really proper, conjunctions should not be unnecessarily accumulated:  as, “But AND if that evil servant say in his heart,” &c.—­Matt., xxiv, 48.  Greek, “[Greek:  Ean de eipae o kakos donlos ekeinos,]” &c.  Here is no and. “But AND if she depart.”—­1 Cor., vii, 11.  This is almost a literal rendering of the Greek, “[Greek:  Ean de kai choristhae.]”—­yet either but or and is certainly useless.  “In several cases,” says Priestley, “we content ourselves, now, with fewer conjunctive particles than our ancestors did [say used].  Example:  ’So AS that his doctrines were embraced by great numbers.’ Universal Hist., Vol. 29, p. 501. So that would have been much easier, and better.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 139.  Some of the poets have often used the word that as an expletive, to fill the measure of their verse; as,

   “When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept.”—­Shakspeare.

    “If that he be a dog, beware his fangs.”—­Id.

    “That made him pine away and moulder,
    As though that he had been no soldier.”—­Butler’s Poems, p. 164.

OBS. 6.—­W.  Allen remarks, that, “And is sometimes introduced to engage our attention to a following word or phrase; as, ’Part pays, and justly, the deserving steer.’ [Pope.] ‘I see thee fall, and by Achilles’ hand.’ [Id.]”—­Allen’s E. Gram., p. 184.  The like idiom, he says, occurs in these passages of Latin:  “‘Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.’ Virg.  ‘Mors et fugacem persequitur virum.’ Hor.”—­Allen’s Gram., p. 184.  But it seems to me, that and and et are here regular connectives.  The former implies a repetition of the preceding verb:  as, “Part pays, and justly pays, the deserving steer.”—­“I see thee fall, and fall by Achilles’ hand.”  The latter refers back to what was said before:  thus, “Perhaps it will also hereafter delight you to recount these evils.”—­“And death pursues the man that flees.”  In the following text, the conjunction is more like an expletive; but even here it suggests an extension of the discourse then in progress:  “Lord, and what shall this man do?”—­John, xxi, 21. “[Greek:  Kurie, outos de ti;]”—­“Domine, hic autem quid?”—­Beza.

OBS. 7.—­The conjunction as often unites words that are in apposition, or in the same case; as, “He offered himself AS a journeyman.”—­“I assume it AS a fact.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 94.  “In an other example of the same kind, the earth, AS a common mother, is animated to give refuge against a father’s unkindness.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., Vol ii, p. 168.  “And then to offer himself up AS a sacrifice and propitiation for