Heaven hides from brutes what men, from men what spirits know.
He that formed the ear, can he not hear?
He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
NOTE 1. _Learn_, in the first of the preceding examples, is a
transitive verb, because the action passes over from the nom. _you_
understood, to _the rest of the sentence_ for its object: RULE 24.
In the next example, _that my indiscretions should reach my
posterity_, is a part of a sentence put as the nominative to the
verb _wounds_, according to the same Rule.
2. The noun _sacrifice_, in the third example, is nom. after the
active-intransitive verb _fell_: RULE 22. The noun _proprietors_, in
the next sentence, is in the objective case, and put by apposition
with _senate_ and _people_: RULE 7, or governed by _consider_,
understood, according to RULE 35.
3. In the fifth example, _what_, following _proved_, is a compound
relative. _Thing_, the antecedent part, is in the nom. case after
_to be_, understood, and put by apposition with _he_, according to
RULE 21, and NOTE. _Which_, the relative part, is in the obj.
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