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.
is nearly excluded.”—­Ib., p. 212.  “Who spares the aggressor’s life even to the endangering his own.”—­Ib., p. 227.  “Who advocates the taking the life of an aggressor.”—­Ib., p. 229.  “And thence up to the intentionally and voluntary fraudulent.”—­Ib., p. 318. “’And the contention was so great among them, that they departed asunder, one from another.’—­Acts, xv. 39.”—­Rev. Matt.  Harrison’s English Lang., p. 235.  “Here the man is John, and John is the man; so the words are the imagination and the fancy, and the imagination and the fancy are the words.”—­Harrison’s E. Lang., p. 227.  “The article, which is here so emphatic in the Greek, is lost sight of in our translation.”—­Ib., p. 223.  “We have no less than thirty pronouns.”—­Ib., p. 166.  “It will admit of a pronoun being joined to it.”—­Ib., p. 137.  “From intercourse and from conquest, all the languages of Europe participate with each other.”—­Ib., p. 104.  “It is not always necessity, therefore, that has been the cause of our introducing terms derived from the classical languages.”—­Ib., p. 100.  “The man of genius stamps upon it any impression that he pleases.”—­Ib., p. 90.  “The proportion of names ending in son preponderate greatly among the Dano-Saxon population of the North.”—­Ib., p. 43.  “As a proof of the strong similarity between the English and the Danish languages.”—­Ib., p. 37.  “A century from the time that Hengist and Horsa landed on the Isle of Thanet.”—­Ib., p. 27.

   “I saw the colours waving in the wind,
    And they within, to mischief how combin’d.”—­Bunyan.

LESSON III.—­VARIOUS RULES.

“A ship expected:  of whom we say, she sails well.”—­Ben Jonson’s Gram., Chap. 10.  “Honesty is reckoned little worth.”—­Paul’s Accidence, p. 58.  “Learn to esteem life as it ought.”—­Economy of Human Life, p. 118.  “As the soundest health is less perceived than the lightest malady, so the highest joy toucheth us less deep than the smallest sorrow.”—­Ib., p. 152.  “Being young is no apology for being frivolous.”—­Whiting’s Elementary Reader, p. 117.  “The porch was the same width with the temple.”—­Milman’s Jews, Vol. i. p. 208.  “The other tribes neither contributed to his rise or downfall.”—­Ib., Vol. i. p. 165.  “His whole laws and religion would have been shaken to its foundation.”—­Ib., Vol. i. p. 109.  “The English has most commonly been neglected, and children taught only the Latin syntax.”—­Lily’s Gram., Pref., p. xi.  “They are not taken notice of in the notes.”—­Ib., p. x.  “He walks in righteousness, doing what he would be done to.”—­S.  Fisher’s Works, p. 14.  “They stand independently on the rest of the sentence.”—­Ingersoll’s Gram., p. 151.  “My uncle, with his

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