[305] William B. Fowle, a modern disciple of Tooke, treats the subject of grammatical time rather more strangely than his master.  Thus:  “How many times or tenses have verbs? Two, [the] present and [the] past,” To this he immediately adds in a note:  “We do not believe in a past any more than a future tense of verbs.”—­The True English Gram., p. 30.  So, between these two authors, our verbs will retain no tenses at all.  Indeed, by his two tenses, Fowle only meant to recognize the two simple forms of an English verb.  For he says, in an other place, “We repeat our conviction that no verb in itself expresses time of any sort.”—­Ib., p. 69,

[306] “STONE’-BLIND,” “STONE’-COLD,” and “STONE’-DEAD,” are given in Worcester’s Dictionary, as compound adjectives; and this is perhaps their best classification; but, if I mistake not, they are usually accented quite as strongly on the latter syllable, as on the former, being spoken rather as two emphatic words.  A similar example from Sigourney, “I saw an infant marble cold,” is given by Frazee under this Note:  “Adjectives sometimes belong to other adjectives; as, ‘red hot iron.’”—­Improved Gram., p. 141.  But Webster himself, from whom this doctrine and the example are borrowed, (see his Rule XIX,) makes “RED’-HOT” but one word in his Dictionary; and Worcester gives it as one word, in a less proper form, even without a hyphen, “RED’HOT.”

[307] “OF ENALLAGE.—­The construction which may be reduced to this figure in English, chiefly appears when one part of speech, is used with the power and effect of another.”—­Ward’s English Gram., p. 150.

[308] Forsooth is literally a word of affirmation or assent, meaning for truth, but it is now almost always used ironically:  as, “In these gentlemen whom the world forsooth calls wise and solid, there is generally either a moroseness that persecutes, or a dullness that tires you.”—­Home’s Art of Thinking, p. 24.

[309] In most instances, however, the words hereof, thereof, and whereof, are placed after nouns, and have nothing to do with any verb.  They are therefore not properly adverbs, though all our grammarians and lexicographers call them so.  Nor are they adjectives; because they are not used adjectively, but rather in the sense of a pronoun governed by of; or, what is nearly the same thing, in the sense of the possessive or genitive case.  Example:  “And the fame hereof went abroad.”—­Matt., ix, 26.  That is, “the fame of this miracle;” which last is a better expression, the other being obsolete, or worthy to be so, on account of its irregularity.