discovers a base mind.

_Note_ 1. He has gone home, but may return.

The attorney executed the deed, but will write no more.

_Note_ 2. I shall walk to-day, unless it rains.

If he acquires riches, they will corrupt his mind.

RULE XXXV.

A noun or pronoun following the conjunction _than_, _as_, or _but_, is
nominative to a verb, or governed by a verb or preposition, expressed or
understood; as, "Thou art wiser _than_ I [_am_."] "I saw nobody _but_
[_I saw_] him."

NOTE 1. The conjunction _as_, when it is connected with _such_,
_many_, or _same_, is sometimes, though erroneously, called a
_relative pronoun_; as, "Let _such_ as presume to advise others,"
&c.; that is, Let _them who_, &c. See page 116.

2. An ellipsis, or omission of some words, is frequently admitted,
which must be supplied in the mind in order to parse grammatically;
as "Wo is me;" that is, _to_ me; "To sleep all night;" i.e.
_through_ all _the_ night; "He has gone a journey;" i.e. _on_ a
journey; "They walked a league;" i.e. _over a space called_ a
league.

3. When the omission of words would obscure the sense, or weaken its
force, they must be expressed.

4. In the use of prepositions, and words that relate to each other,
we should pay particular regard to the meaning of the words or
sentences which they connect: all the parts of a sentence should
correspond to each other, and a regular and clear construction
throughout should be carefully preserved.

FALSE SYNTAX.

They are much greater gainers than me.

They know how to write as well as him; but he is a better grammarian
than them.

They were all well but him.

None were rewarded but him and me.

Jesus sought none but they who had gone astray.

REMARKS ON THE TENSES.

1. In the use of verbs, and other words and phrases which, _in point of
time_, relate to each other, a due regard to that relation should be
observed.

Instead of saying, "The Lord _hath given_, and the Lord _hath taken_
away;" we should say, "The Lord _gave_, and the Lord _hath taken_ away."
Instead of, "I _remember_ the family more than twenty years;" it should
be, "I _have remembered_ the family more than twenty years."

2. The best rule that can be given for the management of the tenses, and
of words and phrases which, in point of time, relate to each other, is
this very general one; _Observe what