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VI. Theory of the Moods of Verbs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2013

James Gregory
James Gregory
Affiliation:
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and Professor of the Theory of Physic in the University of Edinburgh.
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Extract

In the prosecution of certain philological and philosophical speculations, very ample specimens of which have already been submitted to the consideration of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, I had occasion to consider more minutely than I believe had ever been done before, many particulars relating to the nature, the structure, and the import of Verbs.

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Papers Read Before the Society
Information
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , 1790 , pp. 193 - 250
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1790

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References

page 218 note * I Believe the nearest we can come to it is by the use of the imperative of a verb of affirming with the infinitive of the primary verb.

Dic mihi Damœta cujam pecus, an Melibœi?

Cujus est pecus? Dic cujus pecus est.

Jubeo te mihi dicere cujus pecus est.

page 220 note * Ms Horne Tooke

page 232 note * Videsis Plutarch's Apophthegms.