"fpake to every Gentleman and Lady "of the Place; i. e. To every Gentle"man and to every Lady."

"I did him a Kindnefs. He brought me the News. She gave him the "Letters; i. e. She gave to him the Letters."

The Ellipfis of the Interjection is not very common.

"O Pity and Shame!"

Milton,

EXAMPLES of the ELLIPSIS,

"If good Manners will not justify my long Silence, Policy, at least, "will. And you must confefs, there "is fome Prudence in not owning a "Debt one is incapable of paying.'

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If good Manners will not justify my long silence, Policy at leaft will, justify `it. And you must confefs, that, there is fome Prudence in not owning a Debt, which, one is incapable of paying.

Fitzofbarne's Letters.

"He

"He will often argue, that if this "Part of our Trade were well culti"vated, we should gain from one Na"tion; and if another, from another."

He will often argue, that if this Part

of our Trade were well cultivated, we fhould gain from one Nation; and if another, Part of our Trade were well eultivated, we fhould gain, from another, Nation,

Addifon's Spect.

"Could the Painter have made a "Picture of me, capable of your Con"verfation, I fhould have fat to him " with more Delight than ever I did "to any Thing in my Life,"

Could the Painter have made a Picture of me, which could have been, capable of your Converfation, I fhould have fat to him with more Delight than ever I did, fit, to any Thing in my Life.

Mr. Locke to Mr. Molyneux.

A fow inftances in which perhaps all poffible elliptical Words are fupplied.

"You

"You must renounce the Converfation of your Friends, and every civil "Duty of Life, to be concealed in gloomy and unprofitable Solitude.”

You must renounce the Converfation of your Friends, and, you must renounce, every civil Duty of Life, to be concealed in gloomy, Solitude, and, you muft renounce the Converfation of your Friends, and you must renounce every civil Duty of Life, to be concealed in, unprofitable Solitude.

Fitzofborne's Letters.

"When a Man is thoroughly per"fuaded that he ought neither to ad"mire, with for, or purfue any Thing "but what is actually his Duty; it is "not in the Power of Seasons, Per"fons, or Accidents, to diminish his "Value."

When a Man is thoroughly perfuaded that he ought neither to admire, any Thing but what is actually his Duty to admire, and when a Man is thoroughly perfuaded that he ought neither to with for any Thing but what is actually his Duty

to

to wish for, or, when a Man is thoroughly perfuaded that he ought not to pursue any Thing but what is actually his Duty, to purfus; it is not in the Power of Seafons, to diminish his Value, and it is not in the Power of Perfons, to diminish his Value, or it is not in the Power of Accidents, to diminish his Value.

Addifon's Spect.

The following Inftances are produced to fhew the Impropriety of Ellipfis, in some particular Cases.

"That learned Gentleman, if he "had read my Effay quite through, ❝ would have found feveral of his Ob"jections might have been spared."

It should have been-Would have found, that, feveral of his Objections, &c.

"I fcarce know any Part of Natu"ral Philofophy would yield more Variety and Ufe."

NOTE. Or, which occurs twice in the elliptical Sentence above, is rather an Impropriety; it should have been nor.

Any

--Any Part of Natural Philofophy, which, would yield more Variety and Use.

"You and I cannot be of two Opi"nions; nor, I think, any two Men, " used to think with Freedom."

-Nor, I think, any two Men, who are, ufed to think with Freedom.

Mr. Locke to Mr. Molyneux..

Some Sentences which feem to differ from the common Forms of Construction accounted for on the Suppofition of Ellipfis.

"By preaching Repentance. By the "preaching of Repentance.

Both these are fuppofed to be proper and fynonymous Expreffions, and I cannot but think, the former is an Ellipfis of the latter, in which the Article and the Prepofition are both fuppreffed by Custom.

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