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 X.—­THE LEADING WORD IN SENSE.

“This would preclude the possibility of a nouns’ or any other word’s ever being in the possessive case.”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 338.  “A great part of our pleasure arises from the plan or story being well conducted.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 18, “And we have no reason to wonder at this being the case.”—­Ib., p. 249.  “She objected only, as Cicero says, to Oppianicus having two sons by his present wife.”—­Ib., p. 274.  “The Britons being subdued by the Saxons, was a necessary consequence of their having called in these Saxons, to their assistance.”—­Ib., p. 329.  “What he had there said, concerning the Saxons expelling the Britons, and changing the customs, the religion, and the language of the country, is a clear and good reason for our present language being Saxon rather than British.”—­Ib., p. 230.  “The only material difference between them, besides the one being short and the other being prolonged, is, that a metaphor always explains itself by the words that are connected with it.”—­Ib., p. 151; Murray’s Gram., p. 342.  “The description of Death’s advancing to meet Satan, on his arrival.”—­Rush, on the Voice, p. 156.  “Is not the bare fact of God being the witness of it, sufficient ground for its credibility to rest upon?”—­Chalmers, Serm., p. 288.  “As in the case of one entering upon a new study.”—­Beattie’s Moral Science, i, 77.  “The manner of these affecting the copula is called the imperative mode.”—­BP.  WILKINS:  Lowth’s Gram., p. 43.  “We are freed from the trouble, by our nouns having no diversity of endings.”—­Buchanan’s Syntax, p. 20.  “The Verb is rather indicative of the actions being doing, or done, than the time when, but indeed the ideas are undistinguishable.”—­Booth’s Introd., p. 69.  “Nobody would doubt of this being a sufficient proof.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 66.  “Against the doctrine here maintained, of conscience being, as well as reason, a natural faculty.”—­Beattie’s M. Sci., i, 263.  “It is one cause of the Greek and English languages being much more easy to learn, than the Latin.”—­Bucke’s Classical Gram., p. 25.  “I have not been able to make out a solitary instance of such being the fact.”—­Liberator, x, 40.  “An angel’s forming the appearance of a hand, and writing the king’s condemnation on the wall, checked their mirth, and filled them with terror.”—­Wood’s Dict., w.  Belshazzar.  “The prisoners’ having attempted to escape, aroused the keepers.”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 357.  “I doubt not, in the least, of this having been one cause of the multiplication of divinities in the heathen world.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 155.  “From the general rule he lays down, of the verbs being the parent word of all language.”—­Diversions of Purley, Vol. i, p. 227.  “He was

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