Antecedents are predecessors.

9.To make this matter more clear, it may be proper to observe further, that what I call the order of the sense, is not always that order of the words which is fittest to express the sense of a whole period; and that the true antecedent is that word to which the preposition, and its object would naturally be subjoined, were there nothing to interfere with such an arrangement.

The antecedent of que is vautours.

When the antecedent is a collective noun conveying the idea of plurality, the Pronoun must agree with it in the plural number.

Here the true antecedent is masterpieces, and not the word one; but was executed is singular, and "by any hand" implies but one agent.

You cannot speak merely for yourself; your antecedents, your existing influence, are a pledge to us that what you may determine will be the determination of a multitude.

"When the antecedent is a child, that is elegantly used in preference to who, whom, or which.

Here the true antecedent is masterpieces, and not the word one; but was executed is singular, and "by any hand" implies but one agent.

"] "In the first two examples the antecedent is person, or something equivalent; in the last it is thing.

The antecedent must be piezas, although it is too remote to be obvious.