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ing of the primary verbs) the emotion of wonder, or fome 

 mixed emotion, of which wonder forms a part. No perfon 

 can doubt that this energy might have been expreffed by in- 

 flexion of the verb ; and that, if it had been fo, fuch inflec- 

 tion miiji have been reckoned a perfed grammatical mood, and 

 might have been refolved, though no doubt but imperfeXly, 

 into a fentence containing the primary verb, (timeo^ video, 8cc.) 

 and fome verb, or phrafe containing a verb, expreflive of 

 wonder, or fome finiilar emotion. Miror vie tarn pene vidl(fe 

 regna Projerpince, miror quantum timeo, minis ejl timor meus, 

 quorfum evadas. I wonder, tremble, fliudder, to cafl: my eyes 

 fo low. I admire, it is admirable, that many of my fubjeds 

 are at this hour afleep. 



With refpecfl to the grammatical mood called the fubjunclive, 

 it mufl: be obferved, that it (like many words in common lan- 

 guage) has different meanings, or expreffes different energies, 

 combined with the radical meaning of the verb, fuch as, wifli, 

 (already confidered) fuppofition, power, condition, tifc. It 

 niuft: be in vain, therefore, to look for any one verb, or any 

 one thought or energy, by means of which the fubjundive 

 mood may uniformly be refolved, as the indicative may be by 

 dico, the optative by opto, the interrogative by rogo, the impe- 

 rative by jubeo. It is to be refolved occafionally by means of 

 difli^erent verbs, according to the particular energy or mood of 

 thought exprefled in any infl:ance. Of this indeed there can 

 be no better proof than the number of difl'erent auxiliary words 

 which we employ in Englifli to make out what we call the fub- 

 jundive mood in all its tcnfes, fuch as, may, can, might, could, 

 would, Jhould, which are, by no means, fynonymous and con- 

 vertible terms, even in this application of them, and yet all 

 correfpond occafionally to the Latin fubjundive mood, which 

 is fimple, and only marked by infledion. 



Crediderim, pojjiim credere, 1 might believe ; credidiffem, potui 

 credere, I might have believed. Condition, fl;ipulation, fuppo- 



E e 2 fition, 



