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Even the preposition ab, which so frequently occurs in our compound verbs is preserved entire only in the formality of a Journal, and, indeed, not always there: in every other sort of language it is frequently altered. Thus we say amovit, abegit, and abstulit; so that you can scarcely determine whether the primitive preposition should be ab or abs.
Noti, navi, and nari, have all been words in common use: but when they were afterwards to be compounded with the preposition in, it was thought more harmonious to say ignoti, ignavi, and ignari, than to adhere strictly to the rules of etymology.
The use of the preposition de, almost as in the Romance languages, where case- inflexions would be employed in classical Latin, has been held to argue an African origin; while its remarkable mediaevalisms have led some critics, against all the other indications, to place its date as low as the fourth or even the fifth century.
Faith, "breaking every yoke," united master and servants in the bonds of brotherhood. Our excellent translators, in rendering the clause 'partakers of the benefit, evidently lost sight of the component preposition, which expresses the opposition of reciprocity, rather than the connection of participation.
I must also mention the Nine Muses, the Three Graces; Bacchus, the Maenads, the Panthers, the Fauns; and I owe very hearty thanks to Apollo. 'True, I used "and which" on page 47, but Martha Brown the stylist gave me leave; or: 'What if I do end a sentence with a preposition? I always follow the rules of Mr Twist in his "'Tis Thus 'Twas Spoke", Odd's Body an' I do not!
I myself, for having shown error in a single preposition, had an invective written against me wherein I was taxed with treachery, fraud, indecency, and even hideous crimes. Such, my young friend such are the flowers with which the glorious path of scholarship is strewed!
But let us insist on giving independence to this idea of local relation. Must we not then hold to the preposition? No, we can make a noun of it. We can say something like "he reached the proximity of the house" or "he reached the house-locality." Instead of saying "he looked into the glass" we may say "he scrutinized the glass-interior."
There is one preposition, abs, which has now only an existence in account books; but in all other conversation of every sort is changed: for we say amovit, and abegit, and abstulit, so that you cannot now tell whether ab is the correct form or abs.
Yet in spite of the self-evident truth of this historical preposition we know little about life and thought in the watershed years when Europe was ceasing to be Roman but was not yet medieval.
"We get out here," said Burnett. They all got out and went up in an elevator. "Seems to be a good many goin’ to the same place," said Aunt Mary. "Yes," said Mitchell, "a good many people generally go to places that are great places for a good many people to go to." "You ought not to end with a preposition," said Clover. "There, I left my ear-trumpet in the carriage!" said Aunt Mary.
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