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.
was any other sovereign so much beloved by his people.”—­L.  Murray cor. “Nothing else ever affected her so much as this misconduct of her child.”—­Id. et al. cor. “Of all the figures of speech, no other comes so near to painting as does metaphor.”—­Blair et al. cor. “I know no other writer so happy in his metaphors as is Mr. Addison.”—­Blair cor. “Of all the English authors, none is more happy in his metaphors than Addison.”—­Jamieson cor. “Perhaps no other writer in the world was ever so frugal of his words as Aristotle.”—­Blair and Jamieson cor. “Never was any other writer so happy in that concise and spirited style, as Mr. Pope.”—­Blair cor. “In the harmonious structure and disposition of his periods, no other writer whatever, ancient or modern, equals Cicero.”—­Blair and Jamieson cor. “Nothing else delights me so much as the works of nature.”—­L.  Mur. cor. “No person was ever more perplexed than he has been to-day.”—­Id. “In no other case are writers so apt to err, as in the position of the word only.”—­Maunder cor. “For nothing is more tiresome than perpetual uniformity.”—­Blair cor.

   “Naught else sublimes the spirit, sets it free,
    Like
sacred and soul-moving poesy.”—­Sheffield cor.

UNDER NOTE VII.—­EXTRA COMPARISONS.

“How much better are ye than the fowls!”—­Bible cor. “Do not thou hasten above the Most High.”—­Esdras cor. “This word, PEER, is principally used for the nobility of the realm.”—­Cowell cor. “Because the same is not only most generally received, &c.”—­Barclay cor. “This is, I say, not the best and most important evidence.”—­Id. “Offer unto God thanksgiving, and pay thy vows unto the Most High.”—­The Psalter cor. “The holy place of the tabernacle of the Most High.”—­Id. “As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first great lesson that should be taught them, is, to admire frugality.”—­Goldsmith cor. “More general terms are put for such as are more restricted.”—­Rev. J. Brown cor. “This, this was the unkindest cut of all.”—­Enfield’s Speaker, p. 353.  “To take the basest and most squalid shape.”—­Shak. cor. “I’ll forbear:  I have fallen out with my more heady will.”—­Id. “The power of the Most High guard thee from sin.”—­Percival cor. “Which title had been more true, if the dictionary had been in Latin and Welsh.”—­Verstegan cor. “The waters are frozen sooner and harder, than further upward, within the inlands.”—­Id. “At every descent, the worst may become more depraved.”—­Mann cor.

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