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.

“Thou, who lovest us, wilt protect us still.”—­A.  Murray cor. “To use that endearing language, ‘Our Father, who art in heaven.’”—­Bates cor. “Resembling the passions that produce these actions.”—­Kames cor. “Except dwarf, grief, hoof, muff, &c., which take s to make the plural.”—­Ash cor. “As the cattle that go before me, and the children, be able to endure.”—­Gen. cor. “Where is the man who dares affirm that such an action is mad?”—­Dr. Pratt cor. “The ninth book of Livy affords one of the most beautiful exemplifications of historical painting, that are anywhere to be met with.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “In some studies, too, that relate to taste and fine writing, which are our object,” &c.—­Id. “Of those affecting situations which make man’s heart feel for man.”—­Id. “We see very plainly, that it is neither Osmyn nor Jane Shore that speaks.”—­Id. “It should assume that briskness and ease which are suited to the freedom of dialogue.”—­Id. “Yet they grant, that none ought to be admitted into the ministry, but such as are truly pious.”—­Barclay cor. “This letter is one of the best that have been written about Lord Byron.”—­Hunt cor. “Thus, besides what were sunk, the Athenians took above two hundred ships.”—­Goldsmith cor. “To have made and declared such orders as were necessary.”—­Hutchinson cor. “The idea of such a collection of men as makes an army.”—­Locke cor. “I’m not the first that has been wretched.”—­Southern cor. “And the faint sparks of it which are in the angels, are concealed from our view.”—­Calvin cor. “The subjects are of such a nature, as allows room (or, as to allow room) for much diversity of taste and sentiment.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “It is in order to propose examples of such perfection, as is not to be found in the real examples of society.”—­Formey cor. “I do not believe that he would amuse himself with such fooleries as have been attributed to him.”—­Id. “That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed.”—­Milton, P. L., B. i, l. 8.  “With respect to the vehemence and warmth which are allowed in popular eloquence.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “Ambition is one of those passions that are never to be satisfied.”—­Home cor. “Thou wast he that led out and brought in Israel.”—­Bible cor. “Art thou the man of God, that came from Judah?”—­Id.

   “How beauty is excell’d by manly grace
    And wisdom, which alone are truly fair.”—­Milton cor.

    “What art thou, speak, that on designs unknown,
    While others sleep, thus roamst the camp alone?”—­Pope cor.

UNDER NOTE II.—­NOMINATIVE WITH ADJUNCTS.

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