“And if there be no difference, one of them must be superfluous, and ought to be rejected.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 149.  “I cannot say that I admire this construction, though it be much used.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 172.  “We are disappointed, if the verb do not immediately follow it.”—­Ib., p. 177.  “If it were they who acted so ungratefully, they are doubly in fault.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 223.  “If art become apparent, it disgusts the reader.”—­Jamieson’s Rhet., p. 80.  “Though perspicuity be more properly a rhetorical than a grammatical quality, I thought it better to include it in this book.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 238.  “Although the efficient cause be obscure, the final cause of those sensations lies open.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 29.  “Although the barrenness of language, and the want of words be doubtless one cause of the invention of tropes.”—­Ib., p. 135.  “Though it enforce not its instructions, yet it furnishes us with a greater variety.”—­Ib., p. 353.  “In other cases, though the idea be one, the words remain quite separate”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 140.  “Though the Form of our language be more simple, and has that peculiar Beauty.”—­Buchanan’s Syntax, p. v.  “Human works are of no significancy till they be completed.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., i, 245.  “Our disgust lessens gradually till it vanish altogether.”—­Ib., i, 338.  “And our relish improves by use, till it arrive at perfection.”—­Ib., i, 338.  “So long as he keep himself in his own proper element.”—­COKE:  ib., i, 233.  “Whether this translation were ever published or not I am wholly ignorant.”—­Sale’s Koran, i, 13.  “It is false to affirm, ’As it is day, it is light,’ unless it actually be day.”—­Harris’s Hermes, p. 246.  “But we may at midnight affirm, ‘If it be day, it is light.’”—­Ibid. “If the Bible be true, it is a volume of unspeakable interest.”—­Dickinson.  “Though he were a son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered.”—­Heb., v, 8.  “If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?”—­Matt., xxii, 45.

   “’Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill
    Appear in writing or in judging ill.”—­Pope, Ess. on Crit.

UNDER NOTE X.—­FALSE SUBJUNCTIVES.

“If a man have built a house, the house is his.”—­Wayland’s Moral Science, p. 286.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the verb have built, which extends the subjunctive mood into the perfect tense, has the appearance of disagreeing with its nominative man.  But, according to Note 10th to Rule 14th, “Every such use or extension of the subjunctive mood, as the reader will be likely to mistake for a discord between the verb and its nominative, ought to be avoided as an impropriety.”  Therefore, have built should be has built; thus, “If a man has built a house, the house is his.”]