14. It is in the Active Voice... Because I speak of a

subject that acts.

15. It is in the Passive....... Because I do not speak of a subject that acts, but of a subject that is acted upon.

16. It is in the Infinitive..... Because I speak without any designation of person or number.

17. It is in the Present of the Infinitive. . (See No. 6.) 18. It is in the Perfect of the Infinitive. . (See No. 8.) 19. It is called a Participle.... Because it takes part of a Verb and part of a

Noun. It has the government of a Verb, but is applied to Nouns Substantive like an Adjective.

20. It is the Present of the Participle. . (See No. 6.) 21. It is the Perfect of the Participle. . (See No. 8.) 22. It is Active...

(See No. 14.)

23. It is in the Nominative.... Because it begins the

phrase and refers to a Verb which is to speak of

it.

24. It is in the Genitive. . . . . . Because it is the second

25. It is in the Dative...

of two Nouns Substantive, and depending upon or belonging to the first.

.. Because to, to the, characterize the Dative.

26. It is in the Accusative. . . . . Because it is ruled by

a Verb or by a Preposition governing the Accusative.

27. It is in the Vocative...... Because I address my

28. It is in the Ablative....

self to him or her.

Because it comes after a Verb Passive, or a Preposition governing the Ablative.

The deaf and dumb scholar being to give a further solution by this Second Table, of the words, "We had "understood," which he has been desired te parse, will point out No. 1, No. 5, No. 9, No. 11, and No. 14.

After seeing this operation will it still be doubted, whether the deaf and dumb scholar has seized the grammatical difference of the word submitted to him, with all the other words belonging to the same verb? But he is able to do the same with every other person, number, tense, mood, and conjugation, whatsoever.

This operation has effectually convinced academicians and other learned men, of various countries, that the deaf and dumb perfectly understand the metaphysic of verbs, and are capable of education as well as those who hear and speak. Even answers given in public exercises, to two hundred questions, in three different languages, (which makes the whole amount to six hundred) particularly on the 13th of August last, in presence of the Pope's Nuncio, and several of his illustrious and dignified brethren of the Church, are not deemed by the learned equally convincing, because they

might have been the effect of memory, independent of intelligence.*

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Any person who doubts the possibility of educating the deaf and dumb at any charity or ordinary school, after reading this book, must be a sceptic indeed; and whoever has taken upon himself the tuition of children who can hear and speak, and feels himself incompetent to instruct a deaf and dumb child, the sooner he resigns his profession altogether, the better.

CHAP. X.

Of the Fecundity of Methodical Signs out of the Sign for the infinitive of a Verb.

THE same operation or disposition of the mind, of the heart, of the body, &c. can be expressed by a verb, by a noun substantive, by a noun adjective, and sometimes by an adverb.

Since the operation or disposition of the same, there must necessarily be the same radical sign, to which are joined other signs to indicate in verbs the difference of their persons, their numbers, their tenses, and their moods; and in nouns, whether substantive or adjective, that of their cases, their numbers, and their genders, and to characterize nouns adjective, substantified or adverbified.

This radical sign is the sign for the infi

nitive of the verb. I take for example the verb "to love," in all its parts, whether active

or passive, with all the words derived from, or related to it; such as friendship, love, loved, lovely, loveliness; friend, lovelily, friendly, friendlily, lover, amateur, &c.

All these words have the same radical sign, which is that for the present of the infinitive of the verb to love. It is executed by looking at the object in question, and pressing the right hand strongly upon the mouth, while the left is laid upon the heart; then carrying the right with fresh vivacity to the heart, conjointly with the left, and concluding with the sign for the infinitive.

The pupil to whom I am dictating a lesson or a letter, must not mistake in the choice of any one of these words, which are upwards of two hundred and forty in number, comprising all the persons, numbers, tenses, and moods of the verb active and passive, the cases, numbers, and genders of the

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