Note 66 — SENTENCES.

Examples of impropriety in the use of the Preposition in Phrases of this kind: “Your character, which I, or any other writer, may now value ourselves by [upon] drawing.” Swift, Letter on the English Tongue. “You have bestowed your favours to [upon] the most deserving persons.” Ibid. “Upon such occasions as fell into [under] their cognisance,” Swift, Contests and Dissensions &c. Chap. 3. “That variety of factions into [in] which we are still engaged.” Ibid. Chap. 5. “The utmost extent of power pretended [to] by the Commons.” Ibid. Chap. 3.⸺“Accused the ministers for [of] betraying the Dutch.” Swift, Four last years of the Queen, Book ii. “Ovid, whom you accuse for [of] luxuriancy of verse.” Dryden, on Dram. Poesy. “Neither the one nor the other shall make me swerve out of [from] the path, which I have traced to myself.” Bolingbroke, Letter to Wyndham, p. 252. “They are now reconciled by a zeal for their cause to what they could not be prompted [to] by a concern for their beauty.” Addison, Spect. Nᵒ 81. “If policy can prevail upon [over] force.” Addison, Travels, p. 62. “Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.” Matt. xxiii. 24. διυλιζοντες, “which strain out, or take a gnat out of the liquor by straining it:” the impropriety of the Preposition has wholly destroyed the meaning of the Phrase. Observe also, that the Noun generally requires after it the same Preposition as the Verb from which it is formed: “It was perfectly in compliance to [with] some persons, for whose opinion I have great deference.” Swift, Pref. to Temple’s Memoirs. “Not from any personal hatred to them, but in justification to [of] the best of Queens.” Swift, Examiner, Nᵒ 23. In the last example, the Verb being Transitive and requiring the Objective Case, the Noun formed from it seems to require the Possessive Case, or its Preposition, after it. Or perhaps he meant to say, “in justice to the best of Queens.” “No discouragement for the authors to proceed.” Tale of a Tub, Preface. “A strict observance after times and fashions.” Ibid. Sect. ii. So the Noun Aversion, (that is, a turning away,) requires the Preposition from after it; and does not properly admit of to, for, or towards, which are often used with it.