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.
No. 476.  “When you have once got him to think himself made amends for his suffering, by the praise is given him for his courage.”—­Locke, on Ed.  Sec.115.  “In all matters where simple reason, and mere speculation is concerned.”—­Sheridan’s Elocution, p. 136.  “And therefore he should be spared the trouble of attending to any thing else, but his meaning.”—­Ib., p. 105.  “It is this kind of phraseology which is distinguished by the epithet idiomatical, and hath been originally the spawn, partly of ignorance, and partly of affectation.”—­Campbell’s Rhet. p. 185.  Murray has it—­“and which has been originally,” &c.—­Octavo Gram. i, 370.  “That neither the letters nor inflection are such as could have been employed by the ancient inhabitants of Latium.”—­Knight, Gr.  Alph. p. 13, “In cases where the verb is intended to be applied to any one of the terms.”—­Murray’s Gram.,, 150.  “But this people which know not the law, are accursed.”—­John, vii, 49.  “And the magnitude of the chorusses have weight and sublimity.”—­Music of Nature, p. 428.  “Dare he deny but there are some of his fraternity guilty?”—­Barclays Works, i, 327.  “Giving an account of most, if not all the papers had passed betwixt them.”—­Ib., i, 235.  “In this manner, both as to parsing and correcting, all the rules of syntax should be treated, proceeding regularly according to their order.”—­Murray’s Exercises, 12mo, p. x.  “Ovando was allowed a brilliant retinue and a body guard.”—­Sketch of Columbus.  “Is it I or he whom you requested to go?”—­Kirkham’s Gram., Key, p. 226.  “Let thou and I go on.”—­Bunyan’s P. P., p. 158.  “This I no-where affirmed; and do wholly deny.”—­Barclay’s Works, iii, 454.  “But that I deny; and remains for him to prove.”—­Ibid. “Our country sinks beneath the yoke; It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash Is added to her wounds.”—­SHAKSPEARE:  Joh.  Dict., w.  Beneath.  “Thou art the Lord who didst choose Abraham, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees.”—­Murray’s Key, ii, 189.  “He is the exhaustless fountain, from which emanates all these attributes, that exists throughout this wide creation.”—­Wayland’s Moral Science, 1st Ed., p. 155.  “I am he who have communed with the son of Neocles; I am he who have entered the gardens of pleasure.”—­Wright’s Athens, p. 66.

   “Such was in ancient times the tales received,
    Such by our good forefathers was believed.”
        —­Rowe’s Lucan, B. ix, l. 605.

LESSON XIV.—­TWO ERRORS.

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