has made himself one of those by whom Murray’s erroneous remark on O, oh, and ah, with pronouns of the first and second persons, is not only stretched into a rule for all interjections, but made to include nouns of the second person, and both nouns and pronouns of the third person:  as, “Interjections require the objective case of a pronoun of the first person after them, but the nominative of a noun or pronoun of the second or third person; as, ’Ah! me; Oh! thou; O! virtue!’”—­Kirkham’s Gram., 2d Ed., p. 134; Stereotype Ed., p. 177.  See the same rule, with examples and punctuation different, in his Stereotype Edition, p. 164; Comly’s Gram., 116; Greenleaf’s, 36; and Fisk’s, 144.  All these authors, except Comly, who comes much nearest to the thing, profess to present to us “Murray’s Grammar Simplified;” and this is a sample of their work of simplification!—­an ignorant piling of errors on errors!

   “O imitatores servum pecus! ut mihi saepe
    Bilem, saepe jocum vestri movere tumultus!”—­Horace.

OBS. 9.—­Since so many of our grammarians conceive that interjections require or govern cases, it may be proper to cite some who teach otherwise.  “Interjections, in English, have no government.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 111.  “Interjections have no government, or admit of no construction.”—­Coar’s Gram., p. 189.  “Interjections have no connexion with other word’s.”—­Fuller’s Gram., p. 71.  “The interjection, in a grammatical sense, is totally unconnected with every other word in a sentence.  Its arrangement, of course, is altogether arbitrary, and cannot admit of any theory.”—­Jamieson’s Rhet., p. 83.  “Interjections cannot properly have either concord or government.  They are only mere sounds excited by passion, and have no just connexion with any other part of a sentence.  Whatever case, therefore, is joined with them, must depend on some other word understood, except the vocative, which is always placed absolutely.”—­Adam’s Latin Gram., p. 196; Gould’s, 193.  If this is true of the Latin language, a slight variation will make it as true of ours.  “Interjections, and phrases resembling them, are taken absolutely; as, Oh, world, thy slippery turns!  But the phrases Oh me! and Ah me! frequently occur.”—­W.  Allen’s Gram., p. 188.  This passage is, in several respects, wrong; yet the leading idea is true.  The author entitles it, “SYNTAX OF INTERJECTIONS,” yet absurdly includes in it I know not what phrases!  In the phrase, “thy slippery turns!” no word is absolute, or “taken absolutely” but this noun “turns;” and this, without the least hint of its case, the learned author will have us to understand to be absolute, because the phrase resembles an interjection! But the noun “world” which is also absolute, and which still more resembles an interjection,