That no other sorts of words are necessary in language, will appear, when we have seen in what respects these are necessary."-- _Beattie's Moral Science_, Vol.

i, p.30.

This distribution is precisely that which the best _French_ grammarians have _usually_ adopted.
8.

Dr.Johnson professes to adopt the division, the order, and the terms, "of the common grammarians, without inquiring whether a fitter distribution might not be found."-- _Gram.

before 4to Dict._, p.1.But, in the Etymology of his Grammar, he makes no enumeration of the parts of speech, and treats only of articles, nouns, adjectives, pronouns, and verbs; to which if we add the others, according to the common grammarians, or according to his own Dictionary, the number will be _ten_.