“Take that of me, my friend,
who have the power
To seal the accuser’s
lips.”—Beauties of Shakspeare,
p. 268.
UNDER NOTE XII.—WHAT FOR THAT.
“I had no idea but what the story was true.”—Browns Inst., p. 144. “The post-boy is not so weary but what he can whistle.”—Ib. “He had no intimation but what the men were honest.”—Ib. “Neither Lady Haversham nor Miss Mildmay will ever believe, but what I have been entirely to blame.”—See Priestley’s Gram., p. 93. “I am not satisfied, but what the integrity of our friends is more essential to our welfare than their knowledge of the world.”—Ibid. “There is, indeed, nothing in poetry, so entertaining or descriptive, but what a didactic writer of genius may be allowed to introduce in some part of his work.”—Blair’s Rhet., p. 401. “Brasidas, being bit by a mouse he had catched, let it slip out of his fingers: ’No creature, (says he,) is so contemptible but what may provide for its own safety, if it have courage.’”—PLUTARCH: Kames, El. of Crit., Vol. i, p. 81.
UNDER NOTE XIII.—ADJECTIVES FOR ANTECEDENTS.
“In narration, Homer is, at all times, remarkably concise, which renders him lively and agreeable.”—Blair’s Rhet., p. 435. “It is usual to talk of a nervous, a feeble, or a spirited style; which are plainly the characters of a writer’s manner of thinking.”—Ib., p. 92. “It is too violent an alteration, if any alteration were necessary, which none is.”—Knight, on the Greek Alphabet, p. 134. “Some men are too ignorant to be humble, without which, there can be no docility.”—Berkley’s Alciphron, p. 385. “Judas declared him innocent; which he could not be, had he in any respect deceived the disciples.”—Porteus. “They supposed him to be innocent, which he certainly was not.”—Murray’s Gram., Vol. i, p. 50; Emmons’s, 25.