; GARDINER'S notions concerning, stated in
brief,
--RUSH'S explanations of, his pretentious scheme of the alphab. how
estimated by BROWN
--The _just powers_ of the letters, what, and how are to be learned,
--_Powers_ of the letters, variable; how become so; WALK, cited

_Praxis_, defined; lit. signif. of the word, as from the Gr.

_Precision_, as a quality of style, in what consists,
--Precepts aiming at offences against
--conciseness, or brevity, as opposed to

_Prefixes_, their management in syllabication, R.:
--Explanation of
--import and character of the particles used as, in Eng.; the _roots_
to which prefixed, not always proper Eng. words
--_Prefixes_, ENG. or ANGLO-SAX.,
--_Prefixes_, poet, usage with respect to,

_Preperfect participle_, defined
--_Preperf. part._, its form
--its nature and name,

PREPOSITIONS, Etymol. of
--_Preposition_ defined
--importance of a right use, and a right explan. of
--HARR. explanation of, as cited by LOWTH, stricture on HARR.
--its simplicity among the parts of speech; how should be explained in
parsing,
--no sufficient RULE for the synt. of, in most of the Eng. grammars,
_Prepositions_ and their objects, as preceding the words on which
they depend, ("_Of man's first disobedience, &c., Sing_" MILC.,)
--_Prepositions_, what it is, to find the terms of relations of;
disput. text cited in illustration
--the special _adaptation_ of; example of misuse by MURR., remarked on
--HARR., on the purpose for which almost all _prepositions_ were orig.
formed, and on the nature of their relations; his views controverted
by BROWN,
--Prepositions and their governed objects, the true determination of;
examples of joint objects, and of joint antecedents, wrong views of
MURR. and his followers concerning this matter.
--_Prepositions_, two connected, for what different purposes used
--two coming together, ("FROM AMONG the _just_,")
--_Prepositions complex_, what their character, and how may be
resolved; are occasionally compounded by the hyphen
--_Prepositions_, how might be divided into classes; the inutility in
parsing of the division into "_separable_ and _inseparable_;"

HALL'S absurd idea of a divis., noticed
--whether "two in immediate succession require a noun to be understood
between them," (NUTT.)