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[18] Mr. Murray says, “These compounds,” have, shall, will,
     may, can, must, had, might, could, would, and
     should, which he uses as auxiliaries to help conjugate other
     verbs, “are, however, to be considered as different forms of the
     same verb.”  I should like to know, if these words have any thing
     to do with the principal verbs; if they only alter the form of
     the verb which follows them.  I may, can, must, shall,
     will, or do love.  Are these only different forms of love? or
     rather, are they not distinct, important, and original verbs, pure
     and perfect in and of themselves?  Ask for their etymons and
     meaning, and then decide.

[19] Diversions of Purley, vol. 1, p. 77.

[20] Dr. Edwards observes, in a communication to the Connecticut Society
     of Arts and Sciences, from personal knowledge, that “the Mohegans
     (Indians) have no adjectives in all their language.  Altho it may
     at first seem not only singular and curious, but impossible, that a
     language should exist without adjectives, yet it is an indubitable
     fact.”  But it is proved that in later times the Indians employ
     adjectives, derived from nouns or verbs, as well as other nations. 
     Altho many of their dialects are copious and harmonious, yet they
     suffered no inconvenience from a want of contracted words and
     phrases.  They added the ideas of definition and description to the
     things themselves, and expressed them in the same word, in a
     modified form.

[21] Matthew, chap. 24, v. 48.

[22] Examples of a dis-junctive conjunction.  “They came with her,
     but they went without her.”—­Murray.

     Murray is wrong, and Cardell is right.  The simplifiers are
     wrong, but their standard is so likewise.

     “Me he restored to my office, and him he hanged.”—­Pharaoh’s
     Letter.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

The following printer’s errors have been corrected in this etext.  Changes are indicated in brackets.