464. Illustrations of "expect _of_," "expect _from:_"--

464. Illustrations of "expect _of_," "expect _from:_"--

[Sidenote: "_Expect_ of."]

What do I expect _of_ Dublin?--_Punch._

That is more than I expected _of_ you.--SCOTT.

_Of_ Doctor P. nothing better was to be expected.--POE.

Not knowing what might be expected _of_ men in general.--G. ELIOT.

[Sidenote: "_Expect_ from."]

She will expect more attention _from_ you, as my friend.--WALPOLE.

There was a certain grace and decorum hardly to be expected _from_ a man.--MACAULAY.

I have long expected something remarkable _from_ you.--G. ELIOT.

465. "Part _with_" is used with both persons and things, but "part _from_" is less often found in speaking of things.

Illustrations of "part _with_," "part _from_:"--

[Sidenote: "_Part_ with."]

He was fond of everybody that he was used to, and hated to part _with_ them.--AUSTEN.

Cleveland was sorry to part _with_ him.--BULWER.

I can part _with_ my children for their good.--DICKENS.

I part _with_ all that grew so near my heart.--WALLER.

[Sidenote: "_Part_ from."]

To part _from_ you would be misery.--MARRYAT.

I have just seen her, just parted _from_ her.--BULWER.

Burke parted _from_ him with deep emotion.--MACAULAY.

His precious bag, which he would by no means part _from_.--G. ELIOT.

[Sidenote: _Kind_ in _you_, _kind_ of _you_.]

466. With words implying behavior or disposition, either _of_ or _in_ is used indifferently, as shown in the following quotations:--

[Sidenote: Of.]

It was a little bad _of_ you.--TROLLOPE.

How cruel _of_ me!--COLLINS.

He did not think it handsome _of_ you.--BULWER.

But this is idle _of_ you.--TENNYSON.

[Sidenote: In.]

Very natural _in_ Mr. Hampden.--CARLYLE.

It will be anything but shrewd _in_ you.--DICKENS.

That is very unreasonable _in_ a person so young.--BEACONSFIELD.

I am wasting your whole morning--too bad _in_ me.--BULWER.

Miscellaneous Examples for Correction.

1. Can you imagine Indians or a semi-civilized people engaged on a work like the canal connecting the Mediterranean and the Red seas?

2. In the friction between an employer and workman, it is commonly said that his profits are high.

3. None of them are in any wise willing to give his life for the life of his chief.

4. That which can be done with perfect convenience and without loss, is not always the thing that most needs to be done, or which we are most imperatively required to do.

5. Art is neither to be achieved by effort of thinking, nor explained by accuracy of speaking.