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.
sensible of, a means to come at those that are not so.”—­Formey’s Belles-Lettres, Foreman’s Version, p. 113.  “Now, Who is not Discouraged, and Fears Want, when he has no money?”—­Divine Right of Tythes, p. 23.  “Which the Authors of this work, consider of but little or no use.”—­Wilbur and Livingston’s Gram., p. 6.  “And here indeed the distinction between these two classes begins not to be clear.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 152.  “But this is a manner which deserves not to be imitated.”—­Ib., p. 180.  “And in this department a person never effects so little, as when he attempts too much.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 173; Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 367.  “The verb that signifies merely being, is neuter.”—­Dr. Ash’s Gram., p. 27.  “I hope not much to tire those whom I shall not happen to please.”—­Rambler, No. 1.  “Who were utterly unable to pronounce some letters, and others very indistinctly.”—­Sheridan’s Elocution, p. 32.  “The learner may point out the active, passive, and neuter verbs in the following examples, and state the reasons why.”—­C.  Adams’s Gram., p. 27.  “These words are most always conjunctions.”—­S.  Barrett’s Revised Gram., p. 73.

   “How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue! 
    How sweet the periods, neither said, nor sung!”—­Dunciad.

LESSON VIII.—­CONJUNCTIONS.

“Who at least either knew not, nor loved to make, a distinction.”—­Dr. Murray’s Hist. of Europ.  Lang., i, 322.  “It is childish in the last degree, if this become the ground of estranged affection.”—­L.  Murray’s Key, ii, 228.  “When the regular or the irregular verb is to be preferred, p. 107.”—­Murray’s Index, Gram., ii, 296.  “The books were to have been sold, as this day.”—­Priestley’s E. Gram., p. 138.  “Do, an if you will.”—­Beauties of Shak., p. 195.  “If a man had a positive idea of infinite, either duration or space, he could add two infinites together.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 174.  “None shall more willingly agree and advance the same nor I.”—­EARL OF MORTON:  Robertson’s Scotland, ii, 428.  “That it cannot be but hurtful to continue it.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 192.  “A conjunction joins words and sentences.”—­Beck’s Gram., pp. 4 and 25.  “The copulative conjunction connects words and sentences together and continues the sense.”—­Frost’s El. of Gram., p. 42.  “The Conjunction Copulative serves to connect or continue a sentence, by expressing an addition, a supposition, a cause, &c.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, i, 123.  “All Construction is either true or apparent; or in other Words just and figurative.”—­Buchanan’s Syntax, p. 130; British Gram., 234.  “But the divine character is such that none but a divine hand could draw.”—­The Friend, Vol. v, p. 72.  “Who is so mad, that, on inspecting the heavens, is insensible of

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