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John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Section S3
Section 741 of 1,114
Canonical reference B3.C7.S3
English
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This part of grammar has been perhaps as much neglected as some others over-diligently cultivated. It is easy for men to write, one after another, of cases and genders, moods and tenses, gerunds and supines: in these and the like there has been great diligence used; and particles themselves, in some languages, have been, with great show of exactness, ranked into their several orders. But though PREPOSITIONS and CONJUNCTIONS, &c., are names well known in grammar, and the particles contained under them carefully ranked into their distinct subdivisions; yet he who would show the right use of particles, and what significancy and force they have, must take a little more pains, enter into his own thoughts, and observe nicely the several postures of his mind in discoursing.
French
Pierre Coste · Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam, 1735, third edition
Cette partie de la Grammaire qui traite des Particules a peut-être été auſſi négligée que quelques autres ont été cultivées avec trop d’exactitude. Il eſt aiſé d’écrire l’un après l’autre des Cas & des Genres, des Modes & des Temps, des Gerondifs & des Supins. C’eſt à quoi l’on s’eſt attaché avec grand ſoin ; & dans quelques Langues on a auſſi rangé les particules ſous différens chefs avec une extrême apparence d’exactitude. Mais quoi que les Prépoſitions, les Conjonctions, &c. ſoient des noms forts connus dans la Grammaire, & que les Particules qu’on renferme ſous ces titres, ſoient rangées exactement ſous des ſubdiviſions diſtinctes ; cependant qui voudra montrer le véritable uſage des Particules, leur force & toute l’étenduë de leurs ſignifications, ne doit pas ſe borner à parcourir ces Catalogues : il faut qu’il prenne un peu plus de peine, qu’il réflêchiſſe ſur ſes propres penſées, & qu’il obſerve avec la derniére exactitude les différentes formes que ſon Eſprit prend en diſcourant.
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