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.
of a dollar.”—­Id. “The blowing-up of the Fulton at New York, was a terrible disaster.”—­Id. “The elders also, and the bringers-up of the children, sent to Jehu.”—­ALGER, FRIENDS, ET AL.:  2 Kings, x, 5.  “Not with eyeservice as menpleasers.”—­Col., iii, 22.  “A good-natured and equitable construction of cases.”—­Ash cor. “And purify your hearts, ye double-minded.”—­James, iv, 8.  “It is a mean-spirited action to steal; i.e., To steal is a mean-spirited action.”—­A.  Murray cor. “There is, indeed, one form of orthography which is akin to the subjunctive mood of the Latin tongue.”—­Booth cor. “To bring him into nearer connexion with real and everyday life.”—­Philological Museum, Vol. i, p. 459.  “The commonplace, stale declamation of its revilers would be silenced.”—­Id. cor. “She [Cleopatra] formed a very singular and unheard-of project.”—­Goldsmith cor. “He [William Tell] had many vigilant, though feeble-talented and mean-spirited enemies.”—­R.  Vaux cor. “These old-fashioned people would level our psalmody,” &c.—­Gardiner cor. “This slow-shifting scenery in the theatre of harmony.”—­Id. “So we are assured from Scripture itself.”—­Harris cor. “The mind, being disheartened, then betakes itself to trifling.”—­R.  Johnson cor.Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them.”—­Bible cor. “Tarry we ourselves how we will.”—­W.  Walker cor. “Manage your credit so, that you need neither swear yourself, nor seek a voucher.”—­Collier cor. “Whereas song never conveys any of the abovenamed sentiments.”—­Dr. Rush cor. “I go on horseback.”—­Guy cor. “This requires purity, in opposition to barbarous, obsolete, or new-coined words.”—­Adam cor. “May the ploughshare shine.”—­White cor.Whichever way we consider it.”—­Locke cor.

   “Where’er the silent e a place obtains,
    The voice foregoing, length and softness gains.”—­Brightland cor.

RULE II.—­SIMPLES.

“It qualifies any of the four parts of speech above named.”—­Kirkham cor. “After a while they put us out among the rude multitude.”—­Fox cor. “It would be a shame, if your mind should falter and give in.”—­Collier cor. “They stared a while in silence one upon an other.”—­Johnson cor. “After passion has for a while exercised its tyrannical sway.”—­Murray cor. “Though set within the same general frame of intonation.”—­Rush cor. “Which do not carry any of the natural vocal signs of expression.”—­Id. “The measurable constructive powers of a few associable

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