Avoid an attorney, for the same is a cunning rogue.
Yet the legal profession are always boasting of their deeds.
Verbs neuter have an accusative case of a like signification to themselves, as
Pomarii asinus duram servit servitutem:
A coster-monger’s donkey serves a hard servitude.
Poor animal! A Sterne heart was once melted by thy sufferings—how then must they affect that of the gentle reader?
There are some verbs which have an accusative case by a figure, as
Nec vox hominem sonat;
Nor does your voice sound like a human creature’s.
This may be said of boys of various kinds—as pot-boys, butcher’s boys, baker’s boys, and other boys who are in the habit of bawling down areas; also of several descriptions of men, as cab-men, coach-men, watch-men, and dust-men. The same may likewise be asserted of some women, such as apple-women, oyster-women, fish-women, and match-women. Here also the singing of charity children of both sexes, and the voices of parish-clerks, may be specified, and, lastly, of many foreigners whose names terminate in ini.