_ would assume their hard
sounds."--_Buchanan's Syntax_, p. 10. "He would no more comprehend it, than
if it was the speech of a Hottentot."--_Neef's Sketch_, p. 112. "If thou
knewest the gift of God," &c.--_John_, iv, 10. "I wish I was at home."--_O.
B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 260. "Fact alone does not constitute right; if it
does, general warrants were lawful."--_Junius_, Let. xliv, p. 205. "Thou
look'st upon thy boy as though thou guessest it."--_Putnam's Analytical
Reader_, p. 202. "Thou look'st upon thy boy as though thou guessedst
it."--_Cobb's N. A. Reader_, p. 320. "He fought as if he had contended for
life."--_Hiley's Gram._, p. 92. "He fought as if he had been contending for
his life."--_Ib._, 92.

"The dewdrop glistens on thy leaf,
As if thou seem'st to shed a tear;
As if thou knew'st my tale of grief,
Felt all my sufferings severe."--_Alex. Letham_.

_Last Clause of Note IX.--For the Indicative Mood._

"If he know the way, he does not need a guide."--_Brown's Institutes_, p.
191.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the verb _know_, which is used to express a
conditional circumstance assumed as a fact, is in the subjunctive mood.
But, according to the last clause of Note 9th to Rule 14th, "A conditional
circumstance assumed as a fact, requires the indicative mood." Therefore,
_know_ should be _knows_; thus, "If he _knows_ the way, he does not need a
guide."]

"And if there be no difference, one of them must be superfluous, and ought
to be rejected."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 149. "I cannot say that I admire
this construction, though it be much used."--_Priestley's Gram._, p. 172.
"We are disappointed, if the verb do not immediately follow it."--_Ib._, p.
177. "If it were they who acted so ungratefully, they are doubly in
fault."--_Murray's Key_, 8vo, p. 223. "If art become apparent, it disgusts
the reader."--_Jamieson's Rhet._, p. 80. "Though perspicuity be more
properly a rhetorical than a grammatical quality, I thought it better to
include it in this book."--_Campbell's Rhet._, p. 238. "Although the
efficient cause be obscure, the final cause of those sensations lies
open."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 29. "Although the barrenness of language, and
the want of words be doubtless one cause of the invention of
tropes."--_Ib._, p. 135. "Though it enforce not its instructions, yet it
furnishes us with a greater variety."--_Ib._, p. 353. "In other cases,
though the idea be one, the words remain quite separate