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.

UNDER NOTE II.—­UNIFORMITY OF NUMBER.

“A nation, by the reparation of the wrongs which it has done, achieves a triumph more glorious than any field of blood can ever give.”—­Adams cor. “The English nation, from whom we descended, have been gaining their liberties inch by inch.”—­Webster cor. “If a Yearly Meeting should undertake to alter its fundamental doctrines, is there any power in the society to prevent it from doing so?”—­Foster’s Rep. cor. “There is[537] a generation that curse their father, and do not bless their mother.”—­Bible cor. “There is[537] a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness.”—­Id. “He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel:  the Lord their God is with them, and the shout of a king is among them.”—­Id. “My people have forgotten me, they have burnt incense to vanity.”—­Id. “When a quarterly meeting has come to a judgement respecting any difference, relative to any monthly meeting belonging to it” &c.—­Discip. cor. “The number of such compositions is every day increasing, and it appears to be limited only by the pleasure or the convenience of writers.”—­Booth cor. “The Church of Christ has the same power now as ever, and is led by the same spirit into the same practices.”—­Barclay cor. “The army, whom their chief had thus abandoned, pursued meanwhile their miserable march.”  Or thus:  “The army, which its chief had thus abandoned, pursued meanwhile its miserable march.”—­Lockhart cor.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XII; OF PRONOUNS.

ANTECEDENTS CONNECTED BY AND.

“Discontent and sorrow manifested themselves in his countenance.”—­Brown’s Inst., p. 146.  “Both conversation and public speaking became more simple and plain, such as we now find them.”—­Blair cor. “Idleness and ignorance, if they be suffered to proceed, &c.”—­Johnson and Priestley cor. “Avoid questions and strife:  they show a busy and contentious disposition.”—­Penn cor. “To receive the gifts and benefits of God with thanksgiving, and witness them blessed and sanctified to us by the word and prayer, is owned by us.”—­Barclay cor. “Both minister and magistrate are compelled to choose between their duty and their reputation.”—­Junius cor. “All the sincerity, truth, and faithfulness, or disposition of heart or conscience to approve them, found among rational creatures, necessarily originate from God.”—­Rev. J. Brown cor. “Your levity and heedlessness, if they continue, will prevent all substantial improvement.”—­Brown’s

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