Prefent, To have; Paft, To have had. Participle. Prefent, Having: Perfect (1), Had: Paft, Having had. being an Auxiliary, is formed regularly in those Perfons: I will, Thou willeft, He willeth, or wills. Thou, that are the author and beftower of life, canft doubtless restore it also, if thou will st, and when thou will'st: but whether thou will ft (wilt) please to reftore it or not, that Thou alone knoweft. Atterbury, Serm. I. 7. (1) This Participle represents the action as complete and finished; and, being fubjoined to the Auxiliary to have, conftitutes the perfect Time: I call it therefore the Perfect Participle. The fame, fubjoined to the Auxiliary to be, conftitutes the Paffive Verb; and in that flate, or when used without the Auxiliary in a Paffive sense, is called the Paffive Participle. E Let them be. (1) "I think it be thine indeed for thou lieft in it." Shakspeare, Hamlet. Be Time and Mode, especially in the third Perfon, is obfolete; and is become fomewhat antiquated in the Plural. in the Singular Number of this "I knew thou wert not flow to hear. ›› "Thou who of old wert fent to Ifrael's court. » Thou, Stella, wert no longer young, When first for thee my harp I ftrung.” Milton. Dryden. Addifon. Prior. Popc. Swift. Shall we in deference to these great authorities allow wert to be the fame with waft, and common to the Indicative and Subjun&ive Mode? or rather abide by the practice of our best ancient writers; the propriety of the language, which requires, as far as may be, diftin&t forms for different Modes; and the analogy of formation in each Mode; I was, Thou waft; I were, Thou wert? all which confpire to make wert peculiar to the Subjunctive Mode. The Verb Active is thus varied according to (1) The other form of the Firft Perfon Plural of the Im perative, love we is grown obfolete. (1) Note, that the Imperfect and Perfe& Time are here put together. And it is to be observed, that in the Subjun&tive Mode, the event being spoken of under a condition, or fuppofition, or in the form of a wish, and therefore as doubtful and contingent, the Verb itself in the Present, and the Auxiliary both of the Present and Past Imperfe& Times, often carry with them fomewhat of a Future fenfe : he come to-morrow as, "If "if he ເ. It I may speak to him: » should, or would, come to-morrow, I might, would, could, or fhould, fpeak to him." Obferve alfo, that the Auxiliaries should and would in the Imperfe& Times are used to exprefs the Present and Future as well as the Past; as, is my defire, that he should, or would, come now, or tomorrow; as well as, « It was my defire, that he should, or would, come yesterday. So that in this Mode the precife Time of the Verb is very much determined by the nature and drift of the Sentence. |