has this accident made me!’ crys such a one.”—Ib.,
p. 60. “The muse that soft and sickly wooes
the ear.”—Pollok, i, 13.
“A man were better relate himself to a statue.”—Bacon.
“I heard thee say but now, thou lik’dst
not that.”—Shak. “In
my whole course of wooing, thou cried’st, Indeed!”—Id.
“But our ears are grown familiar with I have
wrote, I have drank, &c., which are altogether
as ungrammatical.”— Lowth’s
Gram., p. 63; Churchill’s, 114.
“The court was sat before Sir Roger came.”—Addison,
Spect., No. 122. “She need be no more
with the jaundice possest.”—Swift’s
Poems, p. 346. “Besides, you found fault
with our victuals one day that you was here.”—Ib.,
p. 333. “If spirit of other sort, So minded,
have o’erleap’d these earthy bounds.”—Milton,
P. L., B. iv, l. 582. “It should have
been more rational to have forborn this.”—Barclay’s
Works, Vol. iii, p. 265. “A student
is not master of it till he have seen all these.”—Dr.
Murray’s Life, p. 55. “The said
justice shall summons the party.”—Brevard’s
Digest. “Now what is become of thy former
wit and humour?”—Spect., No.
532. “Young stranger, whither wand’rest
thou?”—Burns, p. 29. “SUBJ.:
Pres. If I love, If thou lovest, If he love.
Imp. If I loved, If thou lovedst, If he loved.”—Merchant’s
Gram., p. 51. “SUBJ.: If I do not
love, If thou dost not love, If he does not love;”
&c.—Ib., p. 56. “If he
have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.”—James,
v, 15. “Subjunctive Mood of the verb to
call, second person singular: If Thou callest.
If Thou calledst. If Thou hast called. If
Thou hadst called. If Thou call. If Thou
shalt or wilt have called.”—Hiley’s
Gram., p. 41. “Subjunctive Mood of
the verb to love, second person singular:
If thou love. If thou do love. If thou lovedst.
If thou didst love. If thou hast loved. If
thou hadst loved. If thou shalt or wilt love.
If thou shalt or wilt have loved.”—Bullions’s
E. Gram., p. 46. “I was; thou wast,
or you was; he, she, or it was: We, you or ye,
they, were.”—White, on the English
Verb, p. 51. “I taught, thou taughtedst,
he taught.”—Coar’s English
Gram., p. 66. “We say, if it rains,
suppose it rains, lest it should rain, unless
it rains. This manner of speaking is called
the SUBJUNCTIVE mode.”—Weld’s
Gram., 2d Ed., p. 72; Abridged Ed., 59. “He
is arrived at what is deemed the age of manhood.”—Priestley’s
Gram., 163. “He had much better have
let it alone.”—Tooke’s Diversions,
i, 43. “He were better be without it.”—Locke,
on Education, p. 105. “Hadest not thou
been by.”—Beauties of Shak.,
p. 107. “I learned geography. Thou
learnedest arithmetick. He learned grammar.”—Fuller’s
Gram., p. 34. “Till the sound is ceased.”—Sheridan’s
Elocution, p. 126. “Present, die; Preterit,
died; Perf. Participle, dead.”—British
Gram., p. 158; Buchanan’s, 58; Priestley’s,
48; Ash’s, 45; Fisher’s,
71; Bicknell’s, 73.