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. “They had promised to accept whosoever (or any one who) should be born in Wales.”—­Croker cor. “We sorrow not as they that have no hope.”—­Maturin cor. “If he suffers, he suffers as they that have no hope.”—­Id. “We acknowledge that he, and he only, hath been our peacemaker.”—­Gratton cor. “And what can be better than he that made it?”—­Jenks cor. “None of his school-fellows is more beloved than he.”—­Cooper cor. “Solomon, who was wiser than they all.”—­Watson cor. “Those who the Jews thought were the last to be saved, first entered the kingdom of God.”—­Tract cor. “A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than both.”—­Bible cor. “A man of business, in good company, is hardly more insupportable, than she whom they call a notable woman.”—­Steele cor. “The king of the Sarmatians, who we may imagine was no small prince, restored to him a hundred thousand Roman prisoners.”—­Life of Anton. cor. “Such notions would be avowed at this time by none but rosicrucians, and fanatics as mad as they.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 203.  “Unless, as I said, Messieurs, you are the masters, and not I.”—­Hall cor. “We had drawn up against peaceable travellers, who must have been as glad as we to escape.”—­Burnes cor. “Stimulated, in turn, by their approbation and that of better judges than they, she turned to their literature with redoubled energy.”—­Quarterly Rev. cor. “I know not who else are expected.”—­Scott cor. “He is great, but truth is greater than we all.”  Or:  “He is great, but truth is greater than any of us.”—­H.  Mann cor.. “He I accuse has entered.”  Or, by ellipsis of the antecedent, thus:  “Whom I accuse has entered.”—­Fowler cor.; also Shakspeare.

   “Scotland and thou did each in other live.”—­Dryden cor.

    “We are alone; here’s none but thou and I.”—­Shak. cor.

    “I rather would, my heart might feel your love,
    Than my unpleas’d eye see your courtesy.”—­Shak. cor.

    “Tell me, in sadness, who is she you love?”—­Shak. cor.

    “Better leave undone, than by our deeds acquire
    Too high a fame, when he we serve’s away.”—­Shak. cor.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE III; OF APPOSITION.

“Now, therefore, come thou, let us make a covenant, thee and me.”—­Bible cor. “Now, therefore, come thou, we will make a covenant, thou and I.”—­Variation corrected.  “The word came not to Esau, the hunter, that stayed not at home; but to Jacob, the plain man, him that dwelt in tents.”—­Penn cor. “Not to every man, but to the man of

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