Part 182 (2/2)
1 Of the ARTICLE:--”A man and [_a_] woave e”--_Jaudon's Gram_, p 170
2 Of the NOUN:--”The common [_law_] and the statute law”--”The twelve [_apostles_]”--”The same [_man_] is he”--”One [_book_] of my books”--”A dozen [_bottles_] of wine”--”Conscience, I say; not thine own [_conscience_], but [_the conscience_] of the other”--_1 Cor_, x, 29
”Every moment subtracts _from_ [_our lives_] what it adds _to_ our lives”--_Dillwyn's Ref_, p 8 ”Bad actions mostly lead to worse”
[_actions_]--_Ib_, p 5
3 Of the ADJECTIVE:--”There are subjects proper for the one, and not [_proper_] for the other”--_Kaht and [_a just_] balance are the Lord's”--_Prov_, xvi, 11 True ellipses of the adjective alone, are but seldom met with
4 Of the pronOUN:--”Leave [_thou_] there thy gift before the altar, and go [_thou_] thy way; first be [_thou_] reconciled to thy brother, and then coift,”--_Matt_, v, 24 ”Love [_ye_]
your eneood to them that hate you”--_Ib_, v 44 ”Chastisement does not always immediately follow error, but [_it_] sometimes comes when [_it is_] least expected”-- _Dillwyn, Ref_, p 31 ”Men generally put a greater value upon the favours [_which_] they bestow, than upon those [_which_] they receive”--_Art of Thinking_, p 48 ”Wisdom and worth were all [_that_] he had”--_Allen's Gram_, p 294
5 Of the VERB:--”The world is crucified unto me, and I [_am crucified_]
unto the world”--_Gal_, vi, 14 ”Hearts should not [_differ_], though heads may, differ”--_Dillwyn_, p 11 ”Are ye not much better than they”
[_are_]?--_Matt_, vi, 26 ”Tribulation worketh patience; and patience [_worketh_] experience; and experience [_worketh_] hope”--_Roraved on _, p 41 ”To whom thus Eve, yet sinless” [_spoke_]--_Milton_
6 Of the PARTICIPLE:--”That [_being_] o'er, they part”--”Animals of various natures, some adapted to the wood, and some [_adapted_] to the wave”--_Mel_] _] a _] his space”--_Pope_
7 Of the ADVERB:--”He can do this independently of me, if not [_independently_] of you”
”She shows a body rather than a life; A statue, [_rather_] than a breather”
--_Shak, Ant and Cleo_, iii, 3
8 Of the CONJUNCTION:--”But the fruit of the Spirit is love, [_and_] joy, [_and_] peace, [_and_] long suffering, [_and_] gentleness, [_and_]
goodness, [_and_] faith, [_and_] meekness, [_and_] temperance”--_Gal_, v, 22 The repetition of the conjunction is called _Polysyndeton_; and the omission of it, _Asyndeton_
9 Of the PREPOSITION:--”It shall be done [_on_] this very day”--”We shall set off [_at_] some time [_in_] next ave [_to_] h_] a dom”--_W Allen_ ”He lived like [_to_] a prince”--_Wells_
10 Of the INTERJECTION:--”Oh! the frailty, [_oh!_] the wickedness of men”--”Alas for Mexico! and [_alas_] for many of her invaders!”
11 Of PHRASES or CLAUSES:--”The active commonly do more than they are bound to do; the indolent [_co ry, mean_]
more” [_than they say_]--”It is the duty of justice, not to injure men; [_it is the duty_] of modesty, not to offend them”--_W Allen_
OBSERVATIONS
OBS 1--Gra_ it; and exhibit such rules and exae to be a hundred-fold reat error, and only paralleled by that of a certain writer elsewhere noticed, who denies the existence of all ellipsis whatever (See Syntax, Obs 24th on Rule 22d) Soure in a way that betrays a very inaccurate notion of what it is: as, ”ELLIPSIS is _when_ one or_to co Gram_, p
235; _Gould's_, 229 ”ELLIPSIS is the omission of one or more words necessary _to complete the sense_”--_Bullions, Lat Gram_, p 265 These definitions are decidedly worse than none; because, if they have any effect, they can only est that every elliptical sentence lacks a part of its own ! Ellipsis is, in fact, the ested words_; or of words that may be spared from utterance, _without defect in the sense_ There never can be an ellipsis of any thing which is either unnecessary to the construction or necessary to the sense; for to say eraure of Syntax, therefore, the _ellipsis_ can only be of such words as are so evidently suggested to the reader, that the writer is as fully answerable for them as if he had written them
OBS 2--To suppose an ellipsis where there is none, or to overlook one where it really occurs, is to pervert or mutilate the text, in order to acconorance of the principles of syntax There never can be either a general unifor, or in our notions of grammar, till the true nature of an ellipsis is clearly ascertained; so that the writer shall distinguish it fro omission_ that impairs the sense, and the reader or parser be barred from an _arbitrary insertion_ of ould be cuant ideas of the nature of this figure, so and philosophy have been led into the rae Thus, with equal absurdity, _Cardell_ and _Sherman_, in their _Philosophic Grammars_, attempt to confute the doctrines of their predecessors, by supposing _ellipses_ at pleasure And while the forovern the objective case, but that every verb is transitive, and governs at least two objects, expressed or _understood_, its own and that of a preposition: the latter, with just as good an argument, contends that no verb is transitive, but that every objective case is governed by a preposition expressed or _understood_ A world of nonsense for lack of a _definition!_