A Grammar of the Arabic Language according to the principles taught and maintained in the Schools of Arabia Volume 1 - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1813 Excerpt: ...by the word Lovn is less transient, by its own nature, than that signified by the word ANGER; whence we derive the adjective ANGRY, a simple attributive, employed to denote the EXISTENCE, not not the OCCURRENCE of anger, in its proper object or gqbstgntg-,5 noun. If the word Lovait be an C: ti) I fa, l, it fonows; therefore, that the attribute signified by this noun is not necessai rily of a transient character; since Loviz may continue to endure for ever. ' Bur I am unwilling to enter into this argument, having. already stated my opinion that the classification of verbs into; neuter and transitive is really imperfect in its own nature; being founded, chiefly, on the usage of Language, with little regard' to the nature of things. And if it be true, asl believe, that there are as many species of the J; Li) I rm I as there are species of transitive verbs; and as many species of the simple attribntive,-as there' are species of intransitive verbs;' it follows that an improved classification of verbs can alone determine the In 'Q U true nature of" the distinction between' the J: LU I F,» I and" the-' 1 _ 4 simple attribtftive, whiclfl confess that I'arn unable to resolves":00; in » _._..,,.4_ _ THE J: ail-wl differs from the active participles of our Language, merely as the word Lovna differs'frorn the word Lov mc; that is to say, as AN nririmr differs from AN Anincrivn noun. We cannot speak of A Lovnn ACTION, because an action is utterly incapable of love or hatred"; but we may speak of A LOVING ACTION, meaning "an action which indicates the love of the agent." It is plain, therefore, that the relation signified by '0 _9 0 the J: ls) I IN l is really srncmc by its own nature; whereas ...
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