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 * PRESENT. || rowspan=3 | || IMPERFECT. || rowspan=3 |  || PERF. PARTICIP.
 * I reckon. || I reckoned. || Reckoned.
 * I realise. || I realised. || Realised.
 * }
 * I realise. || I realised. || Realised.
 * }
 * }

Here should follow the conjugation of the regular active verb, To Love; but we have already assigned a good reason for omitting it; besides which we have to say, that we think it a verb highly unfit for conjugation by youth, as it tends to put ideas into their heads which they would otherwise never have thought of; and it is moreover our opinion, that several of our most gifted poets may, with reason, have attributed the seunfortunate attachments which, though formed in early youth, served to embitter their whole lives, to the poison which they thus sucked in with the milk, so to speak, of their Mother Tongue, the Grammar. We shall therefore dismiss Cupid, and he must look for