[214] “Notwithstanding these verbal mistakes, the Bible, for the size of it, is the most accurate grammatical composition that we have in the English language.  The authority of several eminent grammarians might be adduced in support of this assertion, but it may be sufficient to mention only that of Dr. Lowth, who says, ’The present translation of the Bible, is the best standard of the English language.’”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 166.  I revere the Bible vastly too much to be pleased with an imitation of its peculiar style, in any man’s ordinary speech or writing.—­G.  BROWN.

[215] “Ye, except in the solemn style, is obsolete; but it is used in the language of tragedy, to express contempt:  as, ’When ye shall know what Margaret knows, ye may not be so thankful.’  Franklin.”—­W.  Allen’s Gram., p. 57.  “The second person plural had formerly YE both in the nominative and the objective. This form is now obsolete in the objective, and nearly obsolete in the nominative.”—­Hart’s Gram., p. 55.

[216] So has Milton:—­

   “To waste it all myself, and leave ye none! 
    So disinherited how would you bless me!”—­Par.  Lost, B. x, l. 820.

[217] “The word what is a compound of two specifying adjectives, each, of course, referring to a noun, expressed or understood.  It is equivalent to the which; that which; which that; or that that; used also in the plural.  At different periods, and in different authors, it appears in the varying forms, tha qua, qua tha, qu’tha, quthat, quhat, hwat, and what.  This word is found in other forms; but it is needless to multiply them.”—­Cardell’s Essay on Language, p. 86.

[218] This author’s distribution of the pronouns, of which I have taken some notice in Obs. 10th above, is remarkable for its inconsistencies and absurdities.  First he avers, “Pronouns are generally divided into three kinds, the Personal, the Adjective, and the Relative pronouns. They are all known by the lists.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 96.  These short sentences are far from being accurate, clear, or true.  He should have made the several kinds known, by a good definition of each.  But this was work to which he did not find himself adequate.  And if we look to his lists for the particular words of each kind, we shall get little satisfaction.  Of the Personal pronouns, he says, “There are five of them; I, thou, he, she, it.”—­Ib., p. 97.  These are simple words, and in their declension they are properly multiplied to forty. (See Ib., p. 99.) Next he seems to double the number, thus:  “When self is added to the personal pronouns, as himself, myself, itself, themselves, &c. they are called Compound Personal Pronouns.”—­Ib.,