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-Sermon. "Will cuts him short with a '_What then_?'"--Addison. "With hark and whoop, and wild halloo."--Scott. "And made a pish at chance and sufferance."--Shak.
"A single look more marks th' internal wo, Than all the windings of the lengthen'd oh."--Lloyd.
CLASSES.
Nouns are divided into two general classes; proper and common. I. A proper noun is the name of some particular individual, or people, or group; as, _Adam, Boston_, the Hudson, the Romans, the Azores, the Alps.
II. A common noun is the name of a sort, kind, or class, of beings or things; as, _Beast, bird, fish, insect,--creatures, persons, children_.
The particular classes, _collective, abstract_, and verbal, or participial, are usually included among common nouns. The name of a thing sui generis is also called common.
1. A collective noun, or noun of multitude, is the name of many individuals together; as, _Council, meeting, committee, flock_.
2. An abstract noun is the name of some particular quality considered apart from its substance; as, _Goodness, hardness, pride, frailty_.
3. A verbal or participial noun is the name of some action, or state of being; and is formed from a verb, like a participle, but employed as a noun: as, "The triumphing of the wicked is short."--Job, xx, 5.
4. A thing sui generis, (i. e., of its own peculiar kind,) is something which is distinguished, not as an individual of a species, but as a sort by itself, without plurality in either the noun or the sort of thing; as, _Galvanism, music, geometry_.
OBS. 1.--Through the influence of an article, a proper name sometimes acquires the import of a common noun: as, "He is the Cicero of his age;" that is, the great orator. "Many _