Section 7. TO FORGIVE IS[1] TO FORGET.
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Section 7. TO FORGIVE IS[1] TO FORGET.
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is[2] only another way of saying: “I will not forgive.” A wrong once forgiven[3] ought[4] to be like[5] a cancelled note[6], torn in two and burned up, so[7] that it never can be shown against the man.—Rev. H. W. Beecher.
We met with a ship bound for Bremen. Wir trafen ein nach Bremen bestimmtes Schiff.
B. Clauses containing a Perfect Participle, however, may also be rendered by the help of a relative pronoun. Thus rendered, the preceding sentence would read:
Wir trafen ein Schiff, welches nach Bremen bestimmt war;
but the first rendering is certainly more concise than the second, and it is to be preferred in all cases where the attributive construction would not be too lengthy. ‘A wrong once forgiven’, say ‘A forgiven wrong’, and mark that: When Participles are used attributively, and precede the noun they qualify, they must be inflected like adjectives.