The employment of the verb for the substantive in the present instance is an evidence of the antiquity of this play.

It is so easy to be eloquent,scarce a modern French novelist but has the gift of it by the ream; so easy to be philosophical,one has only to begin a few substantives with capitals; and withal it is so hard to be genial and agreeable.

The full meaning of the present class of verbs and substantives of the language could be advantageously transferred to the first, or second, or third syllable of the words, converting them into monosyllables.

The word patrician, more familiar to our ear than the substantive from which it is formed, came to imply much more than its original meaning.

Kitte-mau-giz-ze Sho-wain-e-min, is their common expression to an agentI am poor, show me pity, (or rather) charity me; for they use their substantives for verbs.

Charles Bucke, in his work misnamed "A Classical Grammar of the English Language," published in London in 1829, asserts, that, "Substantives in English do not vary their terminations;" yet he gives them four cases; "the nominative, the genitive, the accusative, and the vocative."

Mr. Thomson's poetical diction in the Seasons is very peculiar to him: His manner of writing is entirely his own: He has introduced a number of compound words; converted substantives into verbs, and in short has created a kind of new language for himself.

According to his own express rules for interpreting "a substantive without any article to limit it" and the "relative pronoun with a comma before it," he must have meant, that "to comes from Saxon and Gothic words" of every sort, and that the words of these two languages "signify action, effect, termination, to act, &c."

A peculiar use of the substantive after the preposition de, similar to the ordinary participial or adjectival use, as in the expression: Il n'y a que vous de sérieux.