no other form of expression can convey.

My labour has likewise been much increased by a class of verbs too
frequent in the English language, of which the signification is
so loose and general, the use so vague and indeterminate, and the
senses detorted so widely from the first idea, that it is hard
to trace them through the maze of variation, to catch them on the
brink of utter inanity, to circumscribe them by any limitations, or
interpret them by any words of distinct and settled meaning; such
are bear, break, come, cast, full, get, give, do, put, set, go,
run, make, take, turn, throw. If of these the whole power is not
accurately delivered, it must be remembered, that while our language
is yet living, and variable by the caprice of every one that speaks
it, these words are hourly shifting their relations, and can no more
be ascertained in a dictionary, than a grove, in the agitation of
a storm, can be accurately delineated from its picture in the water.

The particles are among all nations applied with so great latitude,
that they are not easily reducible under any regular scheme of
explication: this difficulty is not less, nor perhaps greater, in
English, than in other languages. I have laboured them with diligence,
I hope with success; such at least as can be expected in a task,
which no man, however learned or sagacious, has yet been able to
perform.

Some words there are which I cannot explain, because I do not
understand them; these might have been omitted very often with
little inconvenience, but I would not so far indulge my vanity as
to decline this confession: for when Tully owns himself ignorant
whether lessus, in the twelve tables, means a funeral song,