thou hast created them.”—­Psalms, lxxxix, 12.  “And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them.”—­1 Tim., vi, 2.  “And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare.”—­Levit., xiii, 45. “They who serve me with adoration,—­I am in them, and they [are] in me.”—­R.  W. EMERSON:  Liberator, No. 996.

-------------------------“What may this mean,
That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel,
Revisitst thus the glimpses of the moon,
Making night hideous; and, we fools of nature,[371]
So horribly to shake our disposition
With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?”—­Shak.  Hamlet.

IV.  When, by mere exclamation, it is used without address, and without other words expressed or implied to give it construction; as, “And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth.” Exodus, xxxiv, 6.  “O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!”—­Rom., xi, 33.  “I should not like to see her limping back, Poor beast!”—­Southey.

   “Oh! deep enchanting prelude to repose,
    The dawn of bliss, the twilight of our woes!”—­Campbell.

OBS. 2.—­The nominative put absolute with a participle, is often equivalent to a dependent clause commencing with when, while, if, since, or because.  Thus, “I being a child,” may be equal to, “When I was a child,” or, “Because I was a child.”  Here, in lieu of the nominative, the Greeks used the genitive case, and the Latins, the ablative.  Thus, the phrase, “[Greek:  Kai hysteraesantos oinou],” “And the wine failing,” is rendered by Montanus, “Et deficiente vino;” but by Beza, “Et cum defecisset vinum;” and in our Bible, “And when they wanted wine.”—­John, ii, 3.  After a noun or a pronoun thus put absolute, the participle being is frequently understood, especially if an adjective or a like case come after the participle; as,

   “They left their bones beneath unfriendly skies,
    His worthless absolution [being] all the prize.”
        —­Cowper, Vol. i, p. 84.

“Alike in ignorance, his reason [------] such,
Whether he thinks too little or too much.”—­Pope, on Man.

OBS. 3.—­The case which is put absolute in addresses or invocations, is what in the Latin and Greek grammars is called the Vocative.  Richard Johnson says, “The only use of the Vocative Case, is, to call upon a Person, or a thing put Personally, which we speak to, to give notice to what we direct our Speech; and this is therefore, properly speaking, the only Case absolute or independent which we may make use of without respect to any other Word.”—­Gram.  Commentaries, p. 131.  This remark, however,