Confufion

ther, and should, to prevent

and Obscurity, answer to each other with great Exactness..

"We speak that we do know, and "teftify that we have feen."

The Ellipfis, in fuch Inftances, is manifeftly improper: Let it therefore be fupplied. "We fpeak that which "we do know, and testify that which we have feen.

The Relative, what, in the neuter Gender,. feems to include both the Antecedent and the Relative. "This "is what you speak of; i. e. "Thing which you speak of."

The ELLIPSIS of the VERB,

The

"The Man was old and crafty; "i. e. The Man was old, and the Man "was crafty."

"She is young, and rich, and "beautiful. Thou art poor, and "wretched, and miferable, and blind, " and naked."

But

But if we would, in fuch Enumerations, point out one Property above the reft, let that Property be put laft, and the Ellipfis supplied.

"She is young and beautiful, and he is rich."

"I recommend the Father and "Son. We Saw the Town and "Country. He rewarded the Wo"men and Children."

"You ought to love and ferve him. "I defire to hear and learn. He went " to fee and hear; i. e. He went "to fee, and he went to hear."

In which laft Inftances there is not only an Ellipfis of the governing Verb, but likewife of the Sign of the Infinitive Mode which is governed by it.

And here it may not be amifs to obferve, that fome Verbs, through Custom at least, seem to require the Ellipfis of this Sign.

"I bid you

" me go

He made

rife and go. and do it. I heard him curfe "and fwear. I faw her go that Way, You need not fpeak. Would you "have me call?"

In all which Inftances the Sign of the Infinitive Mode would be improper,

The ELLIPSIS of the Adverb, Prepofition, Conjunction, and Interjection.

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"He fpake and acted wifely. They fing and play moft delightfully. She foon found and acknowledged her "Miftake. Thrice I went and offered my Service;" that is," Thrice "I went, and thrice I offered my "Service."

"They confefs the Power, Wif"dom, Goodness, and Love of their "Creator; i. e. The Power, and Wif "dom, and Goodness, and Love."

"May I fpeak of Power, Wisdom, "Goodness, Truth?"

The

The entire Ellipfis of the Conjunction, as in the laft Inftance, occurs but feldom: In fome particular Cafes, however, it may have its Propriety.

"Though I love, I do not adore him. Though he went up, he could "fee Nothing; i. e. Though I love "him, yet I do not adore him," Ι

"I defire you would come to me. He faid he would do it; i. e. He "faid that he would do it.'

Thefe Conjunctions may be fometimes omitted; but, for the most Part, it is much better to exprefs them.

There are feveral Parts of Correfpondent Conjunctions, or fuch as anfwer to each other in the Conftruction of a Sentence, which fhould be carefully obferved, and perhaps never fuppreffed.

That answering to fo. "It is fo ob"vious that I need not mention it."

As

"The City

As anfwering to so.

"of Bristol is not n ar so large as that

"" of London."

So answering to as. "Priest, so are the People."

"As is the

As answering to as.

"She is as

" tall as you."

Nor answering to neither. "Neither "the one nor the other."

Or anfwering to either. "this Man or that Man."

"Either

Or anfwering to whether. “Whether it were I or you."

Yet answering to though or although. Though the was young, yet he was "not handfome."

PREPOSITIONS are often fuppreffed.

"He went into the Churches, Halls, "and public Buildings: Through the "Streets and Lanes of the City: He

Spake