UNDER NOTE IX.—APPLICATION OF MOODS.
First Clause of the Note.—The Subjunctive Present.
"He will not be pardoned unless he repent."—Inst., p. 191. "If thou find any kernelwort in this marshy meadow, bring it to me."—Neef cor. "If thou leave the room, do not forget to shut that drawer."—Id. "If thou grasp it stoutly, thou wilt not be hurt:" or, (familiarly,)—"thou will not be hurt."—Id. "On condition that he come, I will consent to stay."—Murray's Key, p. 208. "If he be but discreet, he will succeed."—Inst., p. 280. "Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob."—Gen., xxxi, 24. "If thou cast me off, I shall be miserable."—Inst., p. 280. "Send them to me, if thou please."—Ib. "Watch the door of thy lips, lest thou utter folly."—Ib. "Though a liar speak the truth, he will hardly be believed."—Bartlett cor. "I will go, unless I be ill."—L. Murray cor. "If the word or words understood be supplied, the true construction will be apparent."—Id. "Unless thou see the propriety of the measure, we shall not desire thy support."—Id. "Unless thou make a timely retreat, the danger will be unavoidable."—Id. "We may live happily, though our possessions be small."—Id. "If they be carefully studied, they will enable the student to parse all the exercises."—Id. "If the accent be fairly preserved on the proper syllable, this drawling sound will never be heard."—Id. "One phrase may, in point of sense, be equivalent to an other, though its grammatical nature be essentially different."—Id. "If any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man."—2 Thess., iii, 14. "Thy skill will be the greater, if thou hit it."—Putnam, Cobb, or Knowles, cor. "We shall overtake him, though he run."—Priestley et al. cor. "We shall be disgusted, if he give us too much."—Blair cor.
"What is't to thee, if he neglect thy urn,
Or without spices let thy body burn?"—Dryden cor.
Second Clause of Note IX.—The Subjunctive Imperfect.[540]
"And so would I, if I were he."—Inst., p. 191. "If I were a Greek, I should resist Turkish despotism."—Cardell cor. "If he were to go, he would attend to your business."—Id. "If thou felt as I do, we should soon decide."—Inst., p. 280. "Though thou shed thy blood in the cause, it would but prove thee sincerely a fool."—Ib. "If thou loved him, there would be more evidence of it."—Ib. "If thou convinced him, he would not act accordingly."—Murray cor. "If there were no liberty, there would be no real crime."—Formey cor. "If the house were burnt down, the case would be the same."—Foster cor. "As if the mind were not always in action, when it prefers any thing."—West cor. "Suppose I were to say, 'Light is a body.'"—Harris cor. "If either oxygen or azote were omitted, life would be destroyed."—Gurney cor. "The verb dare is sometimes used as if it were an auxiliary."—Priestley cor. "A certain lady, whom I could name, if it were necessary."—Spect. cor. "If the e were dropped, c and g would assume their hard sounds."—Buchanan cor. "He would no more comprehend it, than if it were the speech of a Hottentot."—Neef cor. "If thou knew the gift of God," &c.—Bible cor. "I wish I were at home."—O. B. Peirce cor. "Fact alone does not constitute right: if it did, general warrants were lawful."—Junius cor. "Thou lookst upon thy boy, as though thou guessed it."—Putnam, Cobb, or Knowles, cor. "He fought as if he contended for life."—Hiley cor. "He fought as if he were contending for his life."—Id.
"The dewdrop glistens on thy leaf,
As if thou shed for me a tear;
As if thou knew my tale of grief,
Felt all my sufferings severe."—Letham cor.
Last Clause of Note IX.—The Indicative Mood.
"If he knows the way, he does not need a guide."—Inst., p. 191. "And if there is no difference, one of them must be superfluous, and ought to be rejected."—Murray cor. "I cannot say that I admire this construction though it is much used."—Priestley cor. "We are disappointed, if the verb does not immediately follow it."—Id. "If it was they, that acted so ungratefully, they are doubly in fault."—Murray cor. "If art becomes apparent, it disgusts the reader."—Jamieson cor. "Though perspicuity is more properly a rhetorical than a grammatical quality, I thought it better to include it in this book."—Campbell cor. "Although the efficient cause is obscure, the final cause of those sensations lies open."—Blair cor. "Although the barrenness of language, or the want of words, is doubtless one cause of the invention of tropes."—Id. "Though it enforces not its instructions, yet it furnishes a greater variety."—Id. "In other cases, though the idea is one, the words remain quite separate."—Priestley cor. "Though the form of our language is more simple, and has that peculiar beauty."—Buchanan cor. "Human works are of no significancy till they are completed."—Kames cor. "Our disgust lessens gradually till it vanishes altogether."—Id. "And our relish improves by use, till it arrives at perfection."—Id. "So long as he keeps himself in his own proper element."—Coke cor. "Whether this translation was ever published or not, I am wholly ignorant."—Sale cor. "It is false to affirm, 'As it is day, it is light,' unless it actually is day."—Harris cor. "But we may at midnight affirm, 'If it is day, it is light.'"—Id. "If the Bible is true, it is a volume of unspeakable interest."—Dickinson cor. "Though he was a son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered."—Bible cor. "If David then calleth (or calls) him Lord, how is he his son?"—Id.
"'Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appears in writing, or in judging, ill."—Pope cor.