“Madame,” dit il, “il y a là une [feminine] personne qui demand M. le Baron.”
“Quelle [feminine] est cette [feminine] personne?”
Thus, it will be seen, both feminine and masculine articles must be used to designate the same object; and a person must be spoken of as feminine, although the person is a man; the reason being that _personne_, the _word_, is feminine.—_Richard Grant White._
[I] “Madame,” said he, “there is a person without who asks for the Baron.”
2. For contrary to apparently reasonable assumption, the history of language shows that minute and highly wrought grammatical forms are the signs, or at least the accompaniments, not of advanced civilization and high culture, but of a rude and savage condition of society. The further we penetrate the obscure of antiquity, the more grammar we find. The oldest language known to us, the Sanskrit, is the most complex and elaborate in its grammar; the youngest, English, is, to all intents and purposes, grammarless; and Sanskrit grammar is at least four thousand years old. My readers will now see why it was that I said the minute forms and complicated grammatical relations of the Greek language are not the signs of a high development of language, but were relics of barbarism.—_Richard Grant White._
3. “Galore,” gā-loreˈ. Plenty, abundance.
1. “Fuller,” Thomas. (1608-1661.) An English author and divine. “The style of all his writings is extremely quaint and idiomatic, in short, simple sentences, and singularly free from the pedantry of his times.”—_American Cyclopædia._
2. “Robert Hall.” (1764-1831.) An English writer and preacher of the Baptist church. When he was eleven years of age his teacher said that he could not keep up with the boy. No man in modern times ranked higher as an orator.
3. “Goulburn.” (1818-⸺.) An English clergyman. He was in 1859 head master of the Rugby School, in 1866 was made Dean of Norwich. He was a voluminous and popular writer.
4. “Bascom,” Richard H. (1796-1850.) An American clergyman, bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. His works comprise sermons, addresses and lectures.
1. Transcriber’s Note: This note was omitted in the original. Wikipedia has to say: “In general in ancient Greece, each state, city or village possessed its own central hearth and sacred fire, representing the unity and vitality of the community. The fire was kept alight continuously, tended by the king or members of his family. The building in which this fire was kept was the Prytaneum, and the chieftain (the king or prytanis) probably made it his residence.”