Author: David Hume
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230417660
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Languages : en
Pages : 182

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... SCOTTICISMS.1 Will, in the first person, as I will walk, we will walk, expresses the intention or resolution of the person, along with the future event: In the second and third person, as, you will, he will, they will, it expresses the future action or event, without comprehending or excluding the volition. Shall, in the first person, whether singular or plural, expresses the future action or event, without excluding or comprehending the intention or resolution: But in the second or third person, it marks a necessity, and commonly a necessity proceeding from the person who speaks; as, he shall walk, you shall repent it. These variations seem to have proceeded from a politeness in the English, who, in speaking to others, or of others, made use of the term will, which implies volition, even where the event may be the subject of necessity and constraint. And in speaking of themselves, made use of the term shall, which implies constraint, even though the event may be the object of choice. Wou'd and shou'd are conjunctive moods, subject to the same rule; only, we may observe, that in a sentence, where there is a condition exprest, and a consequence of that condition, the former always requires shou'd, and the latter wou'd, in the second and third persons; as, if he should fall, he wou'd break his leg, etc. These is the plural of this; those of that. The former, 1 [This List of Scotticisms, printed from the Edinburgh Edition of 1826, is said to occur in some copies of the 'Political Discourses, ' Edition H. The present Editor has not found it in any Edition published during Hume's lifetime.--"I told him that David Hume had made a short collection of .Scotticisms. 'I wonder (said Johnson) that he should find thom.' "--Eosweix.] therefore, ...