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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 Excerpt: ...s'envoler--empty, vain--vanishes. Sac-, le reveil fait evanouir--holdfast, tenir F. le mieux--slip away, nous echappent. (4.) We, on--to make the world forget, se faire oublier--that we may present but, pour ne produire que--wish, vouloir--impress, persuader. 672. Lequel m., laquelle f., lesquels m. pl., lesquelles f. pl., and dont, relate both to persons and things. But lequel, &c. ought nevet, to be used, either as a subject or object, except to avoid ambiguity; for whenever the sense is evident, qui or que must be used. 673. Lequel, laquelle, lesquels, lesquelles, with the preposition de, is either followed or preceded by a noun, which it unites to the principal sentence. If it be followed, dont is preferable to duquel m., de laquelle f., desquels m. pl., desquelles f. pl., both for persons and things. Thus: La Tamise dont le Ut, and not de laquelle Le prince dont la protection, and not duquel. 674. If lequel, laquelle, lesquels, lesquelles, be preceded by the noun, we can only make use of duquel, de laquelle, desquels, desquelles, when speaking of things; as, La Tamise, dans le lit de laquelle: and it is always better to use it when speaking of persons; as, Le prince a la protection duquel: de qui would not be so well. 675. Lequel, laquelle, lesquels, lesquelles, with the prepo sition a, when speaking of things, requires auquel m., a laquelle f., auxquels m. pl., auxquelles f. pl.; as, Les places auxquelles il aspire: but we ought to prefer a qui wnen speaking of persons; as, Les rois a qui on doit obeir. Aux quels would not do so well. 676. So the relative qui, preceded by a preposition, never relates to things, but to persons only. EXERCISE. 1. The grand principle on-which the whole turns is, that all the world is..
