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Excerpt from Essay on the History and Modern Use of the Verbal Forms in -Ing, Vol. 1
There is no derivative ending in the English language which is turned to such a number and variety of uses as the verbal ending -ing. The words formed by it belong to several different parts of speech and by their frequency and importance in¿uence essentially the character of the language. A division of them into the classes of participles, nouns, adjectives, and prepositions, does not comprise all the cases of their extensive range. For besides these unmixed uses, there is one more, of a hybrid kind, which participates of the properties both of a noun and a verb, and by its pliant and easy nature has been widely spread in the language.
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