LESSON X.—PREPOSITIONS.
"These may be carried on progressively beyond any assignable limits."—Kames cor. "To crowd different subjects into a single member of a period, is still worse than to crowd them into one period."—Id. "Nor do we rigidly insist on having melodious prose."—Id. "The aversion we have to those who differ from us."—Id. "For we cannot bear his shifting of the scene at every line."—Halifax cor. "We shall find that we come by it in the same way."—Locke cor. "Against this he has no better defence than that."—Barnes cor. "Searching the person whom he suspects of having stolen his casket."—Dr. Blair cor. "Who, as vacancies occur, are elected by the whole Board."—Lit. Jour. cor. "Almost the only field of ambition for a German, is science."—Lieber cor. "The plan of education is very different from the one pursued in the sister country."—Coley cor. "Some writers on grammar have contended, that adjectives sometimes relate to verbs, and modify their action."—Wilcox cor. "They are therefore of a mixed nature, participating the properties both of pronouns and of adjectives."— Ingersoll cor. "For there is no authority which can justify the inserting of the aspirate or the doubling of the vowel."—Knight cor. "The distinction and arrangement of active, passive, and neuter verbs."— Wright cor. "And see thou a hostile world spread its delusive snares."—Kirkham cor. "He may be precautioned, and be made to see how those join in the contempt."—Locke cor. "The contenting of themselves in the present want of what they wished for, is a virtue."— Id. "If the complaint be about something really worthy of your notice."—Id. "True fortitude I take to be the quiet possession of a man's self, and an undisturbed doing of his duty."—Id. "For the custom of tormenting and killing beasts, will, by degrees, harden their minds even towards men."—Id. "Children are whipped to it, and made to spend many hours of their precious time uneasily at Latin."—Id. "On this subject, [the Harmony of Periods,] the ancient rhetoricians have entered into a very minute and particular detail; more particular, indeed, than on any other head that regards language."—See Blair's Rhet., p. 122. "But the one should not be omitted, and the other retained." Or: "But the one should not be used without the other."—Bullions cor. "From some common forms of speech, the relative pronoun is usually omitted."—Murray and Weld cor. "There are very many causes which disqualify a witness for being received to testify in particular cases."—Adams cor. "Aside from all regard to interest, we should expect that," &c.—Webster cor. "My opinion was given after a rather cursory perusal of the book."—L. Murray cor. "And, [on] the next day, he was put on board of his ship." Or thus: "And, the next day, he was put aboard his ship."—Id. "Having the command of no emotions, but what are raised by sight."—Kames cor. "Did these moral attributes exist in some other being besides himself." Or:—"in some other being than himself."—Wayland cor. "He did not behave in that manner from pride, or [from] contempt of the tribunal."—Murray's Sequel, p. 113. "These prosecutions against William seem to have been the most iniquitous measures pursued by the court."—Murray and Priestley cor. "To restore myself to the good graces of my fair critics."—Dryden cor. "Objects denominated beautiful, please not by virtue of any one quality common to them all."—Dr. Blair cor. "This would have been less worthy of notice, had not a writer or two of high rank lately adopted it."—Churchill cor.
"A Grecian youth, of talents rare,
Whom Plato's philosophic care," &c.—WHITEHEAD: E. R., p. 196.