This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1822 edition. Excerpt: ... me and tham are here in the Saxon dative case. Me. thinks, it seems to me, mini videtur. RULE II. A name, a nominative case or a sentence joined with a participle of the present tense, may stand in construction without a verb, forming the Case absolute, or Clause independent; as "Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place." John 5. 13. Here multitude, the name, joined with being, stands without a verb. " By memory we conceive heat or light, yellow or sweet, the object being removed." Locke 2. 10, " I have, notwithstanding this discouragement, attempted a dictionary of the English language." Johnson's Preface. " Whatever substance begins to exist, it must, during in existence, necessarily be the same." Locke 2. 27.-28. " The penalty shall be fine and imprisonment, any law or custom to the contrary notwithstanding." The latter phraseology is peculiar to the technical law style. In no other case, does notwithstanding follow the sentence. But this position makes no difference in the true construction, which is, " any law or custom to the contrary not opposing"--the real clause independent. It is very common, when this participle agrees with a number of words, or a whole clause, to omit the whole except the participle; and in this use of notwithstanding, we have a striking proof of the value of abbreviations in language. For example; " Moses said, let no man leave of it till the morning. Notwithstanding, they hearkened not unto Moses." Ex. 16. 20. Here notwithstanding stands without the clause to which it belongs; to complete the sense in words, it would be necessary to repeat the whole preceding clause or the substance of it--" Moses said, let no man leave of it until the morning. Notwithstanding this command of Moses, ...