be, because thou hast judged thus.”—­Rev., xvi, 5.  In the former of these examples, a repetition of the nominative would not be agreeable; in the latter, it would perhaps be an improvement:  as, “who art, and who wast, and who shalt be.” (I here change the pronoun, because the relative which is not now applied as above.) “This dedication may serve for almost any book, that has been, or shall be published.”—­Campbell’s Rhet. p. 207; Murray’s Gram., p. 222.  “It ought to be, ‘has been, is, or shall be, published.’”—­Crombie’s Treatise, p. 383.  “Truth and good sense are firm, and will establish themselves.”—­Blair’s Rhet. p. 286.  “Whereas Milton followed a different plan, and has given a tragic conclusion to a poem otherwise epic in its form.”—­Ib., p. 428.  “I am certain, that such are not, nor ever were, the tenets of the church of England.”—­West’s Letters, p. 148.  “They deserve, and will meet with, no regard.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 109.

   “Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see,
    Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be.”
        —­Pope, on Crit.

OBS. 15.—­So verbs differing in mood or form may sometimes agree with the same nominative, if the simplest verb be placed first—­rarely, I think, if the words stand in any other order:  as, “One may be free from affectation and not have merit”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 189.  “There is, and can be, no other person.”—­Murray’s Key. 8vo. p. 224.  “To see what is, and is allowed to be, the plain natural rule.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 284.  “This great experiment has worked, and is working, well, every way well”—­BRADBURN:  Liberator, ix. 162.  “This edition of Mr. Murray’s works on English Grammar, deserves a place in Libraries, and will not fail to obtain it.”—­BRITISH CRITIC:  Murray’s Gram., 8vo, ii, 299.

   “What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy.”—­Pope.

    “Some are, and must be, greater than the rest.”—­Id.

OBS. 16.—­Since most of the tenses of an English verb are composed of two or more words, to prevent a needless or disagreeable repetition of auxiliaries, participles, and principal verbs, those parts which are common to two or more verbs in the same sentence, are generally expressed to the first, and understood to the rest; or reserved, and put last, as the common supplement of each; as, “To which they do or can extend.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 77.  “He may, as any one may, if he will, incur an infamous execution from the hands of civil justice.”—­Ib., p. 82.  “All that has usurped the name of virtue, and [has] deceived us by its semblance,