OBS. 8.—­The second exception above, wherever it is found applicable, cancels the first; because it introduces an antecedent term before the preposition to, as may be seen by the examples given.  It is questionable too, whether both of them may not also be cancelled in an other way; that is, by transposition and the introduction of the pronoun it for the nominative:  as, “It is a great affliction, TO be reduced to poverty.”—­“It is hard FOR man to tell how human life began.”—­“Nevertheless it is more needful for you, THAT I should abide in the flesh.”  We cannot so well say, “It is more needful for you, FOR me to abide in the flesh;” but we may say, “It is, on your account, more needful FOR me to abide in the flesh.”  If these, and other similar examples, are not to be accounted additional instances in which to and for, and also the conjunction that, are without any proper antecedent terms, we must suppose these particles to show the relation between what precedes and what follows them.

OBS. 9.—­The preposition (as its name implies) precedes the word which it governs.  Yet there are some exceptions.  In the familiar style, a preposition governing a relative or an interrogative pronoun, is often separated from its object, and connected with the other term of relation; as, “Whom did he speak to?” But it is more dignified, and in general more graceful, to place the preposition before the pronoun; as, “To whom did he speak?” The relatives that and as, if governed by a preposition, must always precede it.  In some instances, the pronoun must be supplied in parsing; as, “To set off the banquet [that or which] he gives notice of.”—­Philological Museum, i, 454.  Sometimes the objective word is put first because it is emphatical; as, “This the great understand, this they pique themselves upon.”—­Art of Thinking, p. 66.  Prepositions of more than one syllable, are sometimes put immediately after their objects, especially in poetry; as, “Known all the world over.”—­Walker’s Particles p. 291.  “The thing is known all Lesbos over.”—­Ibid.

   “Wild Carron’s lonely woods among.”—­Langhorne.

    “Thy deep ravines and dells along.”—­Sir W. Scott.

OBS. 10.—­Two prepositions sometimes come together; as, “Lambeth is over against Westminster abbey.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, 118.  “And from before the lustre of her face, White break the clouds away.”—­Thomson.  “And the meagre fiend Blows mildew from between his shrivell’d lips.”—­Cowper.  These, in most instances, though they are not usually written as compounds, appear naturally to coalesce in their syntax, as was observed in the tenth chapter of Etymology, and to express a sort of compound relation