OBS. 4.—­Although our language, in its ordinary use, exhibits the verbs in such forms only, as will make, when put together, but a very simple conjugation; there is probably no other language on earth, in which it would be so difficult for a learned grammarian to fix, settle, and exhibit, to the satisfaction of himself and others, the principles, paradigms, rules, and exceptions, which are necessary for a full and just exhibition of this part of speech.  This difficulty is owing, partly to incompatibilities or unsettled boundaries between the solemn and the familiar style; partly to differences in the same style between ancient usage and modern; partly to interfering claims of new and old forms of the preterit and the perfect participle; partly to the conflicting notions of different grammarians respecting the subjunctive mood; and partly to the blind tenacity with which many writers adhere to rugged derivatives, and prefer unutterable contractions to smooth and easy abbreviations.  For example:  a clergyman says to a lucky gamester, (1.) “You dwell in a house which you neither planned nor built.”  A member of the Society of Friends would say, (2.) “Thou dwellst in a house which thou neither planned nor built.”  Or, if not a scholar, as likely as not, (3.) “Thee dwells in a house which thee neither planned nor built.”  The old or solemn style would b3, (4.) “Thou dwellest in a house which thou neither plannedst nor buildedst.”  Some untasteful and overgrammatical poet will have it, (5.) “Thou dwell’st in halls thou neither plann’dst nor build’dst.”  The doctrine of Murray’s Grammar, and of most others, would require, (6.) “Thou dwellest in a house which thou neither plannedst nor builtest.”  Or, (according to this author’s method of avoiding unpleasant sounds,) the more complex form, (7.) “Thou dost dwell in a house which thou neither didst plan nor didst build.”  Out of these an other poet will make the line, (8.) “Dost dwell in halls which thou nor plann’dst nor built’st.”  An other, more tastefully, would drop the st of the preterit, and contract the present, as in the second instance above:  thus,

(9.) “Thou dwellst in halls thou neither planned nor built,
And revelst there in riches won by guilt.”

OBS. 5.—­Now let all these nine different forms of saying the same thing, by the same verbs, in the same mood, and the same two tenses, be considered.  Let it also be noticed, that for these same verbs within these limits, there are yet other forms, of a complex kind; as, “You do dwell,” or, “You are dwelling;” used in lieu of, “Thou dost dwell,” or, “Thou art dwelling:”  so, “You did plan,” or, “You were planning;” used in lieu of, “Thou