in
Pr. Gram., p. 104. “They
would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited,
of whomsoever might exercise the right of judgement.”—
Gov.
Haynes’s Speech, in 1832. “They
had promised to accept whomsoever should be born in
Wales.”—
Stories by Croker.
“We sorrow not as them that have no hope.”—
Maturin’s
Sermons, p. 27. “If he suffers, he suffers
as them that have no hope.”—
Ib.,
p. 32. “We acknowledge that he, and him
only, hath been our peacemaker.”—
Gratton.
“And what can be better than him that made it?”—
Jenks’s
Prayers, p. 329. “None of his school-fellows
is more beloved than him.”—
Cooper’s
Gram., p. 42. “Solomon, who was wiser
than them all.”—
Watson’s
Apology, p. 76. “Those whom the Jews
thought were the last to be saved, first entered the
kingdom of God.”—
Eleventh Hour,
Tract, No. 4. “A stone is heavy, and
the sand weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier
than them both.”—
Prov., xxvii,
3. “A man of business, in good company,
is hardly more insupportable than her they call a notable
woman.”—
Steele, Sped.
“The king of the Sarmatians, whom we may imagine
was no small prince, restored him a hundred thousand
Roman prisoners.”—
Life of Antoninus,
p. 83. “Such notions would be avowed at
this time by none but rosicrucians, and fanatics as
mad as them.”—
Bolingbroke’s
Ph. Tr., p. 24. “Unless, as I said,
Messieurs, you are the masters, and not me.”—BASIL
HALL:
Harrison’s E. Lang., p. 173.
“We had drawn up against peaceable travellers,
who must have been as glad as us to escape.”—BURNES’S
TRAVELS:
ibid. “Stimulated, in turn,
by their approbation, and that of better judges than
them, she turned to their literature with redoubled
energy.”—QUARTERLY REVIEW:
Life
of H. More: ibid. “I know not whom
else are expected.”—SCOTT’S
PIRATE:
ibid. “He is great, but
truth is greater than us all.”—
Horace
Mann, in Congress, 1850. “Him I accuse
has entered.”—
Fowler’s E.
Gram., Sec.482: see
Shakspeare’s
Coriolanus, Act V, sc. 5.
“Scotland and thee did each
in other live.”
—Dryden’s
Po., Vol. ii, p. 220.
“We are alone; here’s
none but thee and I.”
—Shak.,
2 Hen. VI.
“Me rather had, my heart
might feel your love,
Than my unpleas’d eye
see your courtesy.”
—Idem:
Joh. Dict.
“Tell me, in sadness,
whom is she you love?”
—Id.,
Romeo and Juliet, A. I, sc. 1.
“Better leave undone,
than by our deeds acquire
Too high a fame, when him
we serve’s away.”
—Shak.,
Ant. and Cleop.
RULE III.—APPOSITION.
A Noun or a personal Pronoun used to explain a preceding
noun or pronoun, is put, by apposition, in the same
case: as, “But it is really I, your
old friend and neighbour., Piso, late a dweller
upon the Coelian hill, who am now basking in the warm
skies of Palmyra.”—Zenobia.