[297] In the following example, there is a different phraseology, which seems not so well suited to the sense:  “But we must be aware of imagining, that we render style strong and expressive, by a constant and multiplied use of epithets”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 287.  Here, in stead of “be aware,” the author should have said, “beware,” or “be ware;” that is, be wary, or cautious; for aware means apprised, or informed, a sense very different from the other.

[298] Dr. Crombie contends that must and ought are used only in the present tense. (See his Treatise, p. 204.) In this he is wrong, especially with regard to the latter word.  Lennie, and his copyist Bullions, adopt the same notion; but Murray, and many others, suppose them to “have both a present and [a] past signification.”

[299] Dr. Crombie says, “This Verb, as an auxiliary, is inflexible; thus we say, ‘he will go;’ and ‘he wills to go.’”—­Treatise on Etym. and Syntax, p. 203.  He should have confined his remarks to the familiar style, in which all the auxiliaries, except do, be, and have, are inflexible.  For, in the solemn style, we do not say, “Thou will go,” but, “Thou wilt go.”

[300] “HAD-I-WIST. A proverbial expression, Oh that I had known. Gower.”—­Chalmers’s Dict., also Webster’s.  In this phrase, which is here needlessly compounded, and not very properly explained, we see wist used as a perfect participle.  But the word is obsolete. “Had I wist,” is therefore an obsolete phrase, meaning.  If I had known, or, “O that I had known.”

[301] That is, passive verbs, as well as others, have three participles for each; so that, from one active-transitive root, there come six participles—­three active, and three passive.  Those numerous grammarians who, like Lindley Murray, make passive verbs a distinct class, for the most part, very properly state the participles of a verb to be “three;” but, to represent the two voices as modifications of one species of verbs, and then say, “The Participles are three,” as many recent writers do, is manifestly absurd:  because two threes should be six.  Thus, for example, Dr. Bullions:  “In English [,] the transitive verb has always two voices, the Active and [the] Passive.”—­Prin. of E. Gram., p. 33.  “The Participles are three, [:] the Present, the Perfect, and the Compound Perfect.”—­Ib., p. 57.  Again:  “Transitive verbs have two voices, called the Active and the Passive.”—­Bullions’s Analyt. and Pract.  Gram., p. 66.  “Verbs have three participles—­the present, the past, and the perfect; as, loving, loved, having loved, in the active voice:  AND being loved, loved, having been loved, in