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Here, however, I should state that Frank never thought, as some boys do, that it is smart and manly to swear. Sometimes we hear a man talk, whom the vicious habit so controls that he cannot speak without blasphemy. With such, oaths become as necessary a part of speech as articles or prepositions. If deprived of them they are crippled; they seem lost, and cannot express themselves.
After a night behind the scenes Paul found the schoolroom more than ever repulsive; the bare floors and naked walls; the prosy men who never wore frock coats, or violets in their buttonholes; the women with their dull gowns, shrill voices, and pitiful seriousness about prepositions that govern the dative.
And these three prepositions, with, before, after, attached to the general idea of life as a walk, give us a triple aspect which yet is, of course, fundamentally, one of the way in which life may be ennobled, dignified, calmed, hallowed, focussed, and concentrated by the various relations into which we enter with Him. So I take the three of them. 'Enoch walked with God.
This omission has had a very great effect upon philosophy; it is hardly too much to say that most metaphysics, since Spinoza, has been largely determined by it. The way this has occurred is, in outline, as follows: Speaking generally, adjectives and common nouns express qualities or properties of single things, whereas prepositions and verbs tend to express relations between two or more things.
Conjunctions, prepositions, and adverbs play indeed the vital part in all philosophies; and in contemporary idealism the words 'as' and 'quâ' bear the burden of reconciling metaphysical unity with phenomenal diversity.
In the gradual multiplication of parts of speech out of these primary ones in the differentiation of verbs into active and passive, of nouns into abstract and concrete in the rise of distinctions of mood, tense, person, of number and case in the formation of auxiliary verbs, of adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, articles in the divergence of those orders, genera, species, and varieties of parts of speech by which civilised races express minute modifications of meaning we see a change from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous.
Besides, we must not fail to observe, that Plato says that speech is composed OF these, not BY these; nor must we find fault with Plato for omitting conjunctions, prepositions, and the rest, any more than we should criticise a man who should say such a medicine is composed of wax and galbanum, because fire and utensils are omitted, without which it cannot be produced.
She used English as little as possible, trying to make them catch ideas in French without the medium of translation. Thus, in a beginners' class she would hold up a book and say, "le livre," then placing it on the table or under the table would extend her sentence to show the use of the prepositions.
To attain this end, and that he might nowhere perplex, or retard the reader or hearer, he made no scruple to add prepositions to his verbs, or to repeat the same conjunction several times; which, when omitted, occasion some little obscurity, but give a grace to the style. Those who used affected language, or adopted obsolete words, he despised, as equally faulty, though in different ways.
And he stirred up an evil plague through the army. Lest perchance they wish to decide the contest in the night, where the preposition is followed by, the accusative, not the genitive. Of whom he lies lamenting, instead of "concerning whom." Expecting whether he would bespeak him, instead of "speak to him." And other prepositions he in the same fashion changes or leaves out.
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