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.
constituents.”—­Id. “Before each accented syllable or emphatic monosyllabic word.”—­Id. “One should not think too favourably of one’s self.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, 154.  “Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you?”—­2 Cor., xiii, 5.  “I judge not my own self, for I know nothing of my own self.”—­See 1 Cor., iv, 3.  “Though they were in such a rage, I desired them to tarry a while.”—­Josephus cor.A, in stead of an, is now used before words beginning with u long.”—­Murray cor. “John will have earned his wages by next new year’s day.”—­Id. “A new year’s gift is a present made on the first day of the year.”—­Johnson et al. cor. “When he sat on the throne, distributing new year’s gifts.”—­Id. “St. Paul admonishes Timothy to refuse old wives’ fables.”—­See 1 Tim., iv, 7.  “The world, take it all together, is but one.”—­Collier cor. “In writings of this stamp, we must accept of sound in stead of sense.”—­Murray cor. “A male child, a female child; male descendants, female descendants.”—­Goldsbury et al. cor.Male servants, female servants; male relations, female relations.”—­Felton cor.

   “Reserved and cautious, with no partial aim,
    My muse e’er sought to blast an other’s fame.”—­Lloyd cor.

RULE III.—­THE SENSE.

“Our discriminations of this matter have been but four-footed instincts.”—­Rush cor. “He is in the right, (says Clytus,) not to bear free-born men at his table.”—­Goldsmith cor. “To the short-seeing eye of man, the progress may appear little.”—­The Friend cor. “Knowledge and virtue are, emphatically, the stepping-stones to individual distinction.”—­Town cor. “A tin-peddler will sell tin vessels as he travels.”—­Webster cor. “The beams of a wooden house are held up by the posts and joists.”—­Id. “What you mean by future-tense adjective, I can easily understand.”—­Tooke cor. “The town has been for several days very well-behaved.”—­Spectator cor. “A rounce is the handle of a printing-press.”—­Webster cor. “The phraseology [which] we call thee-and-thouing [or, better, thoutheeing,] is not in so common use with us, as the tutoyant among the French.”—­Walker cor. “Hunting and other outdoor sports, are generally pursued.”—­Balbi cor. “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy-laden.”—­Scott et al. cor. “God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son to save it.”—­See ALGER’S BIBLE, and FRIENDS’:  John, iii, 16.  “Jehovah is a prayer-hearing

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