 | Robert Lowth - 1763 - 226 pages
...depend very much upon the proper and determinate ufe of the Relative, fo that it may readily prefent its Antecedent to the mind of the hearer or reader without any obfcurity or ambiguity. The fame may be obferved of the Pronoun and the l4ounk which by fome are called... | |
 | Robert Lowth (bp. of London.) - 1775 - 442 pages
...depend very much upon the proper and determinate ufe of the Relative ; fo that it may readily prefent its Antecedent to the mind of the hearer, or reader, without any obfcurity or ambiguity. The fame may be obferved of the Pronoun and the Noun ; which by fome are called... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1805 - 350 pages
...disciples of Christ, whom we mutate ;" we may mean the imitation either of Christ, or of his disciples. The accuracy and clearness of the sentence, depend...antecedent to the mind of the hearer or reader, without any obscuriijor ambiguity. The neuter pronoun, by an idiom peculiar to the English language, is frequently... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1805 - 348 pages
...we may mean the imitation either of Christ, or of his disciples. The accuracy and clearness of tlie sentence, depend very much upon the proper and determinate...or reader, without any obscurity or ambiguity. The neuter pronoun, by an idiom peculiar to the English language, is frequently joinsd in explanatory sentences,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1805 - 350 pages
...imitation either of Christ, or of his disciples. The accuracy and clearness of the sentence,depend very much upon the proper and determinate use of the...or reader, without any obscurity or ambiguity. The neuter pronoun, by an idiom peculiar to the English language, is frequently joined in explanatory sentences,with... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1805 - 348 pages
...depend very much upon the proper and determinate ufe of the relative, fo that it may readily prefent its antecedent to the mind of the hearer or reader, without any obfcuritjr or ambiguity. The neuter pronoun, by an idiom peculiar to the Englilh language, is frequently... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1807 - 290 pages
...disciples of Christ, whom we imitate ;" we may mean the imitation either of Christ, or of his disciples. The accuracy and clearness of the sentence, depend...of the relative, so that it may readily present its antecedei,; to the mind of the hearer or reader, without any obscurity or ambiguity. The neuter pronoun,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1808 - 526 pages
...disciples of Christ, whom we imitate ;" we may mean the imitation either of Christ, or of his disciples. The accuracy and clearness of the sentence, depend...hearer or reader, without any obscurity or ambiguity, 10. It is and it was, are often, after the manner of the French, used in a plural construction, and... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1809 - 330 pages
...disciples of Christ, whom we imitate ;" we may mean. the imitation either of Christ, or of his x disciples. The accuracy and clearness of the sentence, depend...hearer or reader, without any obscurity or ambiguity. 10. It is and it loaf, are often, after the manner of the French, used in a plural construction, and... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1809 - 348 pages
...whom we imitate -," we may mean the imitation either of Christ, or of his disciples. The accuracy a»d clearness of the sentence, depend very much upon the...hearer or reader, without any obscurity or ambiguity. 1,0. It is and it ivas, are often, after the manner of the French, used in a plural construction, and... | |
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Which of them, is he or she ?" 9. As the pronoun relative has no distinction of number, we sometimes find an ambiguity in the use of it : as when we say, " The disciples of Christ, whom we imitate ;" we may mean the imitation either of Christ, or of... 
