between the other terms with which they are connected.  When such is their character, they ought to be taken together in parsing; for, if we parse them separately, we must either call the first an adverb, or suppose some very awkward ellipsis.  Some instances however occur, in which an object may easily be supplied to the former word, and perhaps ought to be; as, “He is at liberty to sell it at [a price] above a fair remuneration.”—­ Wayland’s Moral Science, p. 258.  “And I wish they had been at the bottom of the ditch I pulled you out of, instead of [being] upon my back.”—­Sandford and Merton, p. 29.  In such examples as the following, the first preposition, of, appears to me to govern the plural noun which ends the sentence; and the intermediate ones, from and to, to have both terms of their relation understood:  “Iambic verse consists of from two to six feet; that is, of from four to twelve syllables.”—­Blair’s Gram., p. 119.  “Trochaic verse consists of from one to three feet.”—­Ibid. The meaning is—­“Iambic verse consists of feet varying in number from two to six; or (it consists) of syllables varying from four to twelve.”—­“Trochaic verse consists of feet varying from one foot to three feet.”

OBS. 11.—­One antecedent term may have several prepositions depending on it, with one object after each, or more than one after any, or only one after both or all; as, “A declaration for virtue and against vice.”—­Butler’s Anal., p. 157.  “A positive law against all fraud, falsehood, and violence, and for, or in favour of, all justice and truth.”  “For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things.”—­Bible.  In fact, not only may the relation be simple in regard to all or any of the words, but it may also be complex in regard to all or any of them.  Hence several different prepositions, whether they have different antecedent terms or only one and the same, may refer either jointly or severally to one object or to more.  This follows, because not only may either antecedents or objects be connected by conjunctions, but prepositions also admit of this construction, with or without a connecting of their antecedents.  Examples:  “They are capable of, and placed in, different stations in the society of mankind.”—­Butler’s Anal., p. 115.  “Our perception of vice and ill desert arises from, and is the result of, a comparison of actions with the nature and capacities of the agent.”—­Ib., p. 279.  “And the design of this chapter is, to inquire how far this is the case; how far, over and above the moral nature which God has given us, and our natural notion of him, as righteous governor of those his creatures to whom he has given this nature; I say, how far, besides this, the principles and beginnings of a moral government over the world may be discerned, notwithstanding and amidst all the confusion and disorder of it.”—­Ib., p. 85.