open.”—­Blair cor. “Although the barrenness of language, or the want of words, is doubtless one cause of the invention of tropes.”—­Id. “Though it enforces not its instructions, yet it furnishes a greater variety.”—­Id. “In other cases, though the idea is one, the words remain quite separate.”—­Priestley cor. “Though the form of our language is more simple, and has that peculiar beauty.”—­Buchanan cor. “Human works are of no significancy till they are completed.”—­Kames cor. “Our disgust lessens gradually till it vanishes altogether.”—­Id. “And our relish improves by use, till it arrives at perfection.”—­Id. “So long as he keeps himself in his own proper element.”—­Coke cor. “Whether this translation was ever published or not, I am wholly ignorant.”—­Sale cor. “It is false to affirm, ‘As it is day, it is light,’ unless it actually is day.”—­Harris cor. “But we may at midnight affirm, ’If it is day, it is light.’”—­Id. “If the Bible is true, it is a volume of unspeakable interest.”—­Dickinson cor. “Though he was a son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered.”—­Bible cor. “If David then calleth (or calls) him Lord, how is he his son?”—­Id.

   “’Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill
    Appears in writing, or in judging, ill.”—­Pope cor.

UNDER NOTE X.—­FALSE SUBJUNCTIVES.

“If a man has built a house, the house is his.”—­Wayland cor. “If God has required them of him, as is the fact, he has time.”—­Id. “Unless a previous understanding to the contrary has been had with the principal.”—­Berrian cor. “O! if thou hast hid them in some flowery cave.”—­Milton cor. “O! if Jove’s will has linked that amorous power to thy soft lay.”—­Id. “SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD:  If thou love, If thou loved.”—­Dr. Priestley, Dr. Murray, John Burn, David Blair, Harrison, and others.  “Till Religion, the pilot of the soul, hath lent thee her unfathomable coil.”—­Tupper cor. “Whether nature or art contributes most to form an orator, is a trifling inquiry.”—­Blair cor. “Year after year steals something from us, till the decaying fabric totters of itself, and at length crumbles into dust.”—­Murray cor. “If spiritual pride has not entirely vanquished humility.”—­West cor. “Whether he has gored a son, or has gored a daughter.”—­Bible cor. “It is doubtful whether the object introduced by way of simile, relates to what goes before or to what follows.”—­Kames cor.

   “And bridle in thy headlong wave,
    Till thou our summons answer’d hast.”  Or:—­
    “And bridle in thy headlong wave,
    Till thou hast granted what we crave.”—­Milt. cor.