The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-08-07
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.rse f,ea,ra, Pres6yteridn appears THIS
xreep AZ nj, eight-page raper. We nave ave
heretofore expressed our high estimate 9.
enc abilities OF DR.. Sorthall aud our oe'lei
ahat h,s associate was worthy Of him. we
sr,s slad 10 SEQ the evidences which they
fprnish TO the world that the Presbyterian
public this writer thinks 1t the best OF az
Inolics) is pleased with the new editors !:
The paper-is improved In appearance anu
hardness. We feel that 1t is bound 20 oc .
success.
We write this notice In utter disregard OF
tho rules OF grammar because our ir'eno
Or southalI has dropped bis dinosau-
rians and mega,heriums and all those
cher things that he knows all about and
we nothing about, and published dictum
In English grammar, which we know all
about and be knows nothing about. HOW
ever. as Falssafr said to the widow, we
forgive him; and to show that TACT as wen
rs the additional facts that we arc NOT aiFaiu
to let the public see.bis dictum, ana tnat nc
does not know what he Is talking about,
and because DR.. Jeter will have no chahse
before next week to reproduce Soutbaifs
heretical say.so, we give 1t In full mere anu
now, with this comment only. that tue Few
men ZONE in thousand) who know what Is
right are those whose opinion we vaiue
ON this question. The Central Presbyterian
says:
priusard and DR.. Jeter have been dispu-
o1yon sentences
in fhe RELIGIOUS Herald which the OtSpdtch
nronounces ungrammatical. What is gram.
mar? We have considered the questions at
issue. and it seems TO us that DR.. deter mas
been right throughout. DR.. Jeter wrote !:
g In gestures Byoadus, when at hls ease, eH-
ceiled any preacherthat have ever known"
The DisDotch declared this sentence to De
ungrammatical, and said DR.. Jeter ought 10
have said "Broadlls excelled any DINER
preacher have ever known"
Now. with all respect for the Dispatch,
we insist that DR.. Jeter's language IS cor
rect, and more elegant than the sentence as
rendered by the Dispatch. "Other" is OF
course implied in DR.. Jeter's sentence, ana
the man who undertakes to stop every crack
and hole in conversation or writing becomes
simply bore-which Drinkard is very iar
from being. He talks like other people,
and acrites as il he never heard OF grammar,
when he is not solving problem.
..Zetelle, in the preparation OF peer,
steak, excels the world !"-is not that good
English? "He beats the world ;" lis not
that good English? Would you say, =" ne
beats the other world"! No, the DaSpdtcn
would testify reply; but We would say
"He beats the rest Of the world! But
your exclamation has now lost It's Vigor ,
the person who utters an exclamation Oh
that sort is admonished by some inner sense
of nropriety that he must put the thing
ouiekly and energetically il he would con-
.yey his thought. "He beats The rest OF
the world - is true and expresses the fact
in view; but it is insipid and pointless, and
8 man OF taste would rather be silent than
express himself in that way. .-.
Is it not correct TO say, No one knows
what she has suffered"y Does good gram
mar compel you to say, 4" No one eIcept
herself knows what she has suffered? Is
1t not correct to say, GO have never known
any man who equalled Broadus in ges-
turesH? 1t would be wrong to say, 8
have never known any other man VINO
eQualed Broadus in gestures
I'VE should like to know what would have
become of Shakespeare il the Daily Dis.
patch had been published in London during
the Elizabethan erai He would have stop
ped writing.
You must indulge sometimes in ellipsis
you cannot stop to explain everything
The Frenchman complained OF this In
Shakespeare. He said he did not like ShaEs
peare-he say "Von horse! Won horse
mine kingdom for Won horse!" but I" bt
NO say vat for he want Vid de horse; ht
leave everything TO the ian-ag-i.na ci-on"
p. S.-Dr. Sout6all looks so wise and ha:
so large Uranium that we are almos
afraid to trust this article to print. Eli
doesn't look as il he enjoyed badinage, O.
could even tolerate it. But we'll risk it
1.-THE last cit" is inelesant; but we'r
writing this article secatndun Southall)