New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-07-17
THE SCIENCE OF WORDS.


AMERICAN PATHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION.
SECOND DAY OF THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. AND
JfRfNiIAH-TiIE FORMATION or vEBBS-PRoNUN-
CITATION OF LATHAM FRESHMAN DIscoURsEs on
CELTIC GRiEVANCEs-TROY, CYPRUS, AND 1HE
CTsNoIA COLLECTION.
fFnoy A syAFs CoRRgs.oSrENr OF THE rRIBuNEl
NEyPoaT, July 14.-The Convention began
work at O'clock this morning The first paper read was
comparative view OF the language Of Deuteronomy ana
jeremiah by the Rev. Or. George r. Entlcr OF FranAin,
NY without copious supply OF Hebrew type TINS
paper cannot receive justice in the bricics abstract
n shows that certain Of the OF cod frequent
In jeremiah appear In Deuteronomy; that tle
ss,ne is true other gods whose idoatrOus worship Is
prohibited. The phraseo0gy used In referring To inc
Lyites or priests is always different in the two books
Many other similar differences as TO words were clted
The grammatical peeulaYies Of each writer were yet
more distinct discussing series OF instances OF these
differences by Euter gives The diverse views OF COM
uentaiors whether the Prophet actually went to the
Ruphratos hide the linen girde, or whether he only
made Journey of six miles and went through s. nboii
cal proceeding comparatively near home Aranlale words
and A-aac meanings of words frequent with Jeremiah
are altogether wanting in Deuteronomy The parallel
sIns the writer's suppose that the book Of
laws was written by Moses be accounted fOr on The
supposition that jeremiah Influenced by his studies
OF Deuteronomy aud his sympathy with IFS de'sncaions
condition their falling away from the Old standards
of religion and purity. What wonder that Jeremiah .
gtordnoes sounded like echo OF Deuteronomy There
arc l6 evident quct atoms the pant OF Jeremiah from
the caller work.
PAPFR BY PROF HARKNHss.
Dr. Enters paper succeeded ny one almost equally
Technical bat OF fm wider general interest Wherever
there is class Latin" said Of the members TO your
correspondent there will he some one man 1t least TO
whom Pref HdruCsss paper will he Interesting Ii dd
not probable that an essay entitled On Forms Tor
Completed Action in the Latin Finite Verb would provo
absorbny atractiye bat listened to very close
w. This per OF Prof. Albert Hardness Of Brown Uni
versity Will go record Of the most important de
Bvered at the present session At The close of his reading
something more than TIE usual formal expressions Of
Qualification heard on all sides.
Pro Hardness in paper read before This Association
Hast year aud pushed in t present volume of Transac
lions discussed the Gcult que Of The origin and
formation OF the Latin Perfect in ST. In che present pa
DER he has given the results OF his invest cations in re-
spect TO Poricct in al ii and T. The two papers supple
eIt each other and together present ne% and entirely
Independent treatment 0i one OF the most difficult subjects
In the whole range OF mpartVe phoosy Most OF the
prominent leaders the school OF linguistic science
-Bopp Curtus SchleCher, Cossen, and more recently
westpai and Moiuct-huye ven careful thought but
no one them has succeeded IN Gevisng any theory
which has met with general recognition among the
scholars Of the world. Prof HahDeej CIcls an entirely
new explanation which, nc tEnAs' nary mottS ~! INC
fsos in the large part OF his paper consisted OF
compact piece of argument which could be understood
only by professional fnOlOgist. aud the arg nicut more
over was founded upon wide survey Of verbal niiec
TONS only in the Latin hut also III the oantEut and
Greek IL is consequently diiicGlt to give amy bref
abstract which WOuld be- inte,igbc One or two points
me- however, well worth notice. The peculiar ending Of
the Latin Perfect, T. is ~ etc, which are entirely uh
like the endnrs Ol ary ohtr tense Ii the Latin Greek
o. SanskIit, Prof Hardness forms very directly ana
naturally, ho thinks from the reGugctcd stem OF Tie
auxiliary This bring ue Old Latin Perfect es O'
preserved IN compound Pcrie-ts IN ST. a. 9i INFO bar
yn0ny with he original tyyre OF the lndoEulOpean Per
fcO.--s result never before II yhod.
Prof Hardness ia classifying the several varieties OF
tho Lain Perfect selected tho following examples as
representative Of the several classes csi csi cccfnf
M clu .pd 0D,qp These STA yerDs represent al 1e
yaretios Of Poifo FOigua0n known 10 tho Lau Ian
gusee. Iie, Indicted follows: