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She came to them with the tone that they required, with the cordial accent which existed before they were, which dictated them, but which is not to be found in the words themselves, and by these means she smoothed away, as she read on, any harshness there might be or discordance in the tenses of verbs, endowing the imperfect and the preterite with all the sweetness which there is in generosity, all the melancholy which there is in love; guided the sentence that was drawing to an end towards that which was waiting to begin, now hastening, now slackening the pace of the syllables so as to bring them, despite their difference of quantity, into a uniform rhythm, and breathed into this quite ordinary prose a kind of life, continuous and full of feeling.
"SOMMERFELD, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 1st, Friedrich finds that Loudon was there last night, preterite tense, alas; the question now being, Where is he!" And has borne off more to leftward. Straight north now, and at a very brisk pace; being now all of horse; and has an important conference with Haddick at Guben, when they arrive there. Which was the fact; though not the whole fact.
The lower classes of the Arabs have discovered a fanciful confirmation of their charge against the Turks in one of the Grand Signor's titles, Khan, an ancient Tatar word, which in Arabic signifies "he betrayed," being the preterite of the verb ykhoun, "to betray."
And in the preterite of the same verb, mattara, he has taken it away: mattaratit, he has taken it away from thee. This example from the Greenland language shows how the governed and the personal pronouns form one compound, in the American languages, with the root of the verb. In the forests of the Orinoco I have seen the rudest Indians speak two or three tongues.
Nevertheless, some words are an exception, as though to prove that the language was originally common to all. The preterite of the German dialect is formed by adding ium to the imperative, which is always the root of the verb. In the Spanish Romany the verbs are all conjugated on the model of the first conjugation of the Castilian verbs.
It may, however, be remarked, that wherever the Imperative ends in e, the Preterite has the form in m; thus, pid-e = dig, pid-ema = dug. The only exception is the anomalous form peneingodgi = dived. This prepares the future grammarian for a division of the Kowrarega Verbs into Conjugations. The last class of words that supply the materials of comment are the Substantives.
In polysyllabic words in which there are no long vowels, all the vowels are intermediate. Vowels are "with stress" when they are the finals in the plurals of nouns and verbs, also in the perfect preterite, in possessives ending in â, ê, ô, and in the penultimate of nouns ending in tli, tla and tle when these syllables are immediately preceded by the vowel.
Profligare hostes, etc., is the common expression. XIV. Jam vero==porro. Cf. Boet. Lex. Tac. It marks a transition to a topic of special importance. Cf. See Doed, in loc. Recessisse. All the best Latin writers are accustomed to use the preterite after pudet, taedet, and other words of the like signification. Guen. The cause of shame is prior to the shame. Infame.
Indeed, we did not ourselves tarry long among the shades, for we were young, and youth has little use for the preterite; its verbs are wont to have but two tenses. We soon came up to the surface in one, with eyes turned instinctively on the other.
He was a most ultra specimen of le chevalier amoureux a mixture of Don Quixote and the Duc de Lauzun. Whenever he spoke of the present tense, even en professeur, he always gave a sigh to the preterite, and an anecdote of Bayard; whenever he conjugated a verb, he paused to tell me that the favourite one of his female pupils was je t'aime.
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