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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- 

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

 tion nmji have been reckoned a perfect grammatical mood, and 

 might have been refolved, though no doubt but imperfectly, 

 into a fentence containing the primary verb, (thieo, video, &.c.) 

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

 wonder, or fome fimilar emotion. Miror me tarn pene vidiffe 

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

 quorfum evadas. I wonder, tremble, fhudder, to caft my eyes 

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

 are at this hour afleep. 



With refpect to the grammatical mood called the fubjuntlive, 

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

 guage) has different meanings, or exprefTes different energies, 

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

 (already confidered) fuppofition, power, condition, &c. It 

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

 one thought or energy, by means of which the fubjunctive 

 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 

 different verbs, according to the particular energy or mood of 

 thought expreffed in any inflance. Of this indeed there can 

 be no better proof than the number of different auxiliary words 

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

 junctive mood in all its tmfes, 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 fubjunctive mood, which 

 is fimple, and only marked by inflection. 



Crediderim, pojfum credere, I might believe ; credidijjem, potui 

 credere, I might have believed. Condition, ftipulation, fuppo- 



E e 2 iition, 



