oy."--_Bible_.
That is,--"and he _can_ destroy."

"Virtue _may be assail'd_, but never _hurt_,
_Surpris'd_ by unjust force, but not _inthrall'd_."--_Milton_.

"Mortals whose pleasures are their only care,
First wish to be _imposed on_, and then _are_."--_Cowper_.

OBS. 17.--From the foregoing examples, it may be seen, that the complex and
divisible structure of the English moods and tenses, produces, when verbs
are connected together, a striking peculiarity of construction in our
language, as compared with the nearest corresponding construction in Latin
or Greek. For we can connect different auxiliaries, participles, or
principal verbs, without repeating, and apparently without connecting, the
other parts of the mood or tense. And although it is commonly supposed that
these parts are necessarily understood wherever they are not repeated,
there are sentences, and those not a few, in which we cannot express them,
without inserting also an additional nominative, and producing distinct
clauses; as, "_Should_ it not _be taken_ up and _pursued_?"--_Dr.
Chalmers_. "Where thieves _do_ not _break_ through nor _steal_."--_Matt._,
vi, 20. "None present _could_ either _read_ or _explain_ the
writing-."--_Wood's Dict._, Vol. i, p. 159. Thus we sometimes make a single
auxiliary an index to the mood and tense of more than one verb.

OBS. 18.--The verb _do_, which is sometimes an auxiliary and sometimes a
principal verb, is thought by some grammarians to be also fitly made a
_substitute_ for other verbs, as a pronoun is for nouns; but this doctrine
has not been taught with accuracy, and the practice under it will in many
instances be found to involve a solecism. In this kind of substitution,
there must either be a true ellipsis of the principal verb, so that _do_ is
only an auxiliary; or else the verb _do_, with its _object_ or _adverb_, if
it need one, must exactly correspond to an action described before; so that
to speak of _doing this_ or _thus_, is merely the shortest way of repeating
the idea: as, "He _loves_ not plays, as thou _dost_. Antony."--_Shak._ That
is, "as thou _dost love plays._" "This fellow is wise enough _to play the
fool_; and, _to do that_ well, craves a kind of wit."--_Id._ Here, "_to do
that_," is, "_to play the fool_." "I will not _do it_, if I find thirty
there."--_Gen._, xviii, 30. Do what? Destroy the city, as had been
threatened. Where _do_ is an auxiliary, there is no real substitution; an