UNDER CRITICAL NOTE XIII.—­OF AWKWARDNESS.

“They slew Varus, who was he that I mentioned before.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 194.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the phrase, “who was he that,” is here prolix and awkward.  But, according to Critical Note 13th, “Awkwardness, or inelegance of expression, is a reprehensible defect in style, whether it violate any of the common rules of syntax or not.”  This example may be improved thus:  “They slew Varus, whom I mentioned before.”]

“Maria rejected Valerius, who was he that she had rejected before.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 174.  “The English in its substantives has but two different terminations for cases.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 18.  “Socrates and Plato were wise; they were the most eminent philosophers of Greece.”—­Ib., p. 175; Murray’s Gram., 149; et al. “Whether one person or more than one, were concerned in the business, does not yet appear.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 184.  “And that, consequently, the verb and pronoun agreeing with it, cannot with propriety, be ever used in the plural number.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 153; Ingersoll’s, 249; et al. “A second help may be the conversing frequently and freely with those of your own sex who are like minded.”—­John Wesley.  “Four of the semi-vowels, namely, l, m, n, r, are also distinguished by the name of liquids, from their readily uniting with other consonants, and flowing as it were into their sounds.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 8; Churchill’s, 5; Alger’s, 11; et al. “Some conjunctions have their correspondent conjunctions belonging to them:  so that, in the subsequent member of the sentence the latter answers to the former.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 109:  Adam’s, 209; Gould’s, 205; L.  Murray’s, 211; Ingersoll’s, 268; Fisk’s, 137; Churchill’s, 153; Fowler’s, 562; et al. “The mutes are those consonants, whose sounds cannot be protracted.  The semi-vowels, such whose sounds can be continued at pleasure, partaking of the nature of vowels, from which they derive their name.”—­Murray’s Gram., p 9; et al. “The pronoun of the third person, of the masculine and feminine gender, is sometimes used as a noun, and regularly declined:  as, ’The hes in birds.’  BACON.  ‘The shes of Italy.’  SHAK.”—­Churchill’s Gram., p. 73.  “The following examples also of separation of a preposition from the word which it governs, is improper in common writings.”—­C.  Adams’s Gram., p. 103.  “The word whose begins likewise to be restricted to persons, but it is not done so generally but that good writers, and even in prose, use it when speaking of things.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 99; L.  Murray’s, 157;