“The spacious firmament on
high,
With all the blue ethereal sky,
And spangled heav’ns, a shining frame,
Their great Original proclaim.”
—ADDISON. Murray’s Key,
p. 174; Day’s Gram., p. 92;
Farnum’s, 106.
UNDER NOTE VI.—ELLIPTICAL CONSTRUCTIONS.
“There is a reputable and a disreputable practice.”—Adams’s Rhet., Vol. i, p. 350. “This and this man was born in her.”—Milton’s Psalms, lxxxvii. “This and that man was born in her.”—Psal. lxxxvii, 5. “This and that man was born there.”—Hendrick’s Gram., p. 94. “Thus le in l~ego and l~egi seem to be sounded equally long.”—Adam’s Gram., p. 253; Gould’s, 243. “A distinct and an accurate articulation forms the groundwork of good delivery.”—Kirkham’s Elocution, p. 25. “How is vocal and written language understood?”—C. W. Sanders, Spelling-Book, p. 7. “The good, the wise, and the learned man is an ornament to human society.”—Bartlett’s Reader. “On some points, the expression of song and speech is identical.”—Rush, on the Voice, p. 425. “To every room there was an open and secret passage.”—Johnson’s Rasselas, p. 13. “There iz such a thing az tru and false taste, and the latter az often directs fashion, az the former.”—Webster’s Essays, p. 401. “There is such a thing as a prudent and imprudent institution of life, with regard to our health and our affairs”—Butler’s Analogy, p. 210. “The lot of the outcasts of Israel and the dispersed of Judah, however different in one respect, have in another corresponded with wonderful exactness.”—Hope of Israel, p. 301. “On these final syllables the radical and vanishing movement is performed.”—Rush, on the Voice, p. 64. “To be young or old, good, just, or the contrary, are physical or moral events.”—SPURZHEIM: Felch’s Comp. Gram., p. 29. “The eloquence of George Whitfield and of John Wesley was of a very different character each from the other.”—Dr. Sharp. “The affinity of m for the series b, and of n for the series t, give occasion for other Euphonic changes.”—Fowler’s E. Gram., Sec.77.