And, coming to consider the peculiar qualities of moral actions, he introduces the distinction of perfect and imperfect rights, objecting to that of Grotius and the Roman lawyers, expletive and distributive justice.
No one ever entered more fully than Shakspeare into the character of this species of poetry, which admits of no expletive imagery, no merely ornamental line.
It is not a part of attributive, and hardly of expletive justice, nor is it, in its primary design, proportioned to the guilt of the criminal, but to the magnitude of the crime.
The jurists were accustomed to treat expletive justice, which consists in giving to every one what is strictly his own, separately from attributive justice, the equitable and right dispensation of all things according to desert.
After any antecedent introduced by the expletive it; as, "It is you that suffer.
This pronoun is a necessary expletive at the commencement of any sentence in which the verb is followed by a phrase or a clause which, by transposition, might be made the subject of the verb; as, "It is impossible to please every one.
And agin follerd a expletive that wuz still more forcible, and still more sinful.
And he added a expletive which I am fur from bein' urged to ever repeat.
The savagery with which my brother-in-law invested a very ordinary expletive was quite remarkable.
As my lips framed a particularly unpleasant expletive a bell rang sharply, and I turned to see a taxi, which had that moment been dismissed.
The words appeared to be more in the nature of an expletive than a practical comment on the situation.
The mildness of the expletive was proof that the full horror of the situation had not immediately come home to him.
Yet theexpletive was not offensive, spoken gently and merely emphasizing Lorry's attitude toward things feminine.
And with the brief expletive he condemned his disloyalty to the sprightly, slender Dorothy; the Peter Pan of the Blue Mesa; the dream girl of that idle noon at the Big Spring.
Besides, the expletive method has found many antagonists of weight: Simon, Williams, Tweedie, Allison and others have shown the danger of a general and indiscriminate use of it.
Association, which can do so much to influence and so little to regulate our dislikes, has insisted in linking this expletive with the classes that are taken to be the more sordid and malignant.
So far from this theory being well founded, we rather find the whole brood of Catholic oaths to have been swept away by the besom of the Reformation long before this expletive had raised its head.
To denote an expletive by its initial letter followed with a dash is really to attract undue attention to that which the writer acknowledges himself ashamed of printing.
The expletive that it now behoves us to consider is one which has never been adequately treated in a book.
This oath by the cabbage became in time the favourite expletive of Ionia, and having winged its way westwards, still lingers in the shape of the exclamation Cavolo!
But until the expletive that is now passing under our consideration was fairly launched upon society, no great measure of success can be said to have crowned their endeavours.
In short, we shall always find that the sonorous expletive of recent days is nothing else than the once deliberative oath of Christian piety.
Pope's line is rendered intolerable by its elliptical and inverted language, and the unmeaning expletive "still.
There is, doubtless, some advantage in the shortness of the lines, which there is little temptation to load with expletive epithets.
He uses the expletive do very frequently; and, though he lived to see it almost, universally ejected, was not more careful to avoid it in his last compositions than in his first.
It is used as a sort of emphaticexpletive carrying accent or emphasis:--'Will you keep that farm?
An infinitive in the predicate is often in apposition with the expletivesubject it.
Noun clauses with that are common in the predicate when the expletive it is the grammatical subject (ยง 120, 2).
The expletive it is used as the grammatical subject, and a that-clause follows the passive verb.
By the aid of the expletive it, transpose five subject clauses in Lesson 71.
If the foregoing opinion of the origin of a in such phrases, should not be deemed satisfactory, we may perhaps ascribe its origin to a mere custom of forming expletive sounds in the transition from one word to another.
Such expletivewords load the mind with a chain of particular ideas which are not essential to the discourse.
The Duchess, when she was accused of strong language, had not minded it much; but her feelings were hurt when a redundant expletive was attributed to her.
Then," said the Duke, "why use a redundant expletive against your own relative?
An expletiveof surprise, vexation, or emphasis, or, ironically, of negation.
Why is sometimes used as an interjection or an expletive in expression of surprise or content at a turn of affairs; used also in calling.
The scorn of the expletive drew from the very depths of furious contempt.
Only the expletive he placed before the last word revealed his own genuine annoyance and Kate prudently asked no further questions.
Do as you please," retorted Van Horn, but with a stiff expletive that irritated Barb still further.
