St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1883-05-12
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The fisherman would tell Us that
we should never jerk our line until
we have bite; but i fear friend
"Townsman" has pulled bis in a
little too soon. "Ne qaid minis.
my cautiously inclined critic; de-
fend yourself-we like to see it; but
restrain yourself within the pale Of
human reason, and hear us tout.
We unprecedented lest we should
arouse, arrest and decaritate some
walking Websterite, who would
blindly, bigotedly and pertinacious-
" adhere to Grammar, though it
lead him to cacophony, rather than
lie would violate one OF its precious
rules; but stop-weIl prove to you
that We were not erroneous in our
| last communication, and have not,
as yet, transgressed one Of your
sacredly fostered grammatical prin-
ciples, ere we close.
Most reyerentially and submits
sively do we bow in gratitude, in
behalf of your pardon for our
"lapsus penne." las you term it,
but we do not propose to palliate
what you alone would call errone-
GUS, when we are capable Of Vindi-
eating ourselves, ct whom you would
so ioyfully cavil, and of clearly and
demonstratively proving your utter
deficiency in the very science of
which you do so gloriously boast.
A glance at the etymology or
pedigree OF the adjective and edverb
reveals no difference at OIL: Both
parts Of speech are from ths Latin
language. objective, from the Latin
word Gdicio. to add to; and edysrd.
from the words, Id, to, and Ne-bum,
word, meaning joined. or add
ed to o word. The adye-b ;s used
to qualify and modify verhs. adj
jectives and ether adverbs, while
the adjective is used to serve the
same Office and ~ perform a like
duty to nouns and pronouns: hence,
the only difference between these
members Of the Enthusiastically" is
in the employment of them.
Now, It's quite true. we wrote |
"our friend 'Townsman' seems to
speak rather depreciatory of our
ETC., yet we did not do
60 from "nescientia," as we well I
knew the power of our word, but
preferred it, as we shall prove, to
either its sister, depreciotori7g, or ,
iepresiatively. We employed this
word correctly-by Grammar ? oh
no, e.r ,,su, to which Grammar sub
nits, for use is the father of Gram
mar. In substantiating this last
expression, we viii say, that the +
'ules of Grammar strictly forbid
,siny the obiect-relatiye, uhich, in
peakirg of persons; it tells us not
0 say 1.-THE man ashich gave me this !
'ook, is Dead" but 1.-THE man acho,"
tc. ''Never," it further remarks, {
use Which i'll reference to human !
eings." "Ha! ha! my child" eS- .
laims Father Use, "do we not say, {
Inch of those two gentlemen gave {
on that fower?" instead of "pho [
t those two gentlemen" ETC.? |
iranimas meekly bows her head !:
nd says, 'tCL! yes, that's SO; you're {
ght; that's very good; it expresses i
ach strong emphasis, and in fact is Q
'uch better than to sny, 'stho of !
lose, ETC., but / cannot acknowl- !
ige it, as my lew ovegrules it." u
Aow, exclaims the writer, as did $
Zen poor Grammar's m. Hsipce b
nphasis. euphony and energy are :
,metimes better expressed with I
1T you than with you, my daugt- p
+ Grammar, we will disregard o
,ur rules ut times. and say were $
ght. CT nsn.' Thus fof years 7