79; Alden’s, 149; Abel Flint’s, 103; Russell’s, 115.  But the blunders and contradictions on this point, end not here.  Dr. Blair happened most unlearnedly to say, “What is called splitting of particles, or separating a preposition from the noun which it governs, is always to be avoided.  As if I should say, ’Though virtue borrows no assistance from, yet it may often be accompanied by, the advantages of fortune.’”—­Lect.  XII, p. 112.  This too, though the author himself did not always respect the rule, has been thought worthy to be copied, or stolen, with all its faults!  See Jamieson’s Rhetoric, p. 93; and Murray’s Octavo Gram., p. 319.

OBS. 17.—­Dr. Lowth says, “The noun aversion, (that is, a turning away,) as likewise the adjective averse, seems to require the preposition from after it; and not so properly to admit of to, or for, which are often used with it.”—­Gram., p. 98.  But this doctrine has not been adopted by the later grammarians:  “The words averse and aversion (says Dr. Campbell) are more properly construed with to than with from.  The examples in favour of the latter preposition, are beyond comparison outnumbered by those in favour of the former.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, 201; Fisk’s, 142; Ingersoll’s, 229.  This however must be understood only of mental aversion.  The expression of Milton, “On the coast averse from entrance,” would not be improved, if from were changed to to.  So the noun exception, and the verb to except, are sometimes followed by from, which has regard to the Latin particle ex, with which the word commences; but the noun at least is much more frequently, and perhaps more properly, followed by to.  Examples:  “Objects of horror must be excepted from the foregoing theory.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 268. “From which there are but two exceptions, both of them rare.”—­Ib., ii. 89. “To the rule that fixes the pause after the fifth portion, there is one exception, and no more.”—­Ib., ii, 84.  “No exception can be taken to the justness of the figure.”—­Ib., ii, 37.  “Originally there was no exception from the rule.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 58. “From this rule there is mostly an exception.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, 269.  “But to this rule there are many exceptions.”—­Ib., i. 240.  “They are not to be regarded as exceptions from the rule,”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 363.