No one has freed himself from
the influence of early associations that are in a careless moment some
vicious colloquialism may not creep into his discourse. A Violation of
every principle of grammar may be defended, if such inadvertencies are
to be erected into authority. To whatever is the prevailing, the
habitual, usage of a majority of the best writers and speakers the
grammarian should bow without question; but not to the accidental slips
of even the greatest writers, or to the common usage of the unreflecting
and the uncultivated.]
2. She was neither better bred nor wiser than you or me. [See previous
Footnote.]
3. Who servest thou under? [See previous footnote.]
4. It was not them, it was her.
5. Its being me should make no difference.
6. Him and me are of the same age.
7. Them that study grammar talk no better than me.
8. I am not so old as her; she is older than me by ten years.
9. He was angry, and me too.
10. Who will go? Me.
11. It isn't for such as us to sit with the rulers of the land.
12. Not one in a thousand could have done it as well as him.
13. Him being a stranger, they easily misled him.
14. Oh, happy us! surrounded thus with blessings.
15. It was Joseph, him whom Pharaoh promoted.
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