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.

Whom should I meet the other day but my old friend!”—­Spect. cor. “Let not him boast that puts on his armour, but him that takes it off.”—­Barclay cor. “Let none touch it, but them who are clean.”—­Sale cor. “Let the sea roar, and the fullness thereof; the world, and them that dwell therein.”—­Ps. cor. “Pray be private, and careful whom you trust.”—­Mrs. Goffe cor. “How shall the people know whom to entrust with their property and their liberties?”—­J.  O. Taylor cor. “The chaplain entreated my comrade and me to dress as well as possible.”—­World cor. “And him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out.”—­John, vi, 37. “Whom, during this preparation, they constantly and solemnly invoke.”—­Hope of Is. cor. “Whoever or whatever owes us, is Debtor; and whomever or whatever we owe, is Creditor.”—­Marsh cor. “Declaring the curricle was his, and he should have in it whom he chose.”—­A.  Ross cor. “The fact is, Burke is the only one of all the host of brilliant contemporaries, whom we can rank as a first-rate orator.”—­Knickerb. cor. “Thus you see, how naturally the Fribbles and the Daffodils have produced the Messalinas of our time.”—­Dr. Brown cor. “They would find in the Roman list both the Scipios.”—­Id. “He found his wife’s clothes on fire, and her just expiring.”—­Observer cor. “To present you holy, and unblamable, and unreprovable in his sight.”—­Colossians, i, 22.  “Let the distributer do his duty with simplicity; the superintendent, with diligence; him who performs offices of compassion, with cheerfulness.”—­Stuart cor. “If the crew rail at the master of the vessel, whom will they mind?”—­Collier cor. “He having none but them, they having none but him”—­Drayton cor.

   “Thee, Nature, partial Nature, I arraign;
    Of thy caprice maternal I complain.”—­Burns cor.

    “Nor weens he who it is, whose charms consume
    His longing soul, but loves he knows not whom”—­Addison cor.

UNDER NOTE I.—­OF VERBS TRANSITIVE.

“When it gives that sense, and also connects sentences, it is a conjunction.”—­L.  Murray cor. “Though thou wilt not acknowledge thyself to—­be guilty, thou canst not deny the fact stated.”—­Id. “They specify some object, like many other adjectives, and also connect sentences.”—­Kirkham cor. “A violation of this rule tends so much to perplex the reader and obscure the sense, that it is safer to err by using too many short sentences.”—­L.  Murray cor. “A few exercises are subjoined to each important definition, for him [the pupil] to practise

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