CHAPTER III.—CASES, OR NOUNS.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE II; OF NOMINATIVES.
"The whole need not a physician, but they that are sick."—Bunyan cor. "He will in no wise cast out whosoever cometh unto him." Better: "He will in no wise cast out any that come unto him."—Hall cor. "He feared the enemy might fall upon his men, who, he saw, were off their guard."—Hutchinson cor. "Whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain."—Matt., v, 41. "The ideas of the author have been conversant with the faults of other writers."—Swift cor. "You are a much greater loser than I, by his death." Or: "Thou art a much greater loser by his death than I."—Id. "Such peccadilloes pass with him for pious frauds."—Barclay cor. "In whom I am nearly concerned, and who, I know, would be very apt to justify my whole procedure."—Id. "Do not think such a man as I contemptible for my garb."—Addison cor. "His wealth and he bid adieu to each other."—Priestley cor. "So that, 'He is greater than I,' will be more grammatical than, 'He is greater than me.'"—Id. "The Jesuits had more interests at court than he."—Id. and Smollett cor. "Tell the Cardinal that I understand poetry better than he."—Iid. "An inhabitant of Crim Tartary was far more happy than he."—Iid. "My father and he have been very intimate since."—Fair Am. cor. "Who was the agent, and who, the object struck or kissed?"—Mrs. Bethune cor. "To find the person who, he imagined, was concealed there."—Kirkham cor. "He offered a great recompense to whosoever would help him." Better: "He offered a great recompense to any one who would help him."—Hume and Pr. cor. "They would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever (or any one who) might exercise the right of judgement."—Haynes cor. "They had promised to accept whosoever (or any one who) should be born in Wales."—Croker cor. "We sorrow not as they that have no hope."—Maturin cor. "If he suffers, he suffers as they that have no hope."—Id. "We acknowledge that he, and he only, hath been our peacemaker."—Gratton cor. "And what can be better than he that made it?"—Jenks cor. "None of his school-fellows is more beloved than he."—Cooper cor. "Solomon, who was wiser than they all."—Watson cor. "Those who the Jews thought were the last to be saved, first entered the kingdom of God."—Tract cor. "A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than both."—Bible cor. "A man of business, in good company, is hardly more insupportable, than she whom they call a notable woman."—Steele cor. "The king of the Sarmatians, who we may imagine was no small prince, restored to him a hundred thousand Roman prisoners."—Life of Anton. cor. "Such notions would be avowed at this time by none but rosicrucians, and fanatics as mad as they."—Campbell's Rhet., p. 203. "Unless, as I said, Messieurs, you are the masters, and not I."—Hall cor. "We had drawn up against peaceable travellers, who must have been as glad as we to escape."—Burnes cor. "Stimulated, in turn, by their approbation and that of better judges than they, she turned to their literature with redoubled energy."—Quarterly Rev. cor. "I know not who else are expected."—Scott cor. "He is great, but truth is greater than we all." Or: "He is great, but truth is greater than any of us."—H. Mann cor.. "He I accuse has entered." Or, by ellipsis of the antecedent, thus: "Whom I accuse has entered."—Fowler cor.; also Shakspeare.
"Scotland and thou did each in other live."—Dryden cor.
"We are alone; here's none but thou and I."—Shak. cor.
"I rather would, my heart might feel your love, Than my unpleas'd eye see your courtesy."—Shak. cor.
"Tell me, in sadness, who is she you love?"—Shak. cor.
"Better leave undone, than by our deeds acquire
Too high a fame, when he we serve's away."—Shak. cor.