Note 22 — Chapter VII
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Perhaps the most curious example, too long for quotation, is a passage near the end of the last epistle, in which he sums up his moral system by a series of predicates for which it is impossible to find any subject. One couplet runs—
Never elated whilst one man's depress'd, Never dejected whilst another's blest.
It is impressive, but it is quite impossible to discover by the rules of grammatical construction who is to be never elated and depressed.