oes it
generally express?--Compare some adverbs.--By what signs may an adverb
be known?--Give examples.--Repeat some _adverbial phrases_.--Name the
different classes of adverbs.--Repeat some of each class.--Repeat the
order of parsing an adverb.--What rule do you apply in parsing an
adverb?

QUESTIONS ON THE NOTES.

Repeat some adverbs that are formed by combining prepositions with
adverbs of place.--Repeat some that are composed of the article _a_ and
nouns.--What part of speech are the words, _therefore, consequently_,
&c.?--What words are styled _adverbial conjunctions_?--Why are they so
called?--Is the same word sometimes used as an adjective, and sometimes
as an adverb?--Give examples.--What is said of _much_?--By what rule can
you distinguish an adjective from an adverb?--Do prepositions ever
become adverbs?

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PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES.

As the happiness and increasing prosperity of a people essentially
depend on their advancement in science and the arts, and as
language, in all its sublime purposes and legitimate bearings, is
strictly identified with these, it may naturally be supposed, that
that nation which continues, through successive generations,
steadily to progress in the former, will not be neglectful of the
cultivation and refinement of the latter. The truth of this remark
is illustrated by those who have, for many ages, employed the
English language as their medium for the transmission of thought.
Among its refinements may be ranked those procedures by which verbs
and nouns have been so modified and contracted as to form what we
call adverbs, distributives, conjunctions, and prepositions; for I
presume it will be readily conceded, that conciseness, as well as
copiousness and perspicuity in language, is the offspring of
refinement. That an immense amount of time and breath is saved by
the use of adverbs, the following development will clearly
demonstrate. He who is successful in contracting one mode of
expression that is daily used by thirty millions, doubtless does
much for their benefit.

Most adverbs express in one word what would otherwise require two or
more words; as, "He did it _here_," for, He did it _in this place;
there_, for, _in that place; where_, for, _in what place; now_, for,
_at this time. Why_ means _for what reason; how--in what mind, mood,
mod