(2.) “When prepositions are subjoined to nouns, they are generally the same which are subjoined to the verbs, from which the nouns are derived.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 157.  “The same proportions which are agreeable in a model, are not agreeable in a large building.”—­Kames, EL of Crit., ii, 343.  “The same ornaments, which we admire in a private apartment, are unseemly in a temple.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 128.  “The same whom John saw also in the sun.”—­Milton.  P. L., B. iii, l. 623.

(3.) “Who can ever be easy, who is reproached with his own ill conduct?”—­Thomas a Kempis, p. 72.  “Who is she who comes clothed in a robe of green?”—­Inst., p. 143.  “Who who has either sense or civility, does not perceive the vileness of profanity?”

(4.) “The second person denotes the person or thing which is spoken to.”—­Compendium in Kirkham’s Gram. “The third person denotes the person or thing which is spoken of.”—­Ibid. “A passive verb denotes action received or endured by the person or thing which is its nominative.”—­Ibid, and Gram., p. 157.  “The princes and states who had neglected or favoured the growth of this power.”—­Bolingbroke, on History, p. 222.  “The nominative expresses the name of the person, or thing which acts, or which is the subject of discourse.”—­Hiley’s Gram., p. 19. (5.) “Authors who deal in long sentences, are very apt to be faulty.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 108.  “Writers who deal in long sentences, are very apt to be faulty.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 313.  “The neuter gender denotes objects which are neither male nor female.”—­Merchant’s Gram., p. 26.  “The neuter gender denotes things which have no sex.”—­Kirkham’s Compendium.  “Nouns which denote objects neither male nor female, are of the neuter gender.”—­Wells’s Gram., 1st Ed., p. 49.  “Objects and ideas which have been long familiar, make too faint an impression to give an agreeable exercise to our faculties.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 50.  “Cases which custom has left dubious, are certainly within the grammarian’s province.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 164.  “Substantives which end in ery, signify action or habit.”—­Ib., p. 132.  “After all which can be done to render the definitions and rules of grammar accurate,” &c.—­Ib., p. 36.  “Possibly, all which I have said, is known and taught.”—­A.  B. Johnson’s Plan of a Dict., p. 15.

(6.) “It is a strong and manly style which should chiefly be studied.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 261.  “It is this which chiefly makes a division appear neat and elegant.”—­Ib., p. 313.  “I hope it is not I with whom he is displeased.”—­Murray’s Key, R. 17.  “When it is this alone which renders the sentence obscure.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 242.  “This sort of full and ample assertion, ’it is this which,’ is fit to be used when a proposition of importance is laid down.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 197.  “She is the person whom I understood it to have been.” See Murray’s Gram., p. 181.  “Was it thou, or the wind, who shut the door?”—­Inst., p. 143.  “It was not I who shut it.”—­Ib.