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.
meaning, as adjectives qualify nouns [and describe things.]”—­Id. “The third person singular of verbs, terminates in s or es, like the plural number of nouns.”—­Id. “He saith further:  that, ’The apostles did not baptize anew such persons as had been baptized with the baptism of John.’”—­Barclay cor. “For we who live,”—­or, “For we that are alive, are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake.”—­Bible cor. “For they who believe in God, must be careful to maintain good works.”—­Barclay cor. “Nor yet of those who teach things that they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.”—­Id. “So as to hold such bound in heaven as they bind on earth, and such loosed in heaven as they loose on earth.”—­Id. “Now, if it be an evil, to do any thing out of strife; then such things as are seen so to be done, are they not to be avoided and forsaken?”—­Id. “All such as do not satisfy themselves with the superfices of religion.”—­Id. “And he is the same in substance, that he was upon earth,—­the same in spirit, soul, and body.”—­Id. “And those that do not thus, are such, as the Church of Rome can have no charity for.”  Or:  “And those that do not thus, are persons toward whom the Church of Rome can have no charity.”—­Id. “Before his book, he places a great list of what he accounts the blasphemous assertions of the Quakers.”—­Id. “And this is what he should have proved.”—­Id. “Three of whom were at that time actual students of philosophy in the university.”—­Id. “Therefore it is not lawful for any whomsoever * * * to force the consciences of others.”—­Id.Why were the former days better than these?”—­Bible cor. “In the same manner in which”—­or, better, “Just as—­the term my depends on the name books.”—­Peirce cor.Just as the term HOUSE depends on the [preposition to, understood after the adjective] NEAR.”—­Id. “James died on the day on which Henry returned.”—­Id.

LESSON II.—­DECLENSIONS.

“OTHER makes the plural OTHERS, when it is found without its substantive.”—­Priestley cor. “But his, hers, ours, yours, and theirs, have evidently the form of the possessive case.”—­Lowth cor. “To the Saxon possessive cases, hire, ure, eower, hira, (that is, hers, ours, yours, theirs,) we have added the s, the characteristic of the possessive case of nouns.”—­Id. “Upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours.”—­Friends cor. “In this place, His is clearly preferable either to Her or to Its.”—­Harris cor. “That roguish leer of yours

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