Note 26 — WORDS.

I doubt much of the propriety of the following examples: “The rules of our holy Religion, from which we are infinitely swerved.” Tillotson, Vol. I. Serm. 27. “The whole obligation of that law and covenant, which God made with the Jews, was also ceased.” Ib. Vol. II. Serm. 52. “Whose number was now amounted to three hundred.” Swift, Contests and Dissensions, Chap. 3. Neuter Verbs are sometimes employed very improperly as Actives: “I think, it by no means a fit and decent thing to vie Charities, and to erect the reputation of one upon the ruins of another.” Atterbury, Vol. I. Serm. 2.