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.

“Though he was not known by those letters, or the name CHRIST.”—­Bayly cor. “In a gig, or some of those things.”  Better:  “In a gig, or some such vehicle.”—­M.  Edgeworth cor. “When cross-examined by those lawyers.”—­Same.  “As the custom in those cases is.”—­Same.  “If you had listened to those slanders.”—­Same.  “The old people were telling stories about those fairies; but, to the best of my judgement, there is nothing in them.”—­Same.  “And is it not a pity that the Quakers have no better authority to substantiate their principles, than the testimony of those old Pharisees?”—­Hibbard cor.

UNDER NOTE XII.—­THIS AND THAT.

“Hope is as strong an incentive to action, as fear:  that is the anticipation of good, this of evil.”—­Inst., p. 265.  “The poor want some advantages which the rich enjoy; but we should not therefore account these happy, and those miserable.”—­Inst., p. 266.

   “Ellen and Margaret, fearfully,
    Sought comfort in each other’s eye;

    Then turned their ghastly look each one,
    That to her sire, this to her son.”—­Scott cor.

“Six youthful sons, as many blooming maids, In one sad day beheld the Stygian shades; Those by Apollo’s silver bow were slain, These Cynthia’s arrows stretch’d upon the plain.”—­Pope cor.

    “Memory and forecast just returns engage,
    That pointing back to youth, this on to age.”—­Pope, on Man.

UNDER NOTE XIII.—­EITHER AND NEITHER.

“These make the three great subjects of discussion among mankind; namely, truth, duty, and interest:  but the arguments directed towards any of them are generically distinct.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “A thousand other deviations may be made, and still any of the accounts may be correct in principle; for all these divisions, and their technical terms, are arbitrary.”—­R.  W. Green cor. “Thus it appears, that our alphabet is deficient; as it has but seven vowels to represent thirteen different sounds; and has no letter to represent any of five simple consonant sounds.”—­Churchill cor. “Then none of these five verbs can be neuter.”—­O.  B. Peirce cor. “And the assertor[534] is in none of the four already mentioned.”—­Id. “As it is not in any of these four.”—­Id. “See whether or not the word comes within the definition of any of the other three simple cases.”—­Id. “No one of the ten was there.”—­Frazee cor. “Here are ten oranges, take any one of them.”—­Id. “There are three modes, by any of which recollection will generally be supplied; inclination, practice, and association.”—­Rippingham cor. “Words not reducible to any of the three preceding heads.”—­Fowler cor. “Now a sentence may be analyzed in reference to any of these four classes.”—­Id.

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