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.
reconciling the effect of their verses on the eye.”—­Ib., i, 659.  “When it was not in their power to hinder the taking the whole.”—­Brown’s Estimate, ii, 155.  “He had indeed given the orders himself for the shutting the gates.”—­Ibid. “So his whole life was a doing the will of the Father.”—­Penington, iv, 99.  “It signifies the suffering or receiving the action expressed.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 37.  “The pretended crime therefore was the declaring himself to be the Son of God.”—­West’s Letters, p. 210.  “Parsing is the resolving a sentence into its different parts of speech.”—­Beck’s Gram., p. 26.

UNDER NOTE II.—­ADJECTIVES REQUIRE OF.

“There is no expecting the admiration of beholders.”—­Baxter.  “There is no hiding you in the house.”—­Shakspeare.  “For the better regulating government in the province of Massachusetts.”—­British Parliament.  “The precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government.”—­J.  Q. Adams’s Rhet., Vol. ii, p. 6. “[This state of discipline] requires the voluntary foregoing many things which we desire, and setting ourselves to what we have no inclination to.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 115.  “This amounts to an active setting themselves against religion.”—­Ib., p. 264.  “Which engaged our ancient friends to the orderly establishing our Christian discipline.”—­N.  E. Discip., p. 117.  “Some men are so unjust that there is no securing our own property or life, but by opposing force to force.”—­Brown’s Divinity, p. 26.  “An Act for the better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject.”—­Geo. III, 31st.  “Miraculous curing the sick is discontinued.”—­Barclay’s Works, iii, 137.  “It would have been no transgressing the apostle’s rule.”—­Ib., p. 146.  “As far as consistent with the proper conducting the business of the House.”—­Elmore, in Congress, 1839.  “Because he would have no quarrelling at the just condemning them at that day.”—­Law and Grace, p. 42.  “That transferring this natural manner—­will ensure propriety.”—­Rush, on the Voice, p. 372.  “If a man were porter of hell-gate, he should have old turning the key.”—­Macbeth, Act ii, Sc. 3.

UNDER NOTE II.—­POSSESSIVES REQUIRE OF.

“So very simple a thing as a man’s wounding himself.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 97; Murray’s Gram., p. 317.  “Or with that man’s avowing his designs.”—­Blair, p. 104; Murray, p. 308; Parker and Fox, Part III, p. 88.  “On his putting the question.”—­Adams’s Rhet., Vol. ii, p. 111.  “The importance of teachers’ requiring their pupils to read each section many times over.”—­Kirkham’s Elocution, p. 169.  “Politeness is a kind of forgetting one’s self in order to be agreeable to others.”—­Ramsay’s Cyrus.  “Much, therefore, of the merit,

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