The Grammar of English Grammars eBook

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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.
accused of himself being idle.”—­Felch’s Comp.  Gram., p. 52.  “Our meeting is generally dissatisfied with him so removing.”—­Wm. Edmondson.  “The spectacle is too rare of men’s deserving solid fame while not seeking it.”—­Prof.  Bush’s Lecture on Swedenborg.  “What further need was there of an other priest rising?”—­See Key.

UNDER NOTE XI.—­REFERENCE OF PARTICIPLES.

“Viewing them separately, different emotions are produced.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 344.  “But leaving this doubtful, another objection occurs.”—­Ib., ii, 358.  “Proceeding from one particular to another, the subject grew under his hand.”—­Ib., i, 27.  “But this is still an interruption, and a link of the chain broken.”—­Ib., ii, 314.  “After some days hunting, Cyrus communicated his design to his officers.”—­Rollin, ii, 66.  “But it is made, without the appearance of making it in form.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 358.  “These would have had a better effect disjoined thus.”—­Ib., p. 119; Murray’s Gram., i, 309.  “An improper diphthong has but one of the vowels sounded.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 9; Alger’s, 12; Merchant’s, 9; Smith’s, 118; Ingersoll’s, 4.  “And being led to think of both together, my view is rendered unsteady.”—­ Blair’s Rhet., p. 95; Murray’s Gram., 302; Jamieson’s Rhet., 66.  “By often doing the same thing, it becomes habitual.”—­Murray’s Key, p. 257.  “They remain with us in our dark and solitary hours, no less than when surrounded with friends and cheerful society.”—­Ib., p. 238.  “Besides shewing what is right, the matter may be further explained by pointing out what is wrong.”—­Lowth’s Gram., Pref., p. viii.  “The former teaches the true pronunciation of words, comprising accent, quantity, emphasis, pause, and tone.”—­Murray’s Gram., Vol., i, p. 235.  “Persons may be reproved for their negligence, by saying; ‘You have taken great care indeed.’”—­Ib., i, 354.  “The words preceding and following it, are in apposition to each other.”—­Ib., ii, p. 22.  “Having finished his speech, the assembly dispersed.”—­Cooper’s Pract.  Gram., p. 97.  “Were the voice to fall at the close of the last line, as many a reader is in the habit of doing.”—­ Kirkham’s Elocution, p. 101.  “The misfortunes of his countrymen were but negatively the effects of his wrath, by depriving them of his assistance.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 299.  “Taking them as nouns, this construction may be explained thus.”—­Grant’s Latin Gram., p. 233.  “These have an active signification, those which come from neuter verbs being excepted.”—­Ib., p. 233.  “From the evidence of it not being universal.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 84.  “And this faith will continually grow, by acquainting ourselves with our own nature.”—­Channing’s Self-Culture, p. 33.  “Monosyllables

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