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_Perfect definition_, what

_Perfect participle_, or _second part_, defined: --its form: --how has been variously called: --its character and nauished from the imperf part: --why sometimes called the _passive part_; why this nauished froovern an objective term (”_The characters_ MADE USE OF,” MURR,): --not to be used for the pret, nor confounded with the pres: --what care necessary in the euished from the preterits of their verbs

_Perfect tense_, defined

--_Perf tense_ of indic, as referring to time relatively fut

_Period_, or _full stop_, its pause

--_Period_, or _circuit_, nature of

--_Period_, probably the oldest of the points; how first used: --how used in Hebrehat used to mark: --Rules for the use of: --not required when short sentences are rehearsed as examples: --whether to be applied to letters written for numbers: --with other points set after it: --whether proper after Arabic figures used as ordinals

--_Period of abbreviation_, whether always supersedes other points

_Permanent_ propositions, to be expressed in the pres tense

_Per_

_Personal pronoun_, defined

--_Personal pronouns_, simple, numb, and specificat of: --declension of: --often used in a reciprocal sense, (”_Wash_ YOU,” &c,)

--(See also _It_) --_Personal pronouns_, compound, numb and specificat of 298: --explanat and declension of: --CHURCH account of: --of the first and second persons, placed before nouns to distinguish their persons

_Personification_, defined, --MURR definition of, blae of the gend of inaniender of anteced terreem of pronouns with their antecedents in cases of, --Rule for capitals in do, --coender in, --_Personified_ objects, naree with,

_Persons_, term defined, --_Persons_, named and defined, --the distinction of, on what founded, --_Persons, numbers_, &c, character of BROWN'S definitions of, --_Persons_, in grara, --_Person_ and _number_ of a verb, what, --_Persons_, second and third, of a verb, distinctive formations of, --do, in Lat, shown, --_Person_, nouns of the second, in Eng, in how many ways can be earism, (”THINKS I _to myself_,”) --the first, place of, --_Persons_, whether the imperat reereem of verb with,

_Perspicuity_, as a quality of style, in what consists, --is essential in composition; BLAIR quoted, --the excellence of, --Precepts airan, in part, of BROWN'S code of synt, is to es of, --_Perversions, literary_, Crit N concerning,

_Phonetics, phonography, phonotopy_, BROWN'S estimate of; DR JOH cited, --account of, --TRENCH'S views of, --_Phonographic systeraphy, its practical value; _phonotopy_, to what eously applied,

_Phrase_, defined, --_Phrase_ made the subject of a verb, how to be taken, --_Phrases_, distinct, conjunctively connected, agreem of verb with, --distinct, disjunctively connected, do, --unconnected, do, --BAD _phrases_, examples of, from authors, --do, corrected, --_Phrases_ or _clauses_, ellips of, shown, --_Adverbial phrase_, (so termed by some,) see _Adverb_

_Place_ or _position_ of the different parts of speech, see _Article, Noun, Adjective_, &c

_Pleonasm_, defined, --_Pleonasm_, when allowable with respect to a pron, --in what instances i, --occurs sundry times in the Bible,

_Pluperfect tense_, defined, --_Pluperf tense_, what iative form of supposition, --how formed in the indic mood; do in the potential, --indic form of, put by enall for pluperf of the pot, --PLUPERFECT, signif of the term; several innovators (as BULL, BUTL, _et al_) have been fain to discard it,

_Plural nu, is si in a vowel preceded by a vowel, --of do in _y_ preceded by a consonant, --of do in _o_ preceded by a consonant, --construc of, when several persons of the _same name_ are spoken of (”_The Stuarts_,”) --of prop names, its formation, --of nouns in _i, o, u_, or _y_, preceded by a consonant, --when _naether, (”_The Miss Bells_,”) --of nouns in _f_, --of nouns not formed in _s_ or _es_, --of compounds, --of certain co to some nouns, --of nouns of multitude, --_Plural_, nouns n nouns, 253, --i apostrophic _s_, --of mere characters, how denoted,

_Plurality_, the idea of; see _Unity_, &c

_Poetic feet_, treated, --(See _Iambus, Trochee_, &c) --_Poetic foot_, of what consists, --_Poet feet_, nu, named and defined, --kinds of, which form ORDERS OF VERSE, --what combinations of, severally form _dimeter, trimeter_, &c, --(See _Dimeter, Trimeter_, &c) --_Poetic_ collocation of words, in prose, as offending against perspicuity, PREC respecting, --_Poetic diction_, treated, --in what abounds, --_Poetical Peculiarities_,

_Poetry_, as defined by BLAIR, --character of its style, --aim and end of, --exterior distinction of, --why difficult, by a definition, to be distinguished fro the parsing of, --_Poetry_, every line in, should begin with a capital,

_Points_, or _stops_, the principal, nath of pauses denoted by, --often variously used in different editions of the sain of, See _Punctuation_

_Points_ of the co them,

_Possession_, relation of, see _Property_