. The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics. , be subject to the generallaws of matter, yet it has some otherqualities, in a very high degree,which other matter, generall y speak-ing, does not possess. Thcstr qualitiesare subtlety, elajiticity, and adhesiveattraction ; while, of others, com-mon to different orders of mattergenerally, it scarcely possesses anyascertainable portion; as of gravirtation and solidity, it must be verydifficult, independent of experiment,to be impressed with a very ade?quatc notion concerning them. I have ttjus far had in view
. The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics. , be subject to the generallaws of matter, yet it has some otherqualities, in a very high degree,which other matter, generall y speak-ing, does not possess. Thcstr qualitiesare subtlety, elajiticity, and adhesiveattraction ; while, of others, com-mon to different orders of mattergenerally, it scarcely possesses anyascertainable portion; as of gravirtation and solidity, it must be verydifficult, independent of experiment,to be impressed with a very ade?quatc notion concerning them. I have ttjus far had in view thenotions of that very respectable, butmuch neglected experimenter, : hq had very peculiar, andprobably very correct, opinions onthis subject, which might have madehim the father of all the modemgalvanic enquiries, had he been pro-p(;rly encouraged. It is to be re-gretted, that he died in the midst ofhis most ])rofound researches, whichwe have therefore more particularlytouclied upon in the present shall resume the thread of ouifgalvanic enquiries in our 357 ON THE DERIVATION OF ITALIAN WORDS FROM LATIN ABLATIVES. TO THE Sin, J NT applyincj myself of late• o the study of the Italian languni^e,iind enquiring, with some pains,into its analogies with the Latin, Imade an observation, which I donot remember to have seen anywhere; and, for the singularity ofwhich, I should be glad if any ofyour readers, more conversant with(he subject than myself, would havetlie goodness to account. It appears (hat such of the Italianwords as are derived from the Latin,are almost invariably formed fromthe ablative case in the latter lan-guage; so that, if the Latin wordis of the third declension, the Italiantermination is e; if of the second,o ; and if of the first, a of illustrate this with a few exam-ples : LATIN. ITALIAN. EDITOR. fpisciso finis^ I foMSi; ^ judexpaterlux^sors Ahlat>piscefinefontejudicepatrelucesort^ pesce fine fonte giudicc padre lu
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