The treasury of knowledge and library of reference / [Samuel Maunder].

  • Maunder, Samuel, 1785-1849
Date:
1848
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    EX THEY ADMIRED THE COUNTRYMAN’S, AS THEY CALLED HIM, CANDOUR AND HONESTY, EX. — THE DUKE ACTED BOLDER THAN WAS EXPECTED. factory I found several beautiful subjects just manufacturing. In this sentence, either tlie present participle of the passive voice (.being manufactured) should have been used, or a different construction adopted: as, “ In the Gobelin manufac- tory I found several beautiful subjects Intransitive verbs and participles, and verbs transitive in the passive voice, admit mode: thus, “ Public worship tends to unite manlcind.” “ Endeavouring to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace.’’ “ ButPaul was permitted to dwell by him- self.” 1. Thousli the sign to is generally used before the latter verb, it is omitted before the verbs which follow dare, hid, make, feel, need, hear, let, see; as, “I feel my heart throb strangely.” “ I see the rural virtues leave the land.” “ Sick of the tu- mult where the trumpet’s breath bids ruin smile. “ But need they leave the land ? ” “ They dare not longer stay. “ While Ocean hears vindictive thunders roll. “Thou shalt make pae hear of joy and gladness.” “ For let kind nature do the best she can, ’Tis woman stiU that makes or mars the man.” 2. But the sign to is omitted only when the former verb is in the active voice j for when it is in the passive, the sign to is re- tained : as, “ She ne’er is seen to weep, or heard to sigh. 3. The infinitive mode is frequently ad- “There is a time to weep, and a time to laugh. “ Be ready to hear, but slow to advise ; slow to promise, but quick to per- form. 4. The verbs think, suppose, believe, pre- tend, and others expressing acts of the mind, are frequently used as transitive verbs, when perhaps, in strictness, they ought to be used as intransitive ones, with a corresponding phraseology; thus, “ I believe him to be a very honest man.” “Utterly unacquainted with those very discoveries which he here pretent/s to be so evident.” “ Many hours elapsed before he could he said to reflect. Whom do you suppose it to be* “Bills are requested to be paid half yearly.” The sentences ought, I tliiiik, to be ; “I believe [that] he is a very honest man.” “Utterly unac- quainted with those very discoveries ic/uc/i he herd pretends are so evident. Many liours elapsed before it could be said that he reflected. “ I17io do you suppose it isf It isrcqitcsted that bdlsbepatd Iialf yearly.” RUBE XXII. The verb intransitive be, with intran- sitive verbs in general, und^ transitive verbs in the passive voice, require the case following to be the same as that which precedes them ; as, “ / am he. btveas I. “They took him to lie me. Iho country blooms a garden and a prarc. “ And Joseph was made ruler over all the land of EgjTit.” RUBE xxirr. The present participle, when used as a verb,does not admit an article before it, or the preposition of after it; as, “ The young, is stronger than the desire of satis- As a noun, it is nsed in three ways :— 1, with an article before it, and the pre- position of after it; thus, “ Wliirlpoois in the ocean are cansed by roeks, and the meeting of numerous currents.” 2. With- out an article before it, or the preposition of after it; as, “ Scarcely a day passes, in which some human being is not, without learnij^, summoned to the grave.” 3. With an article, an adjective, or a possessive case before it j but without the preposition of after it: as, “Justice is the paying a strict regard to the rights and interests of others ; or the not preferring our own welfare to theirs.” “ This drinking cold water moderately in a morning, makes the pill and the pnrging-draught super- fluons.” “Much depends on John's ob- serving the day; his neglecting it would give pain.” i “ Some late writers have disearded a phraseology which appears unobjection- ' able, and snbstitnted one which seems less i eorrect: and Instead of saying; ‘ Bady ' hlacbeth’s walking in her sleep, is an in- cident full of tragic horror,’ would say,' ‘ Bady Macbeth, walking in her sleep, is I an incident full of tragic horror.” This seems to me an idle aftectation of the Batin idiom, less precise than the common mode of expression,-and less consonant '■ ask what was an incident full of tragic j horror; and, according to this pliraseo- i logy, the answer must be, Badj' Macbeth : ! whereas the meaning is, not that Lady , Macbeth, but her walking in her sleep, was an incident full of tragic horror. “Tliis phraseology also, in many in- stances, conveys not the intended idea. For, ns Priestley remarks, if it is said, ‘ What think you of my horse’s running to-day ?’ it is implied that the horse did actually run. If it is said, ‘ What think you of my horse running to-day ? ’ it is intended to ask, whether it be proper for my horse to run to-day. This distinction, though frequently neglected, deserves at- i tention ; for it is obvious, that ambiguity may arise from using the latter only of 1 these phraseologies to express both mean- ings.’—Oombi^ I The present participle is also sometimes used absolutely; so: “ This conduct,n’nr- ing it in the most favourable light, reflects discredit on his character.” Here the i participle is made absolute, and is equi- I valent to “ if we view it in the most fa- I voiirahle light,” or to tlic inflnitivc abso- lute, to view it in the most favourable light.” i RUT.E XXIV. ' Verbs and nouns exiiressivc of hope, de- sire, c.rnectntinn, intention, &c. inn.t be followcu by the present tense of the in- KEY. THE DUKE ACTED MORE BOLDLY THAN WAS EXI’ErTED. THEY ADMIUED THE CANDOUR AND HONESTY OF THE COUNTRYMAN, AS THEY CALLED HIM