An English Grammar Part 106

I part _with_ all that grew so near my heart.--WALLER.

[Sidenote: "_Part_ from."]

To part _from_ you would be misery.--MARRYAT.

I have just seen her, just parted _from_ her.--BULWER.

Burke parted _from_ him with deep emotion.--MACAULAY.

His precious bag, which he would by no means part _from_.--G.

ELIOT.

[Sidenote: _Kind_ in _you_, _kind_ of _you_.]

466. With words implying behavior or disposition, either _of_ or _in_ is used indifferently, as shown in the following quotations:--

[Sidenote: Of.]

It was a little bad _of_ you.--TROLLOPE.

How cruel _of_ me!--COLLINS.

He did not think it handsome _of_ you.--BULWER.

But this is idle _of_ you.--TENNYSON.

[Sidenote: In.]

Very natural _in_ Mr. Hampden.--CARLYLE.

It will be anything but shrewd _in_ you.--d.i.c.kENS.

That is very unreasonable _in_ a person so young.--BEACONSFIELD.

I am wasting your whole morning--too bad _in_ me.--BULWER.

Miscellaneous Examples for Correction.

1. Can you imagine Indians or a semi-civilized people engaged on a work like the ca.n.a.l connecting the Mediterranean and the Red seas?

2. In the friction between an employer and workman, it is commonly said that his profits are high.

3. None of them are in any wise willing to give his life for the life of his chief.

4. That which can be done with perfect convenience and without loss, is not always the thing that most needs to be done, or which we are most imperatively required to do.

5. Art is neither to be achieved by effort of thinking, nor explained by accuracy of speaking.

6. To such as thee the fathers owe their fame.

7. We tread upon the ancient granite that first divided the waters into a northern and southern ocean.

8. Thou tread'st, with seraphims, the vast abyss.

9. Eustace had slipped off his long cloak, thrown it over Amyas's head, and ran up the alley.

10. This narrative, tedious perhaps, but which the story renders necessary, may serve to explain the state of intelligence betwixt the lovers.

11. To the shame and eternal infamy of whomsoever shall turn back from the plow on which he hath laid his hand!

12. The noise of vast cataracts, raging storms, thunder, or artillery, awake a great and awful sensation in the mind.

13. The materials and ornaments ought neither to be white, nor green, nor yellow, nor blue, nor of a pale red.

14. This does not prove that an idea of use and beauty are the same thing, or that they are any way dependent on each other.

15. And were I anything but what I am, I would wish me only he.

16. But every man may know, and most of us do know, what is a just and unjust act.

17. You have seen Ca.s.sio and she together.

18. We shall shortly see which is the fittest object of scorn, you or me.

19. Richard glared round him with an eye that seemed to seek an enemy, and from which the angry n.o.bles shrunk appalled.

20. It comes to whomsoever will put off what is foreign and proud.

21. The difference between the just and unjust procedure does not lie in the number of men hired, but in the price paid to them.

22. The effect of proportion and fitness, so far at least as they proceed from a mere consideration of the work itself, produce approbation, the acquiescence of the understanding.

23. When the gla.s.s or liquor are transparent, the light is sometimes softened in the pa.s.sage.

24. For there nor yew nor cypress spread their gloom.

25. Every one of these letters are in my name.

26. Neither of them are remarkable for precision.

27. Squares, triangles, and other angular figures, are neither beautiful to the sight nor feeling.

28. There is not one in a thousand of these human souls that cares to think where this estate is, or how beautiful it is, or what kind of life they are to lead in it.

29. Dryden and Rowe's manner are quite out of fashion.