doubtful whether they are not now nominatives, rather than objectives.  The infinitive, as used above, is a mere substitute for the Latin future participle; and any English noun or pronoun put absolute with a participle, is in the nominative case.  English relatives are rarely, if ever, put absolute in this manner:  and this may be the reason why the construction of which, in the sentence above, seems awkward.  Besides, it is certain that the other pronouns are sometimes put absolute with the infinitive; and that, in the nominative case, not the objective:  as,

   “And I to be a corporal in his field,
    And wear his colours like a tumbler’s hoop! 
    What? I!  I love!  I sue!  I seek a wife!”—­Shak., Love’s Labour Lost.

IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION.

FALSE SYNTAX UNDER RULE II.

THE SUBJECT OF A FINITE VERB.

“The whole need not a physician, but them that are sick.”—­Bunyan’s Law and Gr., p. iv.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the objective pronoun them is here made the subject of the verb need, understood.  But, according to Rule 2d, “A noun or a pronoun which is the subject of a finite verb, must be in the nominative case.”  Therefore, them should be they; thus, “The whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.”]

“He will in no wise cast out whomsoever cometh unto him.”—­Robert Hall “He feared the enemy might fall upon his men, whom he saw were off their guard.”—­Hutchinson’s Massachusetts, ii, 133.  “Whomsoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.”—­Dymond’s Essays, p. 48.  “The idea’s of the author have been conversant with the faults of other writers.”—­Swift’s T. T., p. 55.  “You are a much greater loser than me by his death.”—­Swift to Pope, l. 63.  “Such peccadillo’s pass with him for pious frauds.”—­Barclay’s Works, Vol. iii, p. 279.  “In whom I am nearly concerned, and whom I know would be very apt to justify my whole procedure.”—­Ib., i, 560.  “Do not think such a man as me contemptible for my garb.”—­Addison. “His wealth and him bid adieu to each other.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 107.  “So that, ‘He is greater than me,’ will be more grammatical than, ‘He is greater than I.’”—­Ib., p. 106.  “The Jesuits had more interests at court than him.”—­SMOLLETT:  in Pr.  Gram., p. 106.[343] “Tell the Cardinal that I understand poetry better than him.”—­Id., ib. “An inhabitant of Crim Tartary was far more happy than him.”—­Id., ib. “My father and him have been very intimate since.”—­Fair American, ii, 53.  “Who was the agent, and whom the object struck or kissed?”—­Infant School Gram., p. 32.  “To find the person whom he imagined was concealed there.”—­Kirkham’s Elocution, p. 225.  “He offered a great recompense to whomsoever would help him.”—­HUME: