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.

   “Each burns alike, who can, or cannot write,
    Or with a rival’s or an eunuch’s spite.”—­Pope, on Crit., l. 30.

LESSON II.—­NOUNS, OR CASES.

“And there is stamped upon their Imaginations Idea’s that follow them with Terror and Affrightment.”—­Locke, on Ed., p. 251.  “There’s not a wretch that lives on common charity, but’s happier than me.”—­VENICE PRESERVED:  Kames, El. of Crit., i, 63.  “But they overwhelm whomsoever is ignorant of them.”—­Common School Journal, i,115.  “I have received a letter from my cousin, she that was here last week.”—­Inst., p. 129.  “Gentlemens Houses are seldom without Variety of Company.”—­Locke, on Ed., p. 107.  “Because Fortune has laid them below the level of others, at their Masters feet.”—­Ib., p. 221.  “We blamed neither John nor Mary’s delay.”—­Nixon’s Parser, p. 117.  “The book was written by Luther the reformer’s order.”—­Ib., p. 59.  “I saw on the table of the saloon Blair’s Sermons, and somebody else (I forget who’s) sermons, and a set of noisy children.”—­Lord Byron’s Letters.  “Or saith he it altogether for our sakes?”—­1 Cor., ix, 10.  “He was not aware of the duke’s being his competitor.”—­Sanborn’s Gram., p. 190.  “It is no condition of a word’s being an adjective, that it must be placed before a noun.”—­FOWLE:  ib., p. 190.  “Though their Reason corrected the wrong Idea’s they had taken in.”—­Locke, on Ed., p. 251.  “It was him, who taught me to hate slavery.”—­Morris, in Congress, 1839.  “It is him and his kindred, who live upon the labour of others.”—­Id., ib. “Payment of Tribute is an Acknowledgment of his being King to whom we think it Due.”—­Right of Tythes, p. 161.  “When we comprehend what we are taught.”—­Ingersoll’s Gram., p. 14.  “The following words, and parts of words, must be taken notice of.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 96.  “Hence tears and commiseration are so often made use of.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 269.  “JOHN-A-NOKES, n. s. A fictitious name, made use of in law proceedings.”—­Chalmers, Eng.  Dict. “The construction of Matter, and Part taken hold of.”—­B.  F. Fisk’s Greek Gram., p. x.  “And such other names, as carry with them the Idea’s of some thing terrible and hurtful.”—­Locke, on Ed., p. 250.  “Every learner then would surely be glad to be spared the trouble and fatigue”—­Pike’s Hebrew Lexicon, p. iv. “’Tis not the owning ones Dissent from another, that I speak against.”—­Locke, on Ed., p 265.  “A man that cannot Fence will be more careful to keep out of Bullies and Gamesters Company, and will not be half so apt to stand upon Punctilio’s.”—­Ib., p. 357.  “From such Persons it is, one may learn more in one Day, than in a Years rambling from one Inn to another.”—­Ib., p. 377.  “A long syllable is generally considered

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