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The Daily Dispatch: June 28, 1864., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: June 28, 1864., [Electronic resource], A Review. (search)
mpression is confirmed by the frequent occurrence of certain expressions in the translated text, which by a too faithful difference to the original French, have a ten to French fly the English Version. We constantly meet with expressions like these well to my long enjoin at the the camp where, for more than a year, I have occupied, &c." Strike out "have been" and insert "was." The form here adopted to express time would be good in French, but in English. It is constantly occurring in Millord's History of Greece, which, although a work of great power and is a proverb for its bad English Webster, who was a good grammarian though a bad speller, says very justly, when speaking of the use of this very expression, "the tense he was, he arrived, he is not properly called the imperfect tense. These verbs, and all verbs of this time, denote actions, finished or perfect. As in six days God created." (not has created observe) "the heavens and the earth."--This of the perfect tense of