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.
Friend, vii, 409.  “Pliny informs us, that this stone was the size of a cart.”—­Ibid. “Seneca was about twenty years of age in the fifth year of Tiberius, when the Jews were expelled Rome.”—­Seneca’s Morals, p. 11.  “I was prevented[438] reading a letter which would have undeceived me.”—­Hawkesworth, Adv., No. 54.  “If the problem can be solved, we may be pardoned the inaccuracy of its demonstration.”—­Booth’s Introd., p. 25.  “The army must of necessity be the school, not of honour, but effeminacy.”—­Brown’s Estimate, i. 65.  “Afraid of the virtue of a nation, in its opposing bad measures.”—­Ib., i, 73.  “The uniting them in various ways, so as to form words, would be easy.”—­Music of Nature, p. 34.  “I might be excused taking any more notice of it.”—­Watson’s Apology, p. 65.  “Watch therefore; for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.”—­Matt., xxiv, 42.  “Here, not even infants were spared the sword.”—­M’Ilvaine’s Lectures, p. 313.  “To prevent men turning aside to corrupt modes of worship.”—­Calvin’s Institutes, B. I, Ch. 12, Sec. 1.  “God expelled them the Garden of Eden.”—­Burder’s Hist., Vol. i, p. 10.  “Nor could he refrain expressing to the senate the agonies of his mind”—­Art of Thinking, p. 123.  “Who now so strenuously opposes the granting him any new powers.”—­Duncan’s Cicero, p. 127.  “That the laws of the censors have banished him the forum.”—­Ib., p. 140.  “We read not that he was degraded his office any other way.”—­Barclay’s Works, iii, 149.  “To all whom these presents shall come, Greeting.”—­Hutchinson’s Mass., i, 459.  “On the 1st, August, 1834.”—­British Act for the Abolition of Slavery.

   “Whether you had not some time in your life
    Err’d in this point which now you censure him.”—­Shak.

UNDER NOTE IV.—­OF NEEDLESS PREPOSITIONS.

“And the apostles and elders came together to consider of this matter.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 481.  “And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.”—­Acts, xv, 6.  “Adjectives in our Language have neither Case, Gender, nor Number; the only Variation they have is by Comparison.”—­Buchanan’s Gram., p. 27. “’It is to you, that I am indebted for this privilege;’ that is, ‘to you am I indebted;’ or, ’It is to you to whom I am indebted.’”—­Sanborn’s Gram., p. 232. “Books is a noun, of the third person, plural number, of neuter gender,”—­ Ingersoll’s Gram., p. 15. “Brother’s is a common substantive, of the masculine gender, the third person, the singular number, and in the possessive case.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, 229. “Virtue’s is a common substantive, of the third person, the singular number, and in the possessive case.”—­Ib., i, 228.  “When the authorities on one side greatly preponderate, it is in vain to oppose the

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