ye,” &c.  If a point be here set between the two pronouns, the speaker accuses all his hearers of loving iniquity; if this point be removed, he addresses only such as do love it.  But an interjection and a pronoun, each put absolute singly, one after the other, seem to me not to constitute a very natural exclamation.  The last example above should therefore be, “Ah! you hate the light.”  The first should be written, “O happy we!”

OBS. 14.—­In other grammars, too, there are many instances of some of the errors here pointed out.  R. C. Smith knows no difference between O and oh; takes “Oh! happy us” to be accurate English; sees no impropriety in separating interjections from the pronouns which he supposes them to “govern;” writes the same examples variously, even on the same page; inserts or omits commas or exclamation points at random; yet makes the latter the means by which interjections are to be known!  See his New Gram., pp. 40, 96 and 134.  Kirkham, who lays claim to “a new system of punctuation,” and also stoutly asserts the governing power of interjections, writes, and rewrites, and finally stereotypes, in one part of his book.  “Ah me! Oh thou!  O my country!” and in an other, “Ah! me; Oh! thou; O! virtue.”  See Obs. 3d and Obs. 8th above.  From such hands, any thing “new” should be received with caution:  this last specimen of his scholarship has more errors than words.

OBS. 15.—­Some few of our interjections seem to admit of a connexion with other words by means of a preposition or the conjunction that as, “O to forget her!”—­Young.  “O for that warning voice!”—­Milton.  “O that they were wise!”—­Deut., xxxii, 29.  “O that my people had hearkened unto me!”—­Ps., lxxxi, 13, “Alas for Sicily!”—­Cowper.  “O for a world in principle as chaste As this is gross and selfish!”—­Id. “Hurrah for Jackson!”—­Newspaper.  “A bawd, sir, fy upon him!”—­SHAK.:  Joh.  Dict. “And fy on fortune, mine avowed foe!”—­SPENCER:  ib. This connexion, however, even if we parse all the words just as they stand, does not give to the interjection itself any dependent construction.  It appears indeed to refute Jamieson’s assertion, that, “The interjection is totally unconnected with every other word in a sentence;” but I did not quote this passage, with any averment of its accuracy; and, certainly, many nouns which are put absolute themselves, have in like manner a connexion with words that are not put absolute:  as, “O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob.  Selah.”—­Ps., lxxxiv, 8.  But if any will suppose, that in the foregoing examples something else than the interjection must be the antecedent term to the preposition or the conjunction, they may consider the expressions elliptical:  though it must be confessed, that much of their vivacity