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I have a mind [which] presages me such thrift
That I should questionless be fortunate.-Shakespeare.

It is not growing like a tree

In bulk [that] doth make men better be.-Ben Jonson.

In this 'tis God [that] directs, in that 'tis man.-Pope.

275. But it may be said that now only slovenly writers omit a Relative in the Nominative Case.

276. Furthermore, the Relative should always be expressed when its omission would also involve the omission of a Preposition; as

In the circumstances [in which] he now found himself there seemed no room for hope.

Exercise 106.

Supply the omitted Relatives.

Thy honourable metal may be wrought

aut pro From that it is disposed.

And, that is worse, the Lords of Ross are fled.

In war was never lion raged more fierce.

What wreck discern you in me

Deserves your pity?

You are one of those

Would have him wed again.

And they are envious term thee parasite.

Off with his head,

And rear it in the place your father's stands.

Declare the cause

My father, Earl of Cambridge, lost his head.

And being frank she leads thee to these are free.
To me you cannot reach you play the spaniel.

What should I do I do not?

He has a genius would prompt him to better things.

On the plan Mr. Burke was writing he might have written on.

In the situation England now is it is impossible she can increase in

money.

Be that thou know'st thou art, and then thou art

As great as that thou fear'st,

But all I hear

Is the north-wind drear,

And all I see are the waves.

'Tis not the trial of a woman's war,

The bitter clamour of two eager tongues,
Can arbitrate between us.

Our nearness to the king in love

Is near the hate of those love not the king.

There lies

Two kinsmen digged their graves with weeping eyes.

I have no name, no title,

No, not that name was given me at the font.

I'll lay

A plot shall show us all a merry day.

Have I no friend will rid me of this living fear?

I have words to speak in thine ear will make thee dumb.

We'll put on those shall praise your excellence.

Provided . . . that he do record a gift,
Here in this court, of all he dies possessed
Unto his son Lorenzo and his daughter.

Pronoun before Noun.

277. A Pronoun is sometimes placed before the Noun for which it stands; as

Slinging their bows behind them, his archers betook themselves to the axes with which they had been provided.

278. When the Noun follows closely after the Pronoun there is not much objection to this inversion of the natural order, but ambiguity may result from it; as

In order that they [who?] might not be hampered he told his men to kill their prisoners.

279. Generally speaking, there is nothing to be gained by putting the Pronoun before the Noun.

Exercise 107.

Place the Nouns and Pronouns in the natural order.

Though she dwelt in a distant part of the kingdom, the horrors of war had been brought home to Joan.

One day when she was alone, tending her father's flock, Joan thought she heard...

As soon as they had finished their repast the young people rose from the table to close the festivities of the day with dancing.

After she came of age the Aztec maiden was treated by her parents with great tenderness.

Verona still boasts her amphitheatre and his native Vicenza is adorned by the classic architecture of Palladio.

This change, though mainly owing to their own violence, excited no small indignation in the minds of the reformers.

At one time, seeing his forces wavering, the Earl of Warwick dismounted, stabbed his horse in their presence and swore to live or die with them.

After he had been reigning some time a coolness sprang up between Edward and Warwick.

Soon after his master's death in 1441 Caxton went abroad.

After his father's death one of the Paston correspondents wrote to him several times before he heard that he was dead.

Writing to her husband, who was lying ill in the capital, Mrs. Margaret Paston says

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As he was getting off his horse Sir Humphrey was struck on the head with an edged tool.'

Writing to her cousin John Paston about a husband who was proposed for his sister, Elizabeth Clare says ...

VERBS.

Read again Pars. 66-74, and work again Ex. 44-50.

Agreement.

Exercise 108.

Correct the following sentences:

Neither the artist nor the biographer seem to have any clear conception

of the boundaries which separate impudence from wit.

Ne'er man a more industrious spouse possessed,
Ne'er children in a mother was more blessed.

Everyone of these letters are in my name.

The continual succession of the small craft, like the frequent repetition of all things which have nothing in them great, beautiful, or admirable, tire the eye and give us distaste and aversion instead of pleasure.

The orders for the second tack was given and obeyed with much more alacrity than those had been for the first. [The orders were not given with more alacrity.]

Neither of these gentlemen are kindly disposed to this country.

Does the misery, crime, and insanity produced by excessive drinking grow less?

His voice and manner was studiously calm.

Neither Henrietta nor Louisa nor Charles Hayter nor Captain Wentworth were there.

An entirely fresh selection of representative extracts have been made. His spirit and method was divine.

Neither Swinburne nor the bard of the sunflower and the lily have yet reached such a point.

That is not surprising when the number of locomotives are considered. Mr. J. M. asked whether the wife of Mr. A., accompanied by Mr. B., on visiting Tullamore prison on Monday, April 1, were not allowed to see Mr. A. The conduct of the firemen deserve all praise.

Neither were conscious of the nature of that sentiment.

The lack of beauty, fashion, and elegance disappoint the stranger.
Neither Beauty nor her mistress were to be taken in.

Neither of the preceptresses were better skilled.

We cannot say that the extent of his duties at all surprise us.

It is not the remembrance of its brightest days that are now a solace to my heart.

The works of Flavius Josephus, to which is added three dissertations. He did not know where I or the girl were.

A selection of spring dresses are to hand.

A profusion of white waistcoats were to be observed among the male members of the choir.

The resemblance in the cases are so remarkable as to give grounds... The learned judge said that neither of the parties were entitled to much sympathy.

We have wiped away the drops which sacred pity have engendered. A comparison of the materials which Defoe worked up into the 'Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe' clearly prove that . . .

There everybody who is anybody, down to the very schoolboys, wear a uniform.

Jones with a number of other men were engaged.

In this quiet burial-ground lie many a gallant officer.

The use of terms generally received and employed by accredited writers on the subject of agriculture are to be recommended.

But the temper as well as knowledge of a modern historian require a more sober and accurate language.

Magnus with four thousand of his supposed accomplices were put to death.

Confiscation, exile, or simple death were esteemed uncommon instances of his lenity.

Everyone of the words which we have quoted were wrong. Neither of them are used now.

When a man or woman find that a knot is tied . . .

Nothing but the sincerity of the speakers save their meetings from ridicule.

A very useful lesson has been taught to those who imagine that the clearance of week-day traffic from the streets leave the latter at their disposal for a game of pandemonium. [Vulgarity is only one of the many faults of this sentence.]

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A virtuous and good Turk or heathen are more acceptable.

Whatever mortal men perfection name

Thou in an infinite degree does claim.

That night everyone of the boat's crew save Amyas were down with raging fever.

Every line of his poems and songs were like thumps on his own anvil. In this composition neither of the arms cross the body.

280. A Relative Pronoun agrees with its Antecedent in Number and Person. A Verb agrees with its Subject in Number and Person. When, therefore, the Subject is a Relative Pronoun, the Verb agrees with the Antecedent in Number and Person; as Sing. No. 1st Pers. I

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