Note 60 — SENTENCES.
Reading edition
“Which rule, if it had been observed, a neighbouring Prince would have wanted a great deal of that incense, which hath been offered up to him by his adorers.” Atterbury, Vol. I. Serm. 1. The Pronoun it is here the Nominative Case to the Verb observed; and which rule is left by itself, a Nominative Case without any Verb following it. This manner of expression, however improper, is very common. It ought to be, “If this rule had been observed, &c.”