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    spondent been conversant in these matters , which as a critic in mood and tense he ought to have been , his censure would have been tempered with more modesty and reserve . It was further observed , that Sanetius and Mr . Johnson do sot consider

    irregular and defective verbs , which , with their other peculiarities , appear to have these , viz . to be more ambiguous , and indeterminate in their tenses , according to the divisions of later grammarians , than even the regular verbs , and to supply , by the tenses which they have , the want of those which they have not . Thus ,

    , noveram , me mini , memmeram , for present time , constantly . So again , uoverim , meminerim , ausim , are not only occasionally in present time , in common with regular verbs , but more frequently as irregulars : and ausim , meminerirn , no-rim , ( prseterf . pot . )

    seem to supply the place of present and prafcterimp . potential . Such appears to me the peculiarity of these verbs ; if that can properly be calted peculiar , which does , in certain cases ,

    take place in regulars . Agreeably to this analogy , I submit , whether , in the following line , the word aryuerim * a regular verb , taken in its connexion , may not be so turned , and better so than it usually is ?

    Nee vos argueritn , Teucri , nee fcedera , nee quas , Juiixiinus liospitio dextras ; sors ilia se neetae Debita nostra fuit . Virgil . I should not , or ought not , to accuse you ; for the charge falls elsewhere ;

    and whether many other verbs of that form may not be so turned ? And if they may 9 they will come under one general rule of analogy . Indeed , I must own that it seems to me that there will be found among the examples of Sanctius , ( not to say of Mr .

    Johnson ' s own , ) those that may be fairly and properly and better so interpreted . This , too , in the case of regulars . In irregulars there appears a still greater latitude . Many of those places , in pure classic writers , where

    the several persons of the vei : b , now under examination , are considered by some as imperatives , and construed as such / are not so , and should not be so construed , but as potentials or subjunctives . I admit that the following

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    passage in Quintihan has niucp the appearance of an imperative mood , rather more so , perhaps , than some of those examples in writers deeened of better authority : " Grammaiice fines sups norti" &c . Xustitttt . Orat *

    T i ; i " ^ i •¦ t » JL . li . C , i ~ , aud two places in Per * sius . But , not to insist that they . wrote when the purity of the Latin language was much on the decline , those places appear to me resolvable on the priaciples already stated . Thus

    Quintilian , grammar should know its own limits : or eiliptically oportet vt 9 grammatice , &c , ; so that , without being in the imperative mood , jaorit may have the import and force of one * I am not aware that Terence or Ho *

    race ever use nont , or norint , as an imperative , though they oftea use the word . But I have insensibly struck out of the right-on way , and unwarily wandered too far .

    He that ouce hath missen the right way , The further he doth go , the further he doth stray . ' Spenser . The remainder in a future Letter D . .

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    Late Religious Proceedings at CharleHQii . in South Carolina . # 4 <§

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    ^—Late Religious Proceedings at Charleston in South Carolina . [ Extract from a Letter written hy a Gentleman in America , formerly of Sheffield , in England . ]

    March 14 , IS 18 . " ^ f / H 7 " ^ kk you excuse me if I give v w you a few particulars which have brought about a new advocate for the Unity of God . Whew Mr . F — paid his addresses to oitr daughter , three or four years ago , he was preparing himself for the Presbyterian ministry , and having learnt that 1 held what he then deemed heretical

    opinions on the subject of religion , he had scruples about naarrying my daughter , lest she might Jh&ve imbibed some of my dangerous opinions . A letter passed between us upoa the s . utyect , in which I told Mr . F . that I had adopted my Unitarian sentiments on firm conviction of their trfctb ,

    thirty years ago , that I had taken no pains to impress my opinions on this subject upon nay children , but had left them to . form their own apinion , not withholding from them my owo impressions . Mr . , F .. * s jfi r&t settleHie » t was in the vicmitv of Charleston ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1819, page 241, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1771/page/29/