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It is necessary to the full and upright character of truth that it rejects the crutch; and it is consistent with the character of fable to seek the aid that truth rejects. Thus much for Mystery and Miracle. As Mystery and Miracle took charge of the past and the present, Prophecy took charge of the future, and rounded the tenses of faith.
The most advanced of us, and those that have longest been like Anna, who 'departed not from the Temple, day nor night, will certainly eject ourselves unless, like the Psalmist, we use the verbs in both tenses, and say, 'One thing have I desired ... that will I seek after. John Bunyan saw that there was a back door to the lower regions close by the gates of the Celestial City.
Grammar is the etiquette of words, and the man who does not know how to properly salute his grandmother on the street until he has consulted a book, is always so troubled about his tenses that his fancies break through language and escape. Orators who keep their thoughts upon the proper way to gesticulate in curves impress nobody.
But yet, when I could keep her in good-humor, it was exceedingly sweet to bide quietly in the house with the Little Playmate far better than to gad about with Texels and meandering fools, which indeed I did oftentimes just because it made my little lass so full of moods and tenses like one of Friar Laurence's irregular verbs in his cursed Humanities.
Hitherto, Master Thistlewood had been rather proud of his bad French, and as long as he could be understood, considered trampling on genders, tenses, and moods as a manful assertion of Englishry, but he would just now have given a great deal for the command of any language but a horseboy's, to use to this beautiful gracious personage.
This confusion of tenses, this grand solecism of two presents, is in a degree common to all postage.
Strange as it seems that really accomplished Greek scholars should have charged Plato and Demosthenes, speaking the most perfect of tongues, with arbitrary interchanges of moods and tenses, yet the same views continued to be presented in grammatical works down to the close of the last century.
He took his pen and gave to a friend his own views of the events of the day. "Mr. DEAR, We are still in Newport, conjugating the verb s'ennuyer, which I, for one, have put through all the moods and tenses. Pour passer le temps, however, I have la belle Française and my sweet little Puritan. I visited there this morning.
Neither breaking my neck nor coming near it will convert me." "Well, I hope you will get through your moods and tenses to-day. You have had more than I ever remember within so short a time." With this comforting statement Bel left her friend to herself, who sat staring into the fire in the most discontented manner. "'Capable of the noblest things, indeed," she thought.
"Hump, I have studied some grammar in my time, and I think your tenses are tangled. 'Was mine, you should have said, not 'is mine." "It is a question, not of grammar, but of ethics," I answered. It was possibly a minute before he spoke.
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