But practice hath determined it otherwise; and has, in all the
languages with which we are much acquainted, supplied the place of an
interrogative mode, either by particles of interrogation, or by a peculiar
order of the words in the sentence."--_Lowth's Gram._, p. 84. "If the Lord
have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering."--_1 Sam._,
xxvi, 19. "But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have
no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she
shall eat of her father's meat."--_Levit._, xxii, 13. "Since we never have,
nor ever shall study your sublime productions."--_Neef's Sketch_, p. 62.
"Enabling us to form more distinct images of objects, than can be done with
the utmost attention where these particulars are not found."--_Kames, El.
of Crit._, Vol. i, p. 174. "I hope you will consider what is spoke comes
from my love."--_Shak., Othello_. "We will then perceive how the designs of
emphasis may be marred,"--_Rush, on the Voice_, p. 406. "I knew it was
Crab, and goes me to the fellow that whips the dogs."--SHAK: _Joh. Dict.,
w._ ALE. "The youth was being consumed by a slow malady."--_Wright's
Gram._, p. 192. "If all men thought, spoke, and wrote alike, something
resembling a perfect adjustment of these points may be accomplished."--
_Ib._, p. 240. "If you will replace what has been long since expunged from
the language."--_Campbell's Rhet._, p. 167; _Murray's Gram._, i, 364. "As
in all those faulty instances, I have now been giving."--_Blair's Rhet._,
p. 149. "This mood has also been improperly used in the following
places."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 184. "He [Milton] seems to have been well
acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature had
bestowed upon him."--_Johnson's Life of Milton_. "Of which I already gave
one instance, the worst, indeed, that occurs in all the poem."--_Blair's
Rhet._, p. 395. "It is strange he never commanded you to have done
it."--_Anon_. "History painters would have found it difficult, to have
invented such a species of beings."--ADDISON: see _Lowth's Gram._, p. 87.
"Universal Grammar cannot be taught abstractedly, it must be done with
reference to some language already known."--_Lowth's Preface_, p. viii.
"And we might imagine, that if verbs had been so contrived, as simply to
express these, no more was needful."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 82. "To a writer
of such a genius as Dean Swift, the plain style was most admirably
fitted."