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.

   “This beauty sweetness always must comprise,
    Which from the subject, well express’d, will rise.”—­Brightland cor.

RULE XIV.—­COMPOUNDS.

“The glory of the Lord shall be thy rear-ward.”—­SCOTT, ALGER:  Isa., lviii, 8.  “A mere van-courier to announce the coming of his master.”—­Tooke cor. “The party-coloured shutter appeared to come close up before him.”—­Kirkham cor. “When the day broke upon this handful of forlorn but dauntless spirits.”—­Id. “If, upon a plumtree, peaches and apricots are engrafted, nobody will say they are the natural growth of the plumtree.’—­Berkley cor. “The channel between Newfoundland and Labrador is called the Straits of Belleisle.”—­Worcester cor. “There being nothing that more exposes to the headache:”—­or, (perhaps more accurately,) “headake.”—­Locke cor. “And, by a sleep, to say we end the heartache:”—­or, “heartake.”—­Shak. cor. “He that sleeps, feels not the toothache:”—­or, “toothake.”—­Id. “That the shoe must fit him, because it fitted his father and grandfather.”—­Phil.  Museum cor. “A single word misspelled [or misspelt] in a letter is sufficient to show that you have received a defective education.”—­C.  Bucke cor. “Which misstatement the committee attributed to a failure of memory.”—­Professors cor. “Then he went through the Banqueting-House to the scaffold.”—­Smollet cor. “For the purpose of maintaining a clergyman and a schoolmaster.”—­Webster cor. “They however knew that the lands were claimed by Pennsylvania.”—­Id. “But if you ask a reason, they immediately bid farewell to argument.”—­Barnes cor. “Whom resist, steadfast in the faith.”—­Alger’s Bible.  “And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine.”—­Id. “Beware lest ye also fall from your own steadfastness.”—­Ib.Galiot, or Galliot, a Dutch vessel carrying a main-mast and a mizzen-mast.”—­Webster cor. “Infinitive, to overflow; Preterit, overflowed; Participle, overflowed.”—­Cobbett cor. “After they have misspent so much precious time.”—­Brit.  Gram. cor. “Some say, ’two handsful;” some, ’two handfuls; and others, ‘two handful.’  The second expression is right.”—­G.  Brown. “Lapful, as much as the lap can contain.”—­Webster cor.Dareful, full of defiance.”—­Walker cor. “The road to the blissful regions is as open to the peasant as to the king.”—­Mur. cor.Misspell is misspelled [or misspelt] in every dictionary which I have seen.”—­Barnes cor.Downfall; ruin, calamity, fall from rank or state.”—­Johnson

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