Excerpt from Transactions of the Philological Society, 1867 But of course the present time, as being the one of most interest tons, claimsourfirstattention; andstillmorewhen special forms come into use for the past and future, for then the idea of present time only the more attaches itself to the rmaining, unappropriated form. At any rate, it is a fact that the ao-called present is somewhat freely applied to both the past and the future - to the past, for example, in the historic present, and generally when the context is sufficient to fix the time, as in the Latin construction, Dam haec dicit, ab! Item, for here the conjunction dam, 'whilst, ' identifies the time of the two actions spoken of, so that the time not expressed in debit, is determined by the tense of atiit. Again in speaking of customs, the simple form, called a present, is only the more applicable, because it is silent on the question of time. The phrase Liyom in Occanum influit was true in (bar's time, is true now, and we may assume will continue to be true for all time short of a geological cycle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.