"She is _like_ [_unto_] her brother." "They are
_unlike_ [_to_] him." "The kingdom of heaven is _like_ [_likened_ or
made _like_] _unto_ a householder."
The noun _worth_ has altogether dropped its associated words. "The
cloth is _worth_ ten dollars _a_ yard;" that is, The cloth is _of
the_ worth _of_ ten dollars _by the_ yard, or _for a, one_, or
_every yard_.
Some eminent philologists do not admit the propriety of supplying an
ellipsis after _like, worth, ere, but, except_, and _than_, but
consider them prepositions. See Anomalies, in the latter part of
this work.
REMARKS ON ADJECTIVES AND NOUNS.
A critical analysis requires that the adjective when used without its
noun, should be parsed as an adjective belonging to its noun understood;
as, "The _virtuous_ [_persons_] and the _sincere_ [_persons_] are always
respected;" "Providence rewards the _good_ [_people,_] and punishes the
_bad_ [_people._]"
"The _evil_ [_deed_ or _deeds_] that men do, lives after them;
"The _good_ [_deed_ or _deeds_] is oft-interred with their bones."
But sometimes the adjective, by its _manner_ of meaning, becomes a noun,
and has another adjective joined to it; as, "the chief _good_;" "The
vast _immense_ [_immensity_] of space.
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