English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Samuel Kirkham
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King Missipsi charged his sons to consider the senate and people of Rome as proprietors of the kingdom of Numidia. Hazael smote the children of Israel in all their coasts; and from what is left on record of his actions, he plainly appears to have proved, what the prophet foresaw him to be, a man of violence, cruelty, and blood. Heaven hides from brutes what men, from men what spirits know. He that formed the ear, can he not hear? He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. NOTE 1. _Learn_, in the first of the preceding examples, is a transitive verb, because the action passes over from the nom. _you_ understood, to _the rest of the sentence_ for its object: RULE 24. In the next example, _that my indiscretions should reach my posterity_, is a part of a sentence put as the nominative to the verb _wounds_, according to the same Rule. 2. The noun _sacrifice_, in the third example, is nom. after the active-intransitive verb _fell_: RULE 22. The noun _proprietors_, in the next sentence, is in the objective case, and put by apposition with _senate_ and _people_: RULE 7, or governed by _consider_, understood, according to RULE 35. 3. In the fifth example, _what_, following _proved_, is a compound relative. _Thing_, the antecedent part, is in the nom. case after |
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