"Nor did they not perceive the evil plight: In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel." Milton, P. L. i. 335.

PREPOSITIONS have a Government of Cafes and in English they always require the Objective Cafe after them: as, "with him; from her; to me [1].”.

"She cannot love,

Nor take no fhape nor project of affection."

Ibid.

Shakespear uses this conftruction frequently. It is a relique of the antient style, abounding with Negatives; which is now grown wholly obsolete:

"And of his port as meke as is a mayde:

He never yet no vilanie ne fayde

In alle his lif unto no manere wight.
He was a veray parfit gentil knight."

"I cannot by no means allow him, that this

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must prove," Bentley, Differt. on Phalaris, p. 515. "That we need not, nor do not, confine the purposes of God." Id. Sermon 8.

[1] "Who ferveft thou under ?"

Shakespear, Hen. V. As you like it. withal, who Time

"Who do you speak to ?" I'll tell you, who Time ambles trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he ftands ftill withal.

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I pr'ythee, whom doth he trot withal?” Ibid.

The Prepofition is often feparated from the Relative which it governs, and joined to the Verb at the end of the Sentence, or of fome member of it: as," Horace is an author, whom I am much delighted with.”

The world is too well bred to shock authors with a truth, which generally their bookfellers are the first that inform them of" [2]. This is an idiom, which our language is ftrongly inclined to it prevails in common converfation, and fuits very well with the familiar ftyle in writing: but the placing of the Prepofition before the Relative is more graceful, as well as more perfpicuous; and agrees much better with the folemn and elevated ftyle [3].

"We are still much at a lofs, who civil power belongs to." Locke.

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In all thefe, places, it ought to be whom,

"Now Margaret's curfe is fall'n upon our heads, When the exclaim'd on Haflings, you,

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Shakefpear, Rich, III.

It ought to be me.

[2] Pope, Preface to his Poems.

[3] Some writers feparate the Prepofition from its Noun, in order to connect different Prepofitions with

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* No sentence shoe with a preposition.