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avbo if is, is pleonaftic or expletive, and is 
Rot neceflary to the fenfe, which would be 
perfectly conveyed if the pafflage ran thus: 
** but every perfon does not perceive who 
governs thefe powerful caufes.”” 
Another miitake, as J apprehend, oc- 
eurs in page 116 of the Grammar, fe- 
wenth edition, where Mr. Murray direSis 
the number of a verb to be changed, 
Without any real change in its grammati. 
cal relations. ‘* Fhe phrafe, as foilsws, 
(fays Mr. M.) forms an imperfonal verb ; 
and therefore it fhovid always be in the 
fincular number, as, ¢ The rules are as 
follows.” Similar to the fcriptural ex- 
preffion, ‘As becometh women profefling 
godlinefs:* i.e. as ct becometh. If we 
give the fentence a different turn, and in- 
flead of as, fay fuch as, the verb is no. 
longer an imperfonal. The pronoue fuch 
is che nominative, whofe number is de- 
termined by its antecedent: as, ‘* The 
rules were tuch as follow.” 
I frall fay nothing of the inapplicability 
of the illuitration taken from the Scrip- 
tures, where the preceding fentence is the 
nominative (o becomeih; but proceed to 
ebdferve, that the imperfonal, as it is called, 
es follows, is merely an abbreviation of 
eonfiruétion, and is ufed im the fingular 
mumber to exprefs the phrafe ‘is that 
which fcllows;”? and in the plural, to ex- 
prefs ‘¢are thefe which follow.”” Now, 
as the antecedent in Mr. Murray’s exam- 
pies is in the plural number, the verb 
which relates to it fhould, of courfe, be in 
the fame number ; nor can I comviehend 
why the introduction of the term fuch 
fhould make fuch a difference. If fach is 
the nominative in the latier fentence, ac- 
cording tothe fame mode of analyfis, rules 
fhouki be the neminative in the former: 
but I conceive that neither of thefe words 
Is the proper neminative to the verb /ol- 
bas. For, Itake it, thefe examples are 
to be refolved thus: 1ft, “* The rules are 
the‘fe whicn follow.”? 2d, “* The rules are 
fueh rules as thefe are which follow.”” If 
this be a corre&t refolution of Mr. M_’s 
infiances, then the ftri€t nominative in 
each is evdich, underftood ; and this re- 
Jative equaily refers, in both examples, to 
the antecedent ruies, which, of courfe, 
commancs a plural verb. 
I am induced, Mr. Editor, to trouble 
you with thefe fight remarks, without 
pretending to be intimately acquainted 
with the performances from which the fub- 
jes of my criticif{m are extracted, be- 
eaufe a friend cf mine, whofe grammagi- 
eal knowledge is extremely correét, and 
who highly approves of Mr. Murray’s 
books, has been inclined to fuffer a modett 
Coliana, 
[ Dec. 1, 
deference to Mr. M.’s opinion, to prevail 
over her better judgment, in regard to the 
points above-mentioned: and it is but 
juftice to Mr. Murray, to give him an op- 
portunity of preferving his authority over 
his diiciples, by any notice which he may 
think proper to take of What has been 
urged againft him, by 
Shrew/bury, 
Od. 19, 1804. 
Your’s, &e. 
j. W. 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
COLIANA. 
Confifting of SELECTIONS of the curious 
MS. bequeaibed by the late MR- COLE 
~ fo the BRITISH MUSEUM, and lately 
opened. side Phin’ 
LETTER from PRINCE EDWARD, afters 
‘ward EDWARD VI. to the QUEEN his 
MOTHER-IN-LAW, probably CATHE- 
RINE PARR. 
Hee TASSE miraberis me tam fepe ad 
te {cribere, idque tam brevi tempore, 
regina nobiliffima, et mater chariflima, fed 
eadem ratione potes mirari me erga te ofs 
ficium facere. Hoc autem nunc facio li- 
bentius, quia eft mihi idoneus nuncius fer- 
vus meus, et ideo non potui non dare ad 
te literas ad teftiicandum ftudium meum 
ergate. Optime valeas, regina nobliflima. 
Hualdonie*, vicefimo quarto Maij. 
Tibi obfequentifiimus filius, 
Edvuardus Princeps, 
Mllufirifime Regine 
lMiatri mee. . 
Original Letter from Richard Duke of 
Yorke (Earl of Cambridge) to King 
Henry V. imploring forgivene{s : probably 
ariiten in 1415, juj? before Richard 
and Lord Scrope «were bebeaded for 
confpiring to raife the Earl of Marche 
to the throne. j 
Myn mot dredfulle and fovereyne lege 
lord i Richard York zowre humble fub- 
gyt and verrey lege man befeke zow of 
grace of al maner offenfes wych y have done 
or afientyd to in heny kynde by fteryng of 
odyr folke eggyng me therto where in y 
wote wel i have hyll offendyd to zowre 
hynefle, befechyng zow at the reverence of 
god, that zow lyke to take me in to the 
handys of zowre mereyfulle and pytovie 
giace thenkyng ace well of zowre gret 
goodnefle my lege lord my fulle truft is 
that zee wylle have con{yderacyoun thauth 
that myn, perfone be of none valwe ZowF 
hye goodneffe where God hath fette zow 
in fo hye eftat to every lege man that to 
zow lengyth plentevoufely to geve grace 
that zow lyke to accept zys myn fymple 
* Hunfdor Com. Hertford. 
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