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 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.