UNDER NOTE III.—OMISSION OF PREPOSITIONS.
“This would have been less worthy of notice.”—Churchill cor. “But I passed it, as a thing unworthy of my notice.”—Werter cor. “Which, in compliment to me, perhaps you may one day think worthy of your attention.”—Bucke cor. “To think this small present worthy of an introduction to the young ladies of your very elegant establishment.”— Id. “There are but a few miles of portage.”—Jefferson cor. “It is worthy of notice, that our mountains are not solitary.”—Id. “It is about one hundred feet in diameter.” [546]—Id. “Entering a hill a quarter or half of a mile.”—Id. “And herself seems passing to an awful dissolution, whose issue it is not given to human foresight to scan.”—Id. “It was of a spheroidical form, about forty feet in diameter at the base, and had been about twelve feet in altitude.”—Id. “Before this, it was covered with trees of twelve inches in diameter; and, round the base, there was an excavation of five feet in depth and five in width.”—Id. “Then thou mayst eat grapes to thy fill, at thine own pleasure.”—Bible cor. “Then he brought me back by the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary.”—Id. “They will bless God, that he has peopled one half of the world with a race of freemen.”—Webster cor. “Of what use can these words be, till their meaning is known?”—Town cor. “The tents of the Arabs now are black, or of a very dark colour.”—The Friend cor. “They may not be unworthy of the attention of young men.”—Kirkham cor. “The pronoun THAT is frequently applied to persons as well as to things.”—Merchant cor. “And ‘who’ is in the same case that ‘man’ is in.”—Sanborn cor. “He saw a flaming stone, apparently about four feet in diameter.”—The Friend cor. “Pliny informs us, that this