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

 mankind are capable of underflanding them perfectly, whether 

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

 inflections 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 rapnit rapietque gentes. Hor. 



§hw nos cunque feret melior fortuna parente^ 

 I b 1 m u s focii c omit ef que. H o R . 



Cras ingens iterabimus cequor. Hor. 



Ilk Deiim vitam accipiet, Divifque videbit 

 Permiflos Heroas, et ipfe, videbitur Mis : 

 Pacatumque re get patriis virtutibus orbem. Virg. 



Verberibus cafum te in piJlrinumDave dedam ufque ad necem„ 



Ter. 



§>uarum, qua forma pulcherrima, Deiopeiam 



Connubio jungam Jlabili, propriamque dicabo. Virg* 



In the two firft of thefe inftances from Horace, we have, I 

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



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

 tention or purpofe, plainly exprefTed. 



The prophecies in the four inftances, from Virgil's Pollio, 

 are, T apprehend, fomething more than what is exprefTed or un- 

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



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