The Grammar of English Grammars, page 500 by Gould Brown
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foretells."--_Buchanan's Gram._, p. 41. (3.) "Will, in the first person, promises, engages, or threatens. In the second and third persons, it merely foretels."--_Jaudon's Gram._, p. 59. (4.) "Will, in the first person singular and plural, promises or threatens; in the second and third persons, only foretells."--_Lowth's Gram._, p. 41. (5.) "Will, in the first person singular and plural, intimates resolution and promising; in the second and third person, only foretels."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 88; _Ingersoll's_, 136; _Fisk's_, 78; _A. Flint's_, 42; _Bullions's_, 32; _Hamlin's_, 41; _Cooper's Murray_, 50. [Fist] _Murray's Second Edition_ has it "foretells." (6.) "Will, in the first person singular and plural, expresses resolution and promising. In the second and third persons it only foretells."--_Comly's Gram._, p. 38; _E. Devis's_, 51; _Lennie's_, 22. (7.) "Will, in the first person, promises. In the second and third persons, it simply foretels."--_Maltby's Gram._, p. 24. (8.) "Will, in the first person implies resolution and promising; in the second and third, it foretells."--_Cooper's New Gram._, p. 51. (9.) "Will, in the first person singular and plural, promises or threatens; in the second and third persons, only foretels: shall, on the contrary, in the first person, simply foretels; in the second and third persons, promises, commands, or threatens."--_Adam's Lat. and Eng. Gram._, p. 83. (10.) "In the first person shall foretels, and will promises or _threatens_; but in the second and third persons will foretels, and shall promises or threatens."--_Blair's Gram._, p. 65.
"If Mævius scribble in Apollo's spight, There are who judge still worse than he can write."--Pope.
EXERCISE X.--MIXED ERRORS.
"I am liable to be charged that I latinize too much."--DRYDEN: in _Johnson's Dict._ "To mould him platonically to his own idea."--WOTTON: _ib._ "I will marry a wife as b