e, and life's own secret joy."--_Coleridge_.
UNDER NOTE VIII.--EXPRESS THE NOMINATIVE.
"Who is here so base, that would be a bondman?"--_Beauties of Shakspeare_,
p. 249. "Who is here so rude, that would not be a Roman?"--_Ib._ "There is
not a sparrow falls to the ground without his notice."--_Murray's Gram._,
p. 300. "In order to adjust them so, as shall consist equally with the
perspicuity and the strength of the period."--_Ib._, p. 324; _Blair's
Rhet._, 118. "But, sometimes, there is a verb comest in."--_Cobbett's
English Gram._, 248. "Mr. Prince has a genius would prompt him to better
things."--_Spectator_, No. 466. "It is this removes that impenetrable
mist."--_Harris's Hermes_, p. 362. "By the praise is given him for his
courage."--_Locke, on Education_, p. 214. "There is no man would be more
welcome here."--_Steele, Spect._, No. 544. "Between an antecedent and a
consequent, or what goes before, and immediately follows."--_Blair's
Rhet._, p. 141. "And as connected with what goes before and follows."--
_Ib._, p. 354. "There is no man doth a wrong for the wrong's sake."--_Lord
Bacon_. "All the various miseries of life, which people bring upon
themselves by negligence and folly, and might have been avoided by proper
care, are instances of this."--_Butler's Analogy_, p. 108. "Ancient
philosophers have taught many things in favour of morality, so far at least
as respect justice and goodness towards our fellow-creatures."--_Gospel its
own Witness_, p. 56. "Indeed, if there be any such, have been, or appear to
be of us, as suppose, there is not a wise man among us all, nor an honest
man, that is able to judge betwixt his brethren; we shall not covet to
meddle in their matter."--_Barclay's Works_, i, 504. "There were that drew
back; there were that made shipwreck of faith: yea, there were that brought
in damnable heresies."--_Ib._, i, 466. "The nature of the cause rendered
this plan altogether proper, and in similar situations is fit to be
imitated."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 274. "This is an idiom to which our
language is strongly inclined, and was formerly very prevalent."--
_Churchill's Gram._, p. 150. "His roots are wrapped about the heap, and
seeth the place of stones."--_Job_, viii, 17.
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