“A free Constitution, when it has been shook by the iniquity of former administrations.” Lord Bolingbroke, Patriot King, p. 111.⸺“Too strong to be shook by his enemies.” Atterbury. “But there was now an accident fell out.”⸺Clarendon, Contin. p. 292.
⸺“Ev’n there he should have fell.”
Prior, Solomon.
“Sure some disaster has befell:
Speak, Nurse; I hope the Boy is well.”
Gay, Fables.
[40] “Was the easilier persuaded.”—Raleigh. “The things highliest important to the growing age.” Lord Shaftesbury, Letter to Lord Molesworth. Improperly, for more easily, most highly.
[41] The Conjunction because used to express the motive or end, is either improper or obsolete: as, “The multitude rebuked them, because they should hold their peace.” Matt. xx. 31. “It is the case of some, to contrive false periods of business, because they may seem men of dispatch.” Bacon, Essay xxv. We should now make use of that.
[42] “He caused all persons, whom he knew had, or he thought might have, spoken to him, to be apprehended.” Clarendon, Vol. III. p. 618. 8ᵛᵒ. It ought to be who, the Nominative Case to had; not whom, as if it were the Objective Case governed by knew.
“Scotland and Thee did each in other live.”