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.
cor. “And with this cruelty you are chargeable in some measure yourself.”—­Collier cor. “Mothers would certainly resent it, as judging it proceeded from a low opinion of the genius of their sex.”—­Brit.  Gram. cor.Tithable, subject to the payment of tithes; Salable, vendible, fit for sale; Losable, possible to be lost; Sizable, of reasonable bulk or size.”—­See Webster’s Dict. “When he began this custom, he was puting and very tender.”—­Locke cor.

   “The plate, coin, revenues, and movables,
    Whereof our uncle Gaunt did stand possess’d.”—­Shak. cor.

RULE X.—­FINAL E.

Diversely; in different ways, differently, variously.”—­See Walker’s Dict. “The event thereof contains a wholesome instruction.”—­Bacon cor. “Whence Scaliger falsely concluded that Articles were useless.”—­Brightland cor. “The child that we have just seen is wholesomely fed.”—­Murray cor. “Indeed, falsehood and legerdemain sink the character of a prince.”—­Collier cor. “In earnest, at this rate of management, thou usest thyself very coarsely.”—­Id. “To give them an arrangement and a diversity, as agreeable as the nature of the subject would admit.”—­Murray cor. “Alger’s Grammar is only a trifling enlargement of Murray’s little Abridgement.”—­G.  Brown.  “You ask whether you are to retain or to omit the mute e in the words, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, lodgement, adjudgement, and prejudgement.”—­Red Book cor. “Fertileness, fruitfulness; fertilely, fruitfully, abundantly.”—­Johnson cor.Chastely, purely, without contamination; Chasteness, chastity, purity.”—­Id.Rhymester, n.  One who makes rhymes; a versifier; a mean poet.”—­Walker, Chalmers, Maunder, Worcester.  “It is therefore a heroical achievement to disposess [sic—­KTH] this imaginary monarch.”—­Berkley cor. “Whereby is not meant the present time, as he imagines, but the time past.”—­R.  Johnson cor. “So far is this word from affecting the noun, in regard to its definiteness, that its own character of definiteness or indefiniteness, depends upon the name to which it is prefixed.”—­Webster cor.

   “Satire, by wholesome lessons, would reclaim,
    And heal their vices to secure their fame “—­Brightland cor.

RULE XI.—­FINAL Y.

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