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.
of the glen.”—­SPENSER:  Joh.  Dict., w.  Glen.  “The man has spoke, and still speaks.”—­Ash’s Gram., p. 54.  “For you have but mistook me all this while.”—­Beauties of Shak., p. 114.  “And will you rent our ancient love asunder.”—­Ib., p. 52.  “Mr. Birney has plead the inexpediency of passing such resolutions.”—­ Liberator, Vol. xiii, p. 194.  “Who have wore out their years in such most painful Labours.”—­Littleton’s Dict., Pref.  “And in the conclusion you were chose probationer.”—­Spectator, No. 32.

   “How she was lost, took captive, made a slave;
    And how against him set that should her save.”—­Bunyan.

UNDER NOTE XII.—­VERBS CONFOUNDED.

“But Moses preferred to wile away his time.”—­Parker’s English Composition, p. 15.  “His face shown with the rays of the sun.”—­Calvin’s Inst., 4to, p. 76.  “Whom they had sat at defiance so lately.”—­ Bolingbroke, on Hist., p. 320.  “And when he was set, his disciples came unto him.”—­Matt., v, 1.  “When he was set down on the judgement-seat.”—­ Ib., xxvii, 19.  “And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall, and were set down together, Peter sat down among them.”—­Luke, xxii, 55.  “So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?”—­John, xiii, 12.  “Even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.”—­Rev., iii, 21.  “We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens.”—­ Heb., viii, 1.  “And is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”—­Ib., xii, 2.[402] “He sat on foot a furious persecution.”—­ Payne’s Geog., ii, 418.  “There layeth an obligation upon the saints, to help such.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 389.  “There let him lay.”—­Byron’s Pilgrimage, C. iv, st. 180.  “Nothing but moss, and shrubs, and stinted trees, can grow upon it.”—­Morse’s Geog., p. 43.  “Who had lain out considerable sums purely to distinguish themselves.”—­Goldsmith’s Greece, i, 132.  “Whereunto the righteous fly and are safe.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 146.  “He raiseth from supper, and laid aside his garments.”—­Ib., i, 438.  “Whither—­Oh! whither shall I fly?”—­Murray’s English Reader, p. 123.  “Flying from an adopted murderer.”—­Ib., p. 122.  “To you I fly for refuge.”—­Ib., p. 124.  “The sign that should warn his disciples to fly from approaching ruin.”—­Keith’s Evidences, p. 62.  “In one she sets as a prototype for exact imitation.”—­Rush, on the Voice, p. xxiii.  “In which some only bleat, bark, mew, winnow, and bray, a little better than others.”—­Ib., p. 90.  “Who represented to him the unreasonableness of being effected with such unmanly fears.”—­Rollin’s

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