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.
“One hope no sooner dies in us but another rises up.”—­Spect., No. 535.  “This rule implies nothing else but the agreement of an adjective with a substantive.”—­Adams Latin Gram., p. 156; Gould’s, 129.  “There can be no doubt but the plan of exercise pointed out at page 132, is the best that can be adopted.”—­Blair’s Gram., p. viii.  “The exertions of this gentleman have done more than any other writer on the subject.”—­DR. ABERCROMBIE:  Rec. in Murray’s Gram., Vol. ii, p. 306.  “No accidental nor unaccountable event ought to be admitted.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 273.  “Wherever there was much fire and vivacity in the genius of nations.”—­Jamieson’s Rhet., p. 5.  “I aim at nothing else but your safety.”—­Walker’s Particles, p. 90.  “There are pains inflicted upon man for other purposes except warning.”—­Wayland’s Moral Sci., p. 122.  “Of whom we have no more but a single letter remaining.”—­Campbell’s Pref. to Matthew.  “The publisher meant no more but that W. Ames was the author.”—­Sewel’s History, Preface, p. xii.  “Be neether bashful, nor discuver uncommon solicitude.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 403.  “They put Minos to death, by detaining him so long in a bath, till he fainted.”—­ Lempriere’s Dict. “For who could be so hard-hearted to be severe?”—­ Cowley.  “He must neither be a panegyrist nor a satirist.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 353.  “No man unbiassed by philosophical opinions, thinks that life, air, or motion, are precisely the same things.”—­Dr. Murray’s Hist. of Lang., i, 426.  “Which I had no sooner drank, but I found a pimple rising in my forehead.”—­ADDISON:  Sanborn’s Gram., p. 182.  “This I view very important, and ought to be well understood.”—­Osborn’s Key, p. 5.  “So that neither emphases, tones, or cadences should be the same.”—­Sheridan’s Elocution, p. 5.

   “You said no more but that yourselves must be
    The judges of the scripture sense, not we.”—­Dryden, p. 96.

EXERCISE IX.—­PREPOSITIONS.

“To be entirely devoid of relish for eloquence, poetry, or any of the fine arts, is justly construed to be an unpromising symptom of youth.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 14.  “Well met, George, for I was looking of you.”—­Walker’s Particles, p. 441.  “There is another fact worthy attention.”—­Channing’s Emancip., p. 49.  “They did not gather of a Lord’s-day, in costly temples.”—­The Dial, No. ii, p. 209.  “But certain ideas have, by convention between those who speak the same language, been agreed to be represented by certain articulate sounds.”—­Adams’s Rhet., ii, 271.  “A careful study of the language is previously requisite, in all who aim at writing it properly.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 91.  “He received his reward in a small place, which he enjoyed to his death.”—­Notes to the Dunciad, B. ii, l. 283.  “Gaddi,

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