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.

UNDER NOTE II.—­ARTICLES REQUIRE OF.

“The mixing them makes a miserable jumble of truth and fiction.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 357.  “The same objection lies against the employing statues.”—­Ib., ii, 358.  “More efficacious than the venting opulence upon the Fine Arts.”—­Ib., Vol. i, p. viii.  “It is the giving different names to the same object.”—­Ib., ii, 19.  “When we have in view the erecting a column.”—­Ib., ii, 56.  “The straining an elevated subject beyond due bounds, is a vice not so frequent.”—­Ib., i, 206.  “The cutting evergreens in the shape of animals is very ancient.”—­Ib., ii, 327.  “The keeping juries, without meet, drink or fire, can be accounted for only on the same idea.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 301.  “The writing the verbs at length on his slate, will be a very useful exercise.”—­Beck’s Gram., p. 20.  “The avoiding them is not an object of any moment.”—­Sheridan’s Lect., p. 180.  “Comparison is the increasing or decreasing the Signification of a Word by degrees.”—­British Gram., p. 97.  “Comparison is the Increasing or Decreasing the Quality by Degrees.”—­Buchanan’s English Syntax, p. 27.  “The placing a Circumstance before the Word with which it is connected, is the easiest of all Inversion.”—­Ib., p. 140.  “What is emphasis?  It is the emitting a stronger and fuller sound of voice,” &c.—­Bradley’s Gram., p. 108.  “Besides, the varying the terms will render the use of them more familiar.”—­Alex.  Murray’s Gram., p. 25.  “And yet the confining themselves to this true principle, has misled them!”—­Horne Tooke’s Diversions, Vol. i, p. 15.  “What is here commanded, is merely the relieving his misery.”—­Wayland’s Moral Science, p. 417.  “The accumulating too great a quantity of knowledge at random, overloads the mind instead of adorning it.”—­Formey’s Belles-Lettres, p. 5.  “For the compassing his point.”—­Rollin’s Hist., ii, 35.  “To the introducing such an inverted order of things.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 95.  “Which require only the doing an external action.”—­Ib., p. 185.  “The imprisoning my body is to satisfy your wills.”—­GEO. FOX:  Sewel’s Hist., p. 47.  “Who oppose the conferring such extensive command on one person.”—­Duncan’s Cicero, p. 130.  “Luxury contributed not a little to the enervating their forces.”—­Sale’s Koran, p. 49.  “The keeping one day of the week for a sabbath.”—­Barclay’s Works, i. 202.  “The doing a thing is contrary to the forbearing of it.”—­Ib., i, 527.  “The doubling the Sigma is, however, sometimes regular.”—­Knight, on the Greek Alphabet, p. 29.  “The inserting the common aspirate too, is improper.”—­Ib., p. 134.  “But in Spenser’s time the pronouncing the ed seems already to have been something of an archaism.”—­Philological Museum, Vol. i, p. 656.  “And to the

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