"--_Priestley's
Gram._, p. 140. "Though the Form of our language be more simple, and has
that peculiar Beauty."--_Buchanan's Syntax_, p. v. "Human works are of no
significancy till they be completed."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, i, 245. "Our
disgust lessens gradually till it vanish altogether."--_Ib._, i, 338. "And
our relish improves by use, till it arrive at perfection."--_Ib._, i, 338.
"So long as he keep himself in his own proper element."--COKE: _ib._, i,
233. "Whether this translation were ever published or not I am wholly
ignorant."--_Sale's Koran_, i, 13. "It is false to affirm, 'As it is day,
it is light,' unless it actually be day."--_Harris's Hermes_, p. 246. "But
we may at midnight affirm, 'If it be day, it is light.'"--_Ibid._ "If the
Bible be true, it is a volume of unspeakable interest."--_Dickinson_.
"Though he were a son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he
suffered."--_Heb._, v, 8. "If David then call him Lord, how is he his
son?"--_Matt._, xxii, 45.

"'Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill
Appear in writing or in judging ill."--_Pope, Ess. on Crit._

UNDER NOTE X.--FALSE SUBJUNCTIVES.

"If a man have built a house, the house is his."--_Wayland's Moral
Science_, p. 286.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the verb _have built_, which extends the
subjunctive mood into the perfect tense, has the appearance of disagreeing
with its nominative _man_. But, according to Note 10th to Rule 14th, "Every
such use or extension of the subjunctive mood, as the reader will be likely
to mistake for a discord between the verb and its nominative, ought to be
avoided as an impropriety." Therefore, _have built_ should be _has built_;
thus, "If a man _has built_ a house, the house is his."]

"If God have required them of him, as is the fact, he has time."--_Ib._, p.
351. "Unless a previous understanding to the contrary have been had with
the Principal."--_Berrian's Circular_, p. 5. "O if thou have Hid them in
some flowery cave."--_Milton's Comus_, l. 239. "O if Jove's will Have
linked that amorous power to thy soft lay."--_Milton, Sonnet_ 1.
"SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD: If thou love, If thou loved, If thou have loved, If thou
had loved, If thou shall or will love, If thou shall or will have
loved."--_L. Murray's Gram._, 2d Ed., p. 71; _Cooper's Murray_, 58; _D.
Adams's Gram._, 48; and others. "Till religion, the pilot of the soul, have
lent thee her unfathomable coil."--_Tupper's Thoughts_, p. 170. "Whether
nat