 | sir William Smith - 1873 - 280 pages
...Ailam" (Milton): that is, spake. Cbs. Hence such an expression as the following, is incorrect : " Whkh rule, if it had been observed, a neighbouring prince...that incense, which hath been offered up to him by hie adorers." (Atterbury, vol. i. serm. i.) The Pronoun it is here the Nominative Case to the Verb... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1873 - 202 pages
...disagreeable, they often improve us. 294. Simple and innocent pleasures, they alone are durable. 295. Which rule, if it had been observed, a neighbouring...prince would have wanted a great deal of that incense whicli has been offered up to him. 296. Man, though he has great variety of thoughts, and such, from... | |
 | Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner - English language - 1874 - 512 pages
...gentle creditors, lose (SiiAKsi'., II Henry IV. 5. Epilogue); although similar sentences, for ex.: Which rule, if it had been observed, a neighbouring...would have wanted a great deal of that incense which has been offered up to him (Нл/ытт, Gr. Lond. 1810 p. 111.), are rejected by grammarians. An occasion... | |
 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1875 - 380 pages
...slays young or old, it shall be punished sevenfold. 4. He that promises too much, do not trust. 5. Which rule, if it had been observed, a neighbouring...would have wanted a great deal of that incense which has been offered up to him. 6. Who, if he break, thou mayst with better face Exact the penalty. 7.... | |
 | David Salmon - English language - 1890 - 318 pages
...Pronoun. Omit they, (2) I do not like the house in which I live in. Omit the first or the second in. (3) Which rule if it had been observed a neighbouring prince would have wanted a great deal of the incense which has been offered up to him. For' which rule if it' say ' if this rule.' 4) The king... | |
 | Henry Charles Beeching - 1909 - 428 pages
...observed, a neighbouring prince (who now, God be thanked, needs flattery somewhat more than ever he did) would have wanted a great deal of that incense, which hath been offered up to him by his adorers." This is a survival of the manner of South, and ^ermo"_. Atterbury did not repeat the experiment. But... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 534 pages
...neighbouring prince " (which now, God be thanked, needs flattery a great " deal more than ever he did) would have wanted a " great deal of that incense which hath been offered " up to him by his adorers." This head appears scarcely to deserve any place among the more important topics that naturally presented... | |
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Which rule, if it had been observed, a neighbouring prince would have wanted a great deal of that incense which hath been offered up to him. 
