 and whose
business it was to open their minds, and stock them early with ideas, in order
to set the imagination loose upon them, have made so little use of the auxiliary
verbs in doing it, as they have done -- So that, except Raymond Lullius, and the
elder Pelegrini, the last of which arrived to such perfection in the use of 'em,
with his topics, that in a few lessons, he could teach a young gentleman to
discourse with plausibility upon any subject, pro and con, and to say and write
all that could be spoken or written concerning it, without blotting a word, to
the admiration of all who beheld him. - I should be glad, said Yorick,
interrupting my father, to be made to comprehend this matter. You shall, said my
father.
    The highest stretch of improvement a single word is capable of, is a high
metaphor, -- for which, in my opinion, the idea is generally the worse, and not
the better; -- but be that as it may, - when the mind has done that with it -
there is an end, - the mind and the idea are at rest, - until a second idea
enters; -- and so on.
    Now the use of the Auxiliaries is, at once to set the soul a going by
herself upon the materials as they are brought her; and by the versability of
this great engine, round which they are twisted, to open new tracks of enquiry,
and make every idea engender millions.
    You excite my curiosity greatly, said Yorick.
    For my own part, quoth my uncle Toby, I have given it up. -- The Danes, an'
please your honour, quoth the corporal, who were on the left at the siege of
Limerick, were all auxiliaries. -- And very good ones, said my uncle Toby. - But
the auxiliaries, Trim, my brother is talking about, - I conceive to be different
things. --
    -- You do? said my father, rising up.
 

                                  Chap. XLIII.

My father took a single turn across the room, then sat down and finished the
chapter.
    The verbs auxiliary we are concerned in here, continued my father, are, am;
was; have; had; do; did; make; made; suffer; shall; should; will; would; can;
could; owe; ought; used; or is wont. - And these varied with tenses, present,
past, future, and conjugated with the verb see, - or
