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BRIEF STRICTURES on CERTAIN OBSERVATIONS 
of LORD MONBODDO refpecting the GREEK TENSES. 
By ARTHUR BROWNE, LL. D. Fellow of Trinity College, 
Dublin, Reprefentative in Parliament for that Univerfity, and 
M. RT, A. 
PREFATORY REMARKS. 
i, In philological difquifitions nothing is more difficult than Read Feb. . 
to exprefs our meaning fo precifely as to avoid all danger of 13? "79° 
being miftaken. It becomes neceflary, therefore, to premife and 
fpecify the fenfe which, in the following effay, is annexed to cer- 
tain terms often vaguely ufed. 
2. Aorists, or indefinites, are fometimes fo called becaufe 
they are ufed for many tenfes indifferently, pafts, prefents, and 
futures. Sometimes, becaufe they do not mark any precife point 
of time when an a¢tion happened, but only exprefs that it did 
happen.. Sometimes, becaufe the verb when ufed in thefe tenfes 
doth not. expre/r whether the ation fignified be perfected or im- 
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