no doubt employs them with a view to pathos or embellishment. ./cache/191679036.txt ./txt/191679036.txt