5.  Objectives by Rule 5th:  “Those whom she persuaded.”—­Dr. Johnson.  “The cloak that I left at Troas.”—­St. Paul.  “By the things which he suffered.”—­Id. “A man whom there is reason to suspect.”—­“What are we to do?”—­Burke.  “Love refuses nothing that love sends.”—­Gurnall.  “The first thing, says he, is, to choose some maxim or point of morality; to inculcate which, is to be the design of his work.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 421. “Whomsoever you please to appoint.”—­Lowth. “Whatsover [sic—­KTH] he doeth, shall prosper.”—­Bible. “What we are afraid to do before men, we should be afraid to think before God.”—­Sibs.  “Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do?”—­Gen., xviii, 32.  “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am going to do?”—­“Call imperfection what thou fanciest such.”—­Pope.

6.  Objectives by Rule 6th:  (i.e., pronouns parsed as objectives after neuter verbs, though they stand before them:) “He is not the man that I took him to be.”—­“Whom did you suppose me to be?”—­“If the lad ever become what you wish him to be.”

7.  Objectives by Rule 7th:  “To whom shall we go?”—­Bible.  “The laws by which the world is governed, are general.”—­Bp.  Butler. “Whom he looks upon as his defender.”—­Addison.  “That secret heaviness of heart which unthinking men are subject to.”—­Id. “I cannot but think the loss of such talents as the man of whom I am speaking was master of, a more melancholy instance.”—­Steele.  “Grammar is the solid foundation upon which all other science rests.”—­Buchanan’s Eng.  Synt., p. xx.

OBS. 22.—­In familiar language, the relative of the objective case is frequently understood; as, “The man [whom] I trust.”—­Cowper.  “Here is the letter [which] I received.”  So in the following sentences:  “This is the man they hate.  These are the goods they bought.  Are these the Gods they worship?  Is this the woman you saw?”—­Ash’s Gram., p. 96.  This ellipsis seems allowable only in the familiar style.  In grave writing, or deliberate discourse, it is much better to express this relative.  The omission of it is often attended with some obscurity; as, “The next error [that] I shall mention [,] is a capital one.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 157.  “It is little [that] we know of the divine perfections.”—­Scougal, p. 94.  “The faith [which] we give to memory, may be thought, on a superficial view, to be resolvable into consciousness, as well as that [which] we give to the immediate impressions of sense.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 53.  “We speak that [which] we do know, and testify that [which] we have seen.”—­John, iii, 11.  The omission of a relative in the nominative