200 THEORr of the 



TLxijlentia (whether good Latin or not) is the predicament or 

 accident of being. 



Vita is the {late or accident of living. Cafus, obitus, the 

 events or accidents of falling and of dying. 



Cogitatio, leclio, fcriptio, curfus, adifcatio, trucidatio, are the 

 accidents or actions of thinking, reading, writing, running, 

 building and murdering. 



In Englifh, almoft any noun fubftantive may occasionally be 

 converted into a verb, by ufing it to denote thofe thoughts, or 

 combinations of thoughts, fuch as exiftence, flate, event, acti- 

 vity, intranfitive, or tranfitive, or reflected, and paflivenefs or 

 being the object or fubject of activity, which are conceived to 

 conftitute the efTence of a verb. 



Water is plainly a noun. 



Watered a participle. 



To water a verb, without mood. 



He watereth, water thou, may it be watered^ it was watered, 

 a verb with mood. 



A watering, a verbal noun, retaining the accident, but not 

 the import of mood; and nearly allied to the infinitive to water, 

 in every refpect but that it does not involve the notion of time, 

 as the infinitives to water, to have watered, l$c. plainly do. 



These are but hints. Valeant quantum valere poffint. 



I suspect that the author whofe doctrine I am confidering, 

 has been rafli in limiting the number of moods to three ; the 

 indicative, exprefling affirmation, (and of courfe negation) un- 

 der which he comprehends the fubjimclive, as being nearly of 

 the fame import, and denoting affirmation, only qualified or 

 conditional ; the optative, exprefling wifliing or praying ; and 

 the imperative, exprefling command. 



I should think the fame kind of reafons that he urges 

 againft admitting an interrogative mood, namely, that " it is 

 *' not exprefTed by any different form of the verb, but only 

 i' by particles, or by a certain arrangement of the words," 



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