By Preaching of Repentance, and, By the Preaching Repentance, are both judged to be improper. Thefe Sentences are partly elliptical, and partly not fo, and from hence the Impropriety feems to arise. Preaching, in either Form, is a Subftantive diftinguished by the Sense, and a Prepofition prefixt to it: Nor is the Noun following governed by the fuppofed verbal Force of the Word, Preaching, but by the Prepofition expreffed or understood.

"Well is Him. Wo is me. Wo unte "you."

Thefe Sentences are all elliptical, and partly explain each other.

Well is it for Him. Wo is to me. Wo is unto you.

To have Recourfe to a fuppofed dative Cafe is therefore quite unneceffary.

"My Father is greater than I. She loves hiin better than me."

My

My Father is greater than I am. She loves him better than fhe loves me.

To let Blood. To let down."

To let out Blood; or, To let Blood run out. To let it fall or flide down.

"To go a Fishing. To go a Hunt"ing."

To go a Fishing Voyage. To go on a Hunting Party.

"To walk a Mile. To fleep all "Night.”

To walk through the Space of a Mile. To fleep through all the Night.

"A hundred Sheep. A thousand "Men."

A Flock of one Hundred Sheep. A Company of one Thousand Men.

"That Man has a Hundred a Year."

That Man has an Income of a Hundred Pounds in a Year.

"A few Men. A great many "Men."

A Hundred, a Thoufand, Few, Many, are to be confidered as collective Nouns, and distinguished as such by the fingular Article.

A few (i. e, a small Number) of Men. A great many (i. e. a great Number) of Men.

"He is the better for you. The "deeper the Well, the clearer the "Water."

An Article feems, for the moft Part, to be the Sign of a Noun either expreffed or understood; and the above Sentences may be refolved thus:

The

He is the better Man for you. deeper Well, the Well is, the clearer Water, the Water is.

"He

"He defcending, the Doors being ❝ fhut."

This is commonly called the Cafe or State abfolute, and, in English, the Pronoun must be in the Nominative, The Sentence feems to be elliptical, and the Meaning is,

While he was descending, while the Doors were fhut.

"He came into this World of ours."

"I am juftified in publishing any "Letters of Mr. Locke's."

In the first of these Instances the genitive Cafe of the Pronoun comes after the Prepofition, but cannot be governed by it, for then it would be the Accufative: It must therefore be governed by fome other Word undertood in the Sentence.

He came into this World of our Dwelling, Habitation, &c.

And then omitting the Noun it will be, This World of ours, by the common Rules of Conftruction.

The other Sentence may be explained after the fame Manner.

I am justified in publishing any Letters of Mr. Locke's Writing, Correfpondence, &c. i. e. of the Writing or Correfpondence of Mr. Locke,

The Ufe of the genitive Cafe, in fuch Inftances, feems to be a little uncouth. And here I cannot but obferve, that though, on fome occafions, the Genitive has its Propriety and Elegance, yet it fhould, in the General, be used with Caution, and much more sparingly, perhaps, than fome Authors have done,