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the niceties in queftion. Yet it cannot be doubted, that all 

 mankind are capable of underftanding them perfedlly, whether 

 they ufe a language in which they can be exprefTed by mere 

 inflexions or not. 



By means of the fame tenfe and the fame mood, to wit, the 

 future of the indicative, we are accuftomed to exprefs either 

 mere futurity, and of courfe a prophecy, or an intention or 

 purpofe, or a threat, or a promife. 



Improvifa Lethi 



Vis rapuit rapietque gentes. HoR. 



^0 nos cimqtie feret melior fortuna parent e^ 

 Ibimus focii comitefqiie. HoR. 



C7as ingens iterabimus cequor. HoR. 



Ilk Dewn vitam accipiet, Divifque videbit 

 Permiftos Heroas, et ipfi videbitur illis : 

 Pacatumque reget patriis virtutibus orbem. Virg. 



Verberibus cafum te in piJirinumDave ded am ufque ad necem* 



Ter. 



^tarum, qua forma pulcherrima, Deiopeiam 



Connubio juNGAM Jlabtli, propriamque DiCABO. Virg* 



In the two flrft of thefe inflances from Horace, we have, I 

 think, the bare expreflion of what is to come to pafs. 



In the third and fourth, we have not only futurity, but in- 

 tention or purpofe, plainly expreffed. 



The prophecies in the four inflances, from Virgil's P0///0, 

 are, I apprehend, fomething more than what is expreffed or un- 

 derftood in the two firft of the preceding examples, and dif- 



VoL. II. D d ferent 



