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o of one of the most famous romances which ever _was_ published in this country.--_Id._ It is one of the errors which _has_ been diligently propagated by designing writers.--IRVING. "I am going to breakfast with one of these fellows who _is_ at the Piazza Hotel."--DICKENS. The "Economy of the Animal Kingdom" is one of those books which _is_ an honor to the human race.--EMERSON. Tom Puzzle is one of the most eminent immethodical disputants of any that _has_ fallen under my observation.--ADDISON. The richly canopied monument of one of the most earnest souls that ever gave _itself_ to the arts.--RUSKIN. III. OMISSION OF THE RELATIVE. 416. Although the omission of the relative is common when it would be the object of the verb or preposition _expressed_, there is an omission which is not frequently found in careful writers; that is, when the relative word is a pronoun, object of a preposition _understood_, or is equivalent to the conjunction _when_, _where_, _whence_, and such like: as, "He returned by the same route [by which] he came;" "India is the place [in which, or where] he died." Notice these sentences:-- In the posture I lay, I could see nothing except the sky.--SWIFT. This is he that should marshal us the way we were going.--EMERSON. But I by backward steps would move; And, when this dust falls to the urn, In that same state I came, return.--VAUGHAN. Welcome the hour my aged limbs Are laid with thee to rest.--BURNS. The night was concluded in the manner we began the morning.--GOLDSMITH. The same day I went aboard we set sail.--DEFOE. The vulgar historian of a Cromwell fancies that he had determined on being Protector of England, at the time he was plowing the marsh lands of Cambridgeshire.--CARLYLE. To pass under the canvas in the manner he had entered required time and attention.--SCOTT. Exercise.--In the above sentences, insert the omitted conjunction or phrase, and see if the sentence is made clearer. IV. THE RELATIVE _AS_ AFTER _SAME_. 417. It is very rarely that we find such sentences as,-- He considered...me as his apprentice, and accordingly expected the same service from me _as_ he would from another.--FRANKLIN. This has the same effect in natural faults _as_ maiming and mutilation produce from accide
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