rms_
are those which their fathers left them."--_Ib._, p. 257. Here the noun
_farms_ is understood after _Seth's_, and again after _Richard's_; so that
the sentence is written wrong, unless each man has more than one farm.
"_Was_ not Demosthenes's style, and his master Plato's, perfectly Attic;
and yet none more lofty?"--_Milnes's Greek Gram._, p. 241. Here _style_ is
understood after _Plato's_; wherefore _was_ should rather be _were_, or
else _and_ should be changed to _as well as_. But the text, as it stands,
is not much unlike some of the exceptions noticed above. "The character of
a fop, and of a rough warrior, _are_ no where more successfully
contrasted."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, Vol. i, p. 236. Here the ellipsis is
not very proper. Say, "the character of a fop, and _that_ of a rough
warrior," &c. Again: "We may observe, that the eloquence of the bar, of the
legislature, and of public assemblies, _are_ seldom _or ever_ found united
_to high perfection in_ the same person."--_J. Q. Adams's Rhet._, Vol. i,
p. 256. Here the ellipsis cannot so well be avoided by means of the
pronominal adjective _that_, and therefore it may be thought more
excusable; but I should prefer a repetition of the nominative: as, "We may
observe, that the eloquence of the bar, _the eloquence_ of the legislature,
and _the eloquence_ of public assemblies, are seldom _if ever_ found
united, _in any high degree_, in the same person."
OBS. 11.--The conjunction _as_, when it connects nominatives that are in
_apposition_, or significant of the same person or thing, is commonly
placed at the beginning of a sentence, so that the verb agrees with its
proper nominative following the explanatory word: thus, "_As a poet, he
holds_ a high rank."--_Murray's Sequel_, p. 355. "_As a poet, Addison
claims_ a high praise."--_Ib._, p. 304. "_As a model_ of English prose, his
_writings merit_ the greatest praise."--_Ib._, p. 305. But when this
conjunction denotes a _comparison_ between different persons or things
signified by two nominatives, there must be two verbs expressed or
understood, each agreeing with its own subject; as, "Such _writers_ as _he
[is,] have_ no reputation worth any man's envy." [396]
"Such _men_ as _he [is] be_ never at heart's ease
Whiles they behold a greater than themselves."--_Shakspeare_.
OBS. 12.--When two nominatives are connected by _as well as, but_, or
_save_, they must in fact have two verbs, though in most instances only
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