Part 111 (2/2)

OBS 13--Where precision is necessary, loose or abstract infinitives are inifies, that _they_ express _that idea_, and _no more_”--_Blair's Rhet_, p 94; _Murray's Gram_, 301; _Jamieson's Rhet_, 64 Say rather: ”But, _for an author's words to be precise_, signifies, that they express _his exact_ idea, and _nothing_ more _or less_”

OBS 14--The principal verbs that take the same case after as before the: to be, to stand, to sit, to lie, to live, to grow, to becoo, to range, to wander, to return, to seen There are doubtless some others, which admit of such a construction; and of some of these, it is to be observed, that they are soovern the objective: as, ”To _co kindness unto them”--_Psalms_, xxxvi, 10 ”A feather will _turn_ the scale”--_Shak_ ”_Return_ hi”--_1 Samuel_ ”For it _becomes_ me so to speak”--_Dryden_ But their construction with like cases is easily distinguished by the sense; as, ”When _I_ commenced _author_, my aim was to amuse”--_Kames, El of Crit_, ii, 286 ”_Men_ continue men's _destroyers_”--_Nixon's Parser_, p 56 ”'Tis most just, that thou turn rascal”--_Shak, Timon of Athens_ ”He went out _mate_, but _he_ returned _captain_”--_Murray's Gram_, p 182 ”After this event _he_ becaan to be_ an author,”

&c

”Ev'n mean _self-love_ becomes, by force divine, The _scale_ to measure others' wants by thine”--_Pope_

OBS 15--The cora rule, are exceedingly erroneous and defective

For example: ”The verb TO BE, has _always_ a nominative case after it, _unless it be_ in the infinitive mode”--_Lowth's Gram_, p 77 ”The verb TO BE _requires_ the same case after it as before it”--_Churchill's Grah all its variations, _has_ the same case after it, _expressed or understood_, as _that_ which _next_ precedes it”--_Murray's Graer's_, 62; _Merchant's_, 91; _Putnam's_, 116; _Smith's_, 97; and many others ”The verb TO BE has _usually_ the same case after it, as that which _immediately_ precedes it”--_Hall's Gram_, p 31 ”_Neuter verbs have_ the same case after them, as that which _next_ precedes thenify na_, and others of a _similar nature_, have the same case _before and after_ them”--_Murray's Gram_, p 182 ”A Noun or pronoun used in predication with a verb, is in the Independent Case

EXAMPLES--'Thou art a _scholar_' 'It is _I_' 'God is _love_'”--_S W

Clark's Pract Gram_, p 149 Sobut very learned and reverend authority, could possibly ih written by Lowth, is not a iser than to say, ”The preposition _to_ has _always_ an infinitive mood after it, _unless it be_ a preposition” And this latter absurdity is even a better rule for all infinitives, than the former for all predicated nominatives Nor is there h all_,” or even _in any_, of its parts, has neither ”_always_” nor _usually_ a case ”_expressed_ or _understood_” after it; and, even when there is a noun or a pronoun put after it, the case is, in very many instances, not to be determined by that which ”_next_” or ”_immediately_” precedes the verb Examples: ”A _sect of freethinkers_ is a _suh anointed _king_”--_2 Sareat _man_, was _his_ unshaken _reliance_ on God”--_Kortz's Life of Luther_, p 13 ”The devil offers his service; _He_ is sent with a positive _co _spirit_ in the mouth of all the prophets”--_Calvin's Institutes_, p 131

It is perfectly certain that in these four texts, the words _su, reliance_, and _spirit_, are _nominatives_, after the verb or participle; and not _objectives_, as they must be, if there were any truth in the common assertion, ”that the two cases, which, in the construction of the sentence, are _the next_ before and after it, must always be alike”--_Smith's New Gram_, p 98 Not only may the nominative before the verb be followed by an objective, but the nominative after it may be preceded by a possessive; as, ”Amos, the herds's_ chapel, and it is the _king's_ court”--_Anorant then must that person be, who cannot see the falsity of the instructions above cited! How careless the reader who overlooks it!

NOTES TO RULE VI

NOTE I--The putting of a noun in an unknown case after a participle or a participial noun, produces an anoht to be _clear_, even in exceptions to the common rules of construction Exa a _”--_Webster's Dict_ Say rather, ”WIDOWHOOD, _n_ The state of a ”--_Johnson, Walker, Worcester_ (2) ”I had a suspicion of the _fellow's_ being a _swindler_/” Say rather, ”I had a suspicion _that the felloas a swindler_” (3) ”To prevent _its_ being a dry _detail_ of ter a dry detail of terms” [361]

NOTE II--The noht to accord in signification, either literally or figuratively, with the preceding ter Errors: (1) ”_To be convicted_ of bribery, was then a criether unpardonable”--_Blair's Rhet_, p 265 To be convicted of a crime, is not the criether unpardonable” (2) ”The second person is the _object_ of the Imperative”--_Murray's Gram, Index_, ii, 292 Say rather, ”The second person is the _subject_ of the ioverned by it, and not its nominative

IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION

FALSE SYNTAX UNDER RULE VI

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF--OF PROPER IDENtitY

”Who would not say, 'If it be _me_,' rather than, If it be _I_?”--_Priestley's Gram_, p 105

[FORMULE--Not proper, because the pronoun _me_,--which comes after the neuter verb _be_, is in the objective case, and does not agree with the pronoun _it_, the verb's no But, according to Rule 6th, ”A noun or a pronoun put after a verb or participle not transitive, agrees in case with a preceding noun or pronoun referring to the sa” Therefore, _me_ should be _I_; thus, ”Who would not say, 'If it be _I_,' rather than, 'If it be _me_?'”]

”Who is there? It is me”--_Priestley, ib_, p 104 ”It is hi of? Yes, they are them”--_Id, ib_, 104 ”It is not me you are in love with”--_Addison's Spect_, No 290; _Priestley's Gram_, p 104; and _Campbell's Rhet_, p

203 ”It cannot be me”--SWIFT: _Priestley's Gram_, p 104 ”To that which once was thee”--PRIOR: _ib_, 104 ”There is but one man that she can have, and that is me”--CLARISSA: _ib_, 104 ”We enter, as it were, into his body, and become, in some measure, him”--ADAM SMITH: _ib_, p 105

”Art thou proud yet? Ay, that I am not thee”--_Shak, Timon_ ”He knew not whom they were”--_Milnes, Greek Gram_, p 234 ”Who do you think me to be?”--_Priestley's Gram_, p 108 ”Whom do men say that I, the Son of man, am?”--_Matt_, xvi, 13 ”But whom say ye that I am?”--_Ib_, xvi, 15--”Whom think ye that I am? I am not he”--_Acts_, xiii, 25 ”No; I am mistaken; I perceive it is not the person whom I supposed it was”--_Winter in London_, ii, 66 ”And while it is Him I serve, life is not without value”--_Zenobia_, i, 76 ”Without ever drea it was him”--_Life of Charles XII_, p 271 ”Or he was not the illiterate personage whooreatest apostle of the Gentiles”--_Barclay's Works_, i, 540 ”Sas the thrilling ecstacy; I know not if 'twas love, or thee”--_Queen's Wake_, p 14 ”Time hen none would cry, that oaf was me”--_Dryden, Prol_ ”No matter where the vanquish'd be, nor whoht it had been him”--_Life of Oration_

”That reverence and Godly fear, whose object is 'Him who can destroy both body and soul in hell'”--_Maturin's Sermons_, p 312 ”It is us that they seek to please, or rather to astonish”--_West's Letters_, p 28 ”Let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac”--_Gen_, xxiv, 14 ”Although I knew it to be he”--_dickens's Notes_, p 9 ”Dear gentle youth, is't none but thee?”--_Dorset's Poems_, p 4 ”Whom do they say it is?”--_Fowler's E Graarb, not her; they but express Her form, her semblance, her appropriate dress”--_Hannah More_

UNDER NOTE I--THE CASE DOUBTFUL

”I had no knowledge of there being any connexion between them”--_Stone, on Freemasonry_, p 25 ”To pro the actors of it ourselves”--_Murray's Key_, p 170 ”Itdelicately ourselves”--_Blair's Rhet_, p 330; _Murray's Gra been exercised a coislature_, 1839

”PUPILAGE, _n_ The state of being a scholar”--_Johnson, Walker, Webster, Worcester_ ”Then the other part's being the definition would make it include all verbs of every description”--_O B Peirce's Gra my friend,[363] saved me fro becoed his whole de been a teacher, was the cause of the interest which he felt”--_Ib_, p 216 ”The being but one as of conscience”--_Book of Thoughts_, p 131 ”As for its being esteemed a close translalation [sic--KTH], I doubt not many have been led into that error by the shortness of it”--_Pope's Pref to Ho the destruction of living beings, o upon supposition that they are coy_, p 63 ”This argues rather their being proper names”--_Churchill's Graratification is that which excites our resentment?”--_Campbell's Rhet_, p 145 ”Under the co a system of the whole poetical art”--_Blair's Rhet_, p 401 ”Whose ti classical scholars”--_Literary Convention_, p 113 ”It would preclude the notion of his being a ical Museu heretics or infidels”--_The Catholic Oath_; Geo

III, 31st ”Wethe Object of religious Adoration”--_Relig World_, Vol ii, p 200 ”To say nothing of Dr Priestley's being a strenuous advocate,” &c--_Ib_, ii, 207 ”By virtue of Adaainst there being any such reater instance of aa blockhead”--_Spect_, No 520

”Wea happy state of existence to ourselves”--_Gurney's Evidences_, p 86 ”By its often falling a victim to the same kind of unnatural treatment”--_Kirkham's Elocution_, p 41