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.
the pupil of Cimabue, was not unworthy his master.”—­Literary History, p. 268.  “It is a new, and picturesque, and glowing image, altogether worthy the talents of the great poet who conceived it.”—­Kirkham’s Elocution, p. 100.  “If the right does exist, it is paramount his title.”—­Angell, on Tide Waters, p. 237.  “The most appropriate adjective should be placed nearest the noun.”—­Sanborn’s Gram., p. 194.  “Is not Mr. Murray’s octavo grammar more worthy the dignified title of a ‘Philosophical Grammar?’”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 39.  “If it shall be found unworthy the approbation and patronage of the literary public.”—­Perley’s Gram., p. 3.  “When the relative is preceded by two words referring to the same thing, its proper antecedent is the one next it.”—­Bullions’s E. Gram., p. 101.  “The magistrates commanded them to depart the city.”—­Sewel’s Hist., p. 97.  “Mankind act oftener from caprice than reason.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, 272.  “It can never view, clearly and distinctly, above one object at a time.”—­Jamieson’s Rhet., p. 65.  “The theory of speech, or systematic grammar, was never regularly treated as a science till under the Macedonian kings.”—­Knight, on Greek Alph., p. 106.  “I have been at London a year, and I saw the king last summer.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 198.  “This is a crucifying of Christ, and a rebelling of Christ.”—­Waldenfield.  “There is another advantage worthy our observation.”—­Bolingbroke, on Hist., p. 26.  “Certain conjunctions also require the subjunctive mood after them, independently on the sense.”—­Grant’s Lat.  Gram., p. 77.  “If the critical reader will think proper to admit of it at all.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 191.  “It is the business of an epic poet to copy after nature.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 427.  “Good as the cause is, it is one from which numbers have deserted.”—­ Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 222.  “In respect of the images it will receive from matter.”—­Spectator, No. 413.  “Instead of following on to whither morality would conduct it.”—­Dymond’s Essays, p. 85.  “A variety of questions upon subjects on which their feelings, and wishes, and interests, are involved.”—­Ib., p. 147.  “In the Greek, Latin, Saxon, and German tongues, some of these situations are termed CASES, and are expressed by additions to the Noun instead of by separate words and phrases.”—­Booth’s Introd., p. 33.  “Every teacher is bound during three times each week, to deliver a public lecture, gratis.”—­Howitt’s Student-Life in Germany, p. 35.  “But the professors of every political as well as religious creed move amongst each other in manifold circles.”—­Ib., p. 113.

EXERCISE X.—­PROMISCUOUS.

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