Exercise.
Rewrite the following quotations by repeating one relative instead of using two for the same antecedent:—
[Sidenote: That ... who.]
1. Still in the
confidence of children that tread without fear
every chamber in their
father’s house, and to whom no door is
closed.—DE
QUINCEY.
2. Those renowned
men that were our ancestors as much as yours,
and whose examples and
principles we inherit.—BEECHER.
3. The Tree Igdrasil,
that has its roots down in the kingdoms
of Hela and Death, and
whose boughs overspread the highest
heaven!—CARLYLE.
[Sidenote: That ... which.]
4. Christianity
is a religion that reveals men as the object of
God’s infinite
love, and which commends him to the unbounded love
of his brethren.—W.E.
CHANNING.
5. He flung into
literature, in his Mephistopheles, the first
organic figure that
has been added for some ages, and which will
remain as long as the
Prometheus.—EMERSON.
6. Gutenburg might
also have struck out an idea that surely did
not require any extraordinary
ingenuity, and which left the most
important difficulties
to be surmounted.—HALLAM.
7. Do me the justice
to tell me what I have a title to be
acquainted with, and
which I am certain to know more truly from
you than from others.—SCOTT.
8. He will do this
amiable little service out of what one may
say old civilization
has established in place of goodness of
heart, but which is
perhaps not so different from it.—HOWELLS.
9. In my native
town of Salem, at the head of what, half a
century ago, was a bustling
wharf,—but which is now burdened
with decayed wooden
warehouses.—HAWTHORNE.
10. His recollection of what he considered as extreme presumption in the Knight of the Leopard, even when he stood high in the roles of chivalry, but which, in his present condition, appeared an insult sufficient to drive the fiery monarch into a frenzy of passion.—SCOTT
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11. He, now without
any effort but that which he derived from the
sill, and what little
his feet could secure the irregular
crevices, was hung in
air.—W.G. SIMMS.
[Sidenote: Such as ... which.]
12. It rose into
a thrilling passion, such as my heart had always
dimly craved and hungered
after, but which now first interpreted
itself to my ear.—DE
QUINCEY.
13. I recommend
some honest manual calling, such as they have
very probably been bred
to, and which will at least give them a
chance of becoming President.—HOLMES.
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14. I grudge the
dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men
as do not belong to
me, and to whom I do not belong.—EMERSON.