The Grammar of English Grammars eBook

Goold Brown
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 4,149 pages of information about The Grammar of English Grammars.

The Grammar of English Grammars eBook

Goold Brown
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 4,149 pages of information about The Grammar of English Grammars.
and person of those in the first?”—­Smith’s Productive Gram., p. 19.  “There seems to be a familiarity and want of dignity in it.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 150.  “It has been often asked, what is Latin and Greek?”—­Literary Convention, p. 209.  “For where does beauty and high wit But in your constellation meet?”—­Hudibras, p. 134.  “Thence to the land where flows Ganges and Indus.”—­Paradise Lost, B. ix, l. 81.  “On these foundations seems to rest the midnight riot and dissipation of modern assemblies.”—­Brown’s Estimate, ii, 46.  “But what has disease, deformity, and filth, upon which the thoughts can be allured to dwell?”—­Johnson’s Life of Swift, p. 492.  “How is the gender and number of the relative known?”—­Bullions, Practical Lessons, p. 32.

   “High rides the sun, thick rolls the dust,
    And feebler speeds the blow and thrust.”—­Sir W. Scott.

UNDER NOTE I.—­CHANGE THE CONNECTIVE.

“In every language there prevails a certain structure and analogy of parts, which is understood to give foundation to the most reputable usage.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 90.  “There runs through his whole manner, a stiffness and affectation, which renders him very unfit to be considered a general model.”—­Ib., p. 102.  “But where declamation and improvement in speech is the sole aim”—­Ib., p. 257.  “For it is by these chiefly, that the train of thought, the course of reasoning, and the whole progress of the mind, in continued discourse of all kinds, is laid open.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 103.  “In all writing and discourse, the proper composition and structure of sentnences is of the highest importance.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 101.  “Here the wishful look and expectation of the beggar naturally leads to a vivid conception of that which was the object of his thoughts.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 386.  “Who say, that the outward naming of Christ, and signing of the cross, puts away devils.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 146.  “By which an oath and penalty was to be imposed upon the members.”—­Junius, p. 6.  “Light and knowledge, in what manner soever afforded us, is equally from God.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 264.  “For instance, sickness and untimely death is the consequence of intemperance.”—­Ib., p. 78.  “When grief, and blood ill-tempered vexeth him.”—­Beauties of Shakspeare, p. 256.  “Does continuity and connexion create sympathy and relation in the parts of the body?”—­Collier’s Antoninus, p. 111.  “His greatest concern, and highest enjoyment, was to be approved in the sight of his Creator.”—­Murray’s Key, p. 224.  “Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?”—­2 Sam, iii, 38.  “What is vice and wickedness?  No rarity, you may depend on it.”—­Collier’s Antoninus, p. 107.  “There is also the fear and apprehension of it.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 87.  “The apostrophe and s, (’s,) is an abbreviation for is, the termination of the old English genitive.”—­Bullions, E. Gram., p. 17. “Ti, ce, and ci, when followed by a vowel, usually has the sound of sh; as in partial, special, ocean.”—­Weld’s Gram., p. 15.

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