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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