2i6 T H LORY" of the 



caGon for ; and, of courfe, mud often employ one mood as 

 they do one word, or one infledion, in various fenfes, that is, 

 to exprefs occafionally different thoughts. 



V. That grammatical moods contribute greatly to the 

 beauty and perfe<5\ion of language, by the brevity, animation, 

 and force, which they give to the cxpreffion of our moft fami- 

 liar and interefting combinations of thoughts, which may in- 

 deed be expreffed, in fome meafure, by circumlocution, and 

 the ufe of additional verbs, but not with the fame advantages. 



VI. That grammatical moods of verbs, like other inflec- 

 tions of words, exprefs much better than any fucceflion of 

 words can do, the intimate conne6lion and relation of various 

 thoughts, which are not fucceffive, but fimultaneous or coex- 

 iflent, and which appear unnaturally disjointed, and in fome 

 meafure altered, when they are expreffed by a feries of words 

 denoting each of them feparately and in fucceflion. 



Some of thefe conclufions, efpecially the third, the fifth and 

 the fixth, are fo intimately conne(fted, that it is difficult to con- 

 fider them feparately ; and as it is of no confequence to keep 

 them quite diftindt in the following illuflrations, I fliall confi- 

 der them pretty much together, as I conceive they tend to ex- 

 plain and illufl:rate one another. 



I. The firfl: of thofe conclufions can hardly be thought a no- 

 velty, if it be confidered that feveral philologiflis have main- 

 tained, that fome of the moods are 7-efolvable into fuch circui- 

 tous expreflions, by means of other additional verbs. In truth, 

 they are all, in fome meafure, convertible, though, in fl;ri6t pro- 

 priety of language, not refolvabk, nor even perfeBly convertible, 

 in that way. , 



The indicative, which denotes aflSrmation, is nearly the fame 

 in mea'ning, and of courfe is nearly convertible, with a verb 



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