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. “He was heir to the son of Louis the Sixteenth.”—­W.  Allen.  “The throne we honour is the people’s choice.”—­Rolla.  “An account of the proceedings of Alexander’s court.”—­Inst. “An excellent tutor for the child of a person of fashion!”—­Gil Blas cor. “It is curious enough, that this sentence of the Bishop’s is, itself, ungrammatical.”—­Cobbett cor. “The troops broke into the palace of the Emperor Leopold.”—­Nixon cor. “The meeting was called by desire of Eldon the Judge.”—­Id. “The occupation of Peter, John, and Andrew, was that of fishermen.”—­Murray’s Key, R. 10.  “The debility of the venerable president of the Royal Academy, has lately increased.”—­Maunder cor.

UNDER NOTE IV.—­NOUNS WITH POSSESSIVES PLURAL.

“God hath not given us our reason to no purpose.”—­Barclay cor. “For our sake, no doubt, this is written.”—­Bible cor. “Are not health and strength of body desirable for their own sake?”—­Harris and Murray cor. “Some sailors who were boiling their dinner upon the shore.”—­Day cor. “And they, in their turn, were subdued by others.”—­Pinnock cor. “Industry on our part is not superseded by God’s grace.”—­Arrowsmith cor. “Their health perhaps may be pretty well secured.”—­Locke cor. “Though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor.”—­See 2 Cor., viii, 9.  “It were to be wished, his correctors had been as wise on their part.”—­Harris cor. “The Arabs are commended by the ancients for being most exact to their word, and respctful to their kindred.”—­Sale cor. “That is, as a reward of some exertion on our part.”—­Gurney cor. “So that it went ill with Moses for their sake.”—­Ps. cor. “All liars shall have their part in the burning lake.”—­Watts cor. “For our own sake as well as for thine.”—­Pref. to Waller cor. “By discovering their ability to detect and amend errors.”—­L.  Murray cor.

   “This world I do renounce; and, in your sight,
    Shake patiently my great affliction off.”—­Shak. cor.

    “If your relenting anger yield to treat,
    Pompey and thou, in safety, here may meet.”—­Rowe cor.

UNDER NOTE V.—­POSSESSIVES WITH PARTICIPLES.

“This will encourage him to proceed without acquiring the prejudice.”—­Smith cor. “And the notice which they give of an action as being completed or not completed.”—­L.  Mur. et al. cor. “Some obstacle, or impediment, that prevents it from taking place.”—­Priestley and A. Mur. cor. “They have apostolical authority for so frequently urging the seeking of

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