id not_ my writings _produce_ me some solid pudding, the great
deficiency of praise would have quite discouraged me.--FRANKLIN.

_Had_ he for once _cast_ all such feelings aside, and _striven_
energetically to save Ney, it _would have cast_ such an enhancing
light over all his glories, that we cannot but regret its
absence.--BAYNE.

NOTE.--Conditional sentences are usually introduced by _if_,
_though_, _except_, _unless_, etc.; but when the verb precedes
the subject, the conjunction is often omitted: for example,
"_Were I bidden_ to say how the highest genius could be most
advantageously employed," etc.

Exercise.

In the following conditional clauses, tell whether each verb is
indicative or subjunctive, and what kind of condition:--

1. The voice, if he speak to you, is of similar physiognomy,
clear, melodious, and sonorous.--CARLYLE.

2. Were you so distinguished from your neighbors, would you, do
you think, be any the happier?--THACKERAY.

3. Epaminondas, if he was the man I take him for, would have sat
still with joy and peace, if his lot had been mine.--EMERSON.

4. If a damsel had the least smattering of literature, she was
regarded as a prodigy.--MACAULAY.

5. I told him, although it were the custom of our learned in
Europe to steal inventions from each other,... yet I would take
such caution that he should have the honor entire.--SWIFT.

6. If he had reason to dislike him, he had better not have
written, since he [Byron] was dead.--N.P. WILLIS.

7. If it were prostrated to the ground by a profane hand, what
native of the city would not mourn over its fall?--GAYARRE.

8. But in no case could it be justified, except it be for a
failure of the association or union to effect the object for
which it was created.--CALHOUN.

II. Subjunctive of Purpose.

223. The subjunctive, especially _be_, _may_, _might_, and _should_,
is used to express purpose, the clause being introduced by _that_ or
_lest_; as,--

It was necessary, he supposed, to drink strong beer, that he
_might be_ strong to labor.--FRANKLIN.

I have been the more particular...that you _may compare_ such
unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made
there.--_Id._

He [Roderick] with sudden impulse that way rode, To tell of what
had passed, lest in t