- Collection:
- Columbia Theological Seminary Manuscript Collection
- Title:
- Philosophical Grammar, Drafts
- Creator:
- Ruffner, Henry, 1790-1861
- Date of Original:
- 1829/1861
- Subject:
- English language--19th century
English language--Grammar--Study and teaching
English language--Adjective
English language--Noun
English language--Pronoun
Grammar, Comparative and general
Language and languages
Ruffner, Henry, 1790-1861--Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
Virginia - Location:
- United States, Virginia, 37.54812, -77.44675
- Medium:
- drafts
manuscripts (documents)
notes - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- 8 undated manuscript documents by Henry Ruffner primarily consisting of drafts of chapters from an unpublished work entitled “Philosophical Grammar” as well as lecture notes on sentence composition [Lecture 1, fragment]; the nature and use of nouns and adjectives [Lectures 2-4]; noun gender and number, and pronouns [Lecture 5]; articles [Lecture 6]; and verbs and verb tenses [Lecture 7]. General contents are as follows: Title: Philosophical [Grammar] Chapter 1 [9 pages; PDF 1-9]; Title: Philosophical Grammar. Chapter 1 [26 pages; within PDF 10-37]; Title: Elements of Philosophical Grammar. Chapter 1. On the Nature and Origin of Language. [3 pages; PDF 38-40]; Title: Philosophical Grammar. Chapter 1. On the nature and origin of language: its elementary sounds and alphabetical signs. [24 pages; PDF 41-64]; Title: Philosophical Grammar. Chapter 1 [and] Chapter 2 [18 pages; PDF 65-82]; Title: Philosophical Grammar Chap. 1 Elocution. Elementary sounds of the English language [5 pages; PDF 83-87]; Title: Chapter V. Of Nouns in respect to gender and number. [11 pages; PDF 88-99]; Title: Lecture notes, 1-7 [33 pages; PDF 100-133]. The Henry Ruffner papers are found within the William Henry Ruffner papers, 1829-1914.
- Metadata URL:
- http://cdm17323.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p17323coll7/id/13212
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Extent:
- 178 pages
- Original Collection:
- Henry Ruffner papers
C. Benton Kline, Jr. Special Collections and Archives, John Bulow Campbell Library, Columbia Theological Seminary - Holding Institution:
- Columbia Theological Seminary
- Rights:
-
