UNDER NOTE VII.—­CONFUSION OF MOODS.

“If a man have a hundred sheep, and one of them is gone astray, &c.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 227 with 197.  “As a speaker advances in his discourse, especially if it be somewhat impassioned, and increases in energy and earnestness, a higher and louder tone will naturally steal upon him.”—­Kirkham’s Elocution, p. 68.  “If one man esteem a day above another, and another esteemeth every day alike; let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 439.  “If there be but one body of legislators, it is no better than a tyranny; if there are only two, there will want a casting voice.”—­Addison, Spect., No. 287.  “Should you come up this way, and I am still here, you need not be assured how glad I shall be to see you.”—­Ld.  Byron.  “If he repent and becomes holy, let him enjoy God and heaven.”—­Brownson’s Elwood, p. 248.  “If thy fellow approach thee, naked and destitute, and thou shouldst say unto him, ’Depart in peace; be you warmed and filled;’ and yet shouldst give him not those things that are needful to him, what benevolence is there in thy conduct?”—­Kirkham’s Elocution, p. 108.

   “Get on your nightgown, lost occasion calls us. 
    And show us to be watchers.”
        —­Beauties of Shakspeare, p. 278.

    “But if it climb, with your assisting hands,
    The Trojan walls, and in the city stands.”
        —­Dryden’s Virgil, ii, 145.

--------------------------“Though Heaven’s king
Ride on thy wings, and thou with thy compeers,
Us’d to the yoke, draw’st his triumphant wheels.”
—­Milton, P. L., iv, l. 973.

    “Us’d to the yoke, draw’dst his triumphant wheels.”
        —­Lowth’s Gram., p. 106.

UNDER NOTE IX.—­IMPROPER ELLIPSES.

“Indeed we have seriously wondered that Murray should leave some things as he has.”—­Education Reporter.  “Which they neither have nor can do.”—­Barclay’s Works, iii, 73.  “The Lord hath, and doth, and will reveal his will to his people, and hath and doth raise up members of his body,” &c.—­Ib., i, 484.  “We see then, that the Lord hath, and doth give such.”—­Ib., i, 484.  “Towards those that have or do declare themselves members.”—­Ib., i, 494.  “For which we can, and have given our sufficient reasons.”—­Ib., i, 507.  “When we mention the several properties of the different words in sentences, in the same manner as we have those of William’s, above, what is the exercise called?”—­Smith’s New Gram., p. 12.  “It is, however to be doubted whether this peculiarity of the Greek idiom, ever has or will obtain extensively in the English.”—­Nutting’s Gram., p. 47.  “Why did not the Greeks and Romans abound in auxiliary words as much as we?”—­Murray’s Gram., Vol. i, p. 111.  “Who delivers his sentiments in earnest, as they ought to be in order to move and persuade.”—­Kirkham’s Elocution, p. 151.