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pofition TO, marked as an addition to the preceding. " Wifdom 

 *' he has, and courage additional to his wifdom," &c . In this ac- 

 ceptation of the word TO, the object which it governs, or to 

 which it marks fomething elfe as added, is frequently not ex- 

 preffed y or not formally ftated along with the prepofition, The 

 reafon is, that it readily occurs to the mind, being mentioned 

 in the context immediately before. Thus DENHAM might, with 

 equal propriety, have faid, 



" Wifdom he has, and courage TOO," Esfr. 



This mode of expreflion would have been more concife and 

 equally intelligible as the other, " Wifdom he has, and cou- 

 ' rage TO bis uvifdom" &c. 



NOT only is the object governed by TO omitted, when it is 

 reprefented by a noun fubftantive in the context, but alfo when 

 it is involved in a propofition. Thus Mr POPE, 



" Let thofe eyes that view 



The daring crime, behold the vengeance TOO." 



So " He made him prifoner, and killed him TOO." In the one 

 example, the circumftance of beholding the vengeance is ftated as 

 an addition to the viewing the crime ; and, in the other, the killing 

 him is ftated as an addition to the making him a prifoner. In both 

 examples, the object governed by TOO is not formally ftated ; 

 and, in both alfo, it is involved in a preceding propofition. It 

 is the amount of that propofition taken abftraclly, or as a Noun 

 fubflantive. 



ALTHOUGH all thefe ufes of the word TO are really one and 

 the fame, differing in nothing but this, that the object: govern- 

 ed by it is, in fome of them, exprejjed^ and, in others, not expref- 

 fed\ yet the grammarians have confidered them as different, 

 and have claffed TO, in the one cafe, with the Prepofitions, and, 

 in the other, with the Conjunctions, or with the Adverbs. This 

 circumftance, together perhaps with the accented pronunciation 



p 2 o'f 



