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.
Rhet., p. 169; Murray’s Gram., 364.  “They may all be taken together, as one name; as, ’The House of Commons.’”—­Merchant cor. “Intrusted to persons in whom the Parliament could confide.”—­Murray cor. “For ‘The Lords’ House,’ it were certainly better to say, ‘The House of Lords;’ and, in stead of ’The Commons’ vote,’ to say.  ‘The vote of the Commons.’”—­Id. and Priestley cor. “The House of Lords were so much influenced by these reasons.”—­Iidem. “Rhetoricians commonly divide them into two great classes; Figures of Words, and Figures of Thought.  The former, Figures of Words, are commonly called Tropes.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 337.  “Perhaps, Figures of Imagination, and Figures of Passion, might be a more useful distribution.”—­Ib. “Hitherto we have considered sentences, under the heads of Perspicuity, Unity, and Strength.”—­See Murray’s Gram., p. 356.

   “The word is then depos’d; and, in this view,
    You rule the Scripture, not the Scripture you.”—­Dryd. cor.

UNDER RULE XVI.—­OF NEEDLESS CAPITALS.

“Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.”—­FRIENDS’ BIBLE, AND SCOTT’S:  Matt., xiv, 27.  “Between passion and lying, there is not a finger’s breadth.”—­Mur. cor. “Can our solicitude alter the course, or unravel the intricacy, of human events?” “The last edition was carefully compared with the original manuscript.”—­Id. “And the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the king of the Jews?”—­SCOTT:  Matt., xxvii, 11.  “Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame, that say, Aha, aha!”—­SCOTT ET AL.:  Ps., lxx, 3.  “Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame, that say unto me, Aha, aha!”—­IIDEM:  Ps., xl, 15.  “What think ye of Christ? whose son is he?  They say unto him, The son of David.  He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord?”—­ALGER:  Matt., xxii, 42, 43.  “Among all things in the universe, direct your worship to the greatest.  And which is that? It is that Being who manages and governs all the rest.”—­Collier’s Antoninus cor. “As for modesty and good faith, truth and justice, they have left this wicked world and retired to heaven; and now what is it that can keep you here?”—­Idem.

   “If pulse of verse a nation’s temper shows,
    In keen iambics English metre flows.”—­Brightland cor.

PROMISCUOUS CORRECTIONS RESPECTING CAPITALS.

LESSON I.—­MIXED EXAMPLES.

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