’tis so much a Fashion, and Emulation, amongst their Children, to learn to Read, and Write, that they cannot hinder them from it.”—­Locke, on Education, p. 271.  “The Malteses do so, who harden the Bodies of their Children, and reconcile them to the Heat, by making them go stark Naked.”—­Idem, Edition of 1669, p. 5.  “CHINESE, n. s.  Used elliptically for the language and people of China:  plural, Chineses.  Sir T. Herbert.”—­Abridgement of Todd’s Johnson.  This is certainly absurd.  For if Chinese is used elliptically for the people of China, it is an adjective, and does not form the plural, Chineses:  which is precisely what I urge concerning the whole class.  These plural forms ought not to be imitated.  Horne Tooke quotes some friend of his, as saying, “No, I will never descend with him beneath even a Japanese:  and I remember what Voltaire remarks of that country.”—­Diversions of Purley, i, 187.  In this case, he ought, unquestionably, to have said—­“beneath even a native of Japan;” because, whether Japanese be a noun or not, it is absurd to call a Japanese, “that country.”  Butler, in his Hudibras, somewhere uses the word Chineses; and it was, perhaps, in his day, common; but still, I say, it is contrary to analogy, and therefore wrong.  Milton, too, has it: 

   “But in his way lights on the barren plains
    Of Sericana, where Chineses[171] drive
    With sails and wind their cany waggons light.”
        —­Paradise Lost, B. iii, l. 437.

OBS. 4.—­The Numeral Adjectives are of three kinds, namely, cardinal, ordinal, and multiplicative:  each kind running on in a series indefinitely.  Thus:—­

1. Cardinal; One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, &c.

2. Ordinal; First, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-first, twenty-second, &c.

3. Multiplicative; Single or alone, double or twofold, triple or threefold, quadruple or fourfold, quintuple or fivefold, sextuple or sixfold, septuple or sevenfold, octuple or eightfold, &c.  But high terms of this series are seldom used.  All that occur above decuple or tenfold, are written with a hyphen, and are usually of round numbers only; as, thirty-fold, sixty-fold, hundred-fold.