You _may read_ the book which I _have printed_. _May_, an irregular
active verb, signifying "to have and to exercise might or strength,"
indic. mood, pres. tense, second pers. plur. agreeing with its nom.
_you. Read_, an irregular verb active, infinitive mood, pres. tense,
with the sign _to_ understood, referring to _you_ as its agent.
_Have_, an active verb, signifying to _possess_, indic. present, and
having for its object, book understood after "which." _Printed_, a
perf. participle, referring to book understood.
Johnson, and Blair, and Lowth, _would have been laughed at, had_
they _essayed_ to _thrust_ any thing like our modernized
philosophical grammar down the throats of their contemporaries.
_Would_, an active verb, signifying "to exercise volition," in the
past tense of the indicative. _Have_, a verb, in the infinitive,
_to_ understood. _Been_, a perfect part. of to _be_, referring to
Johnson, Blair, and Lowth. _Laughed at_, perf. part, of to _laugh
at_, referring to the same as _been. Had_, active verb, in the past
tense of the indicative, agreeing with its nom. _they. Essayed_,
perf. part, referring to they.
Call this "_philosophical_ parsing, on reasoning principles,
according to the original laws of nature and of thought," and the
_pill_ will be swallowed, by pedants and their dupes, with the
greatest ease imaginable.
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