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Example 1. 2. 7. 2. 5. 1. 2. The power of Speech is a faculty 4. 7 2 8 5. 5. 7. 3 peculiar to Man and was bestowed on Him 7. 3. 4 2. 7. 1. by his beneficent Creator for the 4. 8 6 4. 2. 8 greatest and most excellent uses; but 9. 6. 6. 5. 3. 5. 3 alas! how often do we pervert it 7. 1 4. 7. 2. to [[underline]] the worst of purposes? [[/underline]] [[deletion]] The Article is a word prefixed to Substantives, to show how far their signification extends.[[/deletion]] In English there are but two Articles, [[underline]] a [[/underline]] and [[underline]] the [[/underline]], [[underline]] a [[/underline]] becomes [[underline]] an [[/underline]] before a Vowel or a silent h. [[underline]] A [[/underline]] is used in a vague sense to point out one single thing of the kind, in other respects indeterminate, [[underline]] the [[/underline]] determines what particular thing is meaned therefore the former is called the Indefinite,the latter the Definitive Article. + A Substantive without any Article to limit it, is taken in its widest sense, thus Man means all mankind. The definitive Article [[underline]] the [[/underline]] is sometimes applied to Adverbs in the Comparative and Superlative degree, to mark them the more strongly & to define them the more precisely as the more I examine it the better I like it. and I like this the least of any. [[addition]] + It is proper also to observe that [[/addition]] + [[deletion]] besides [[/deletion]] [[underline]] a [[/underline]] determines the thing spoken of to be of the singular number, and [[underline]] the [[/underline]] of the Plural. There is one remarkable exception to this rule in the use of the Adjectives [[underline]] few [[/underline]] & many, which though joined with Plural Substantives admit of the Singular Article, a few Men, a great many Men; the reason of this is evident from the effect the article has in these phrases it means a small or great number collectively taken, consequently gives the idea of Unity