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We do not talk of such things at all in good society." Now I say this to my book, of course, not to Grandmamma is not that very strange? Would it not be better the other way about? The use of the subjunctive with when and until, now obsolete, was correct English until the present century was some thirty years old. "God has a few of us whom He whispers in the ear."
See Roby, 1720, Kennedy, 211; also A. 325, 323 and footnote 1; G. 586 with Rem.; H. 521, II. 2 and footnote 1. EXORATUS EST: 'was persuaded'; cf. Liv. 39, 43. SECURI FERIRET: the story was that L. Flamininus himself acted as executioner. EORUM QUI ... ESSENT: the subjunctive because of the class-notion, 'of such persons as were'. TITO CENSORE: i.e. in 189 B.C.; see n. on 1.
QUAMVIS SIT: prose writers of the Republican period use quamvis with the subjunctive only; see Roby, 1624, 1627; A. 313,a, g; G. 608; H. 515, III. and n. 3. CUI: see n. on 38 viventi. AD VESPERUM ESSE VICTURUM: 'that he will be alive when evening comes', not 'that he will live till the evening'. With the prepositions ad, sub, in the form vesper is generally used, not vespera. With this passage cf.
Finally, one word for myself. I have not hesitated to speak strongly where I have felt strongly; and I am but too conscious that the indicative and imperative moods have too often taken the place of the more becoming subjunctive and conditional.
It was part of the principle of the school that the boys should manage all these things for themselves, as it was considered that to learn practically how to set such matters going and keep them in order was quite as educational as to acquire the right use of the subjunctive.
At the end of each lesson he knows he has acquired something, and he also knows what that something is, and likewise that it will stay with him. It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think you've got it, they spring the subjunctive on you, and there you are.
He several times confesses this as regards Lucullus and Catulus in the Academica, and as regards Antonius in the De Oratore. FERAT: subjunctive because embodying the sentiment of Laelius and Scipio. Roby, 1744; Madvig, 357; H. 516, II. SUIS LIBRIS etc.: for the allusions here to Cato's life, works, and opinions see Introd.
In no country in Europe is the language kept freer from dialect, and this notwithstanding the fact that it is one of involved grammatical forms. In France the use of the imperfect subjunctive is given up by the lower classes and by foreigners, but in Portugal the peasant has still deeper subtleties of speech at the end of his tongue.
Putarent = 'thought, as they said'. ID QUOD ESSET ACCUSANDUM: the subjunctive esset is used because a class of things is referred to, 'nothing of a nature to deserve complaint'; id quod erat, etc. would have meant merely 'that one thing which was matter for complaint'. A. 320; G. 634, Rem. 1; H. 503, I. USU VENIRENT: the phrase usu venire differs very little in meaning from accidere. Verg.
I saw Tom Kinlay looking absently towards the window where I stood, and fearing that he would notice me, I moved a step nearer the door. Then I heard Mr. Drever speak. "Kinlay," said he, "finish the subjunctive mood, where Jessie Grey left off." Tom's trembling voice betrayed his ignorance of the-lesson. "Regor, I am ruled; regeris, thou " "No, no," interrupted the master.
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