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.
reasoning and refinement, too much of pomp and studied beauty, in them.”—­Id. “Hence arise the structure and characteristic expression of exclamation.”—­Rush cor. “And such pilots are he and his brethren, according to their own confession.”—­Barclay cor. “Of whom are Hymeneus and Philetus; who concerning the truth have erred.”—­Bible cor. “Of whom are Hymeneus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan.”—­Id. “And so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee.”—­Id. “Out of the same mouth, proceed blessing and cursing.”—­Id. “Out of the mouth of the Most High, proceed not evil and good.”—­Id. “In which there are most plainly a right and a wrong.”—­Bp.  Butler cor. “In this sentence, there are both an actor and an object.”—­R.  C. Smith cor. “In the breastplate, were placed the mysterious Urim and Thummim.”—­Milman cor. “What are the gender, number, and person, of the pronoun[541] in the first example?”—­R.  C. Smith cor. “There seem to be a familiarity and a want of dignity in it.”—­Priestley cor. “It has been often asked, what are Latin and Greek?”—­Lit.  Journal cor. “For where do beauty and high wit, But in your constellation, meet?”—­Sam.  Butler cor. “Thence to the land where flow Ganges and Indus.”—­Milton cor. “On these foundations, seem to rest the midnight riot and dissipation of modern assemblies.”—­Dr. Brown cor. “But what have disease, deformity, and filth, upon which the thoughts can be allured to dwell?”—­Dr. Johnson cor. “How are the gender and number of the relative known?”—­Bullions cor.

   “High rides the sun, thick rolls the dust,
    And feebler speed the blow and thrust.”—­Scott cor.

UNDER NOTE I.—­CHANGE THE CONNECTIVE.

“In every language, there prevails a certain structure, or analogy of parts, which is understood to give foundation to the most reputable usage.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “There runs through his whole manner a stiffness, an affectation, which renders him [Shaftsbury] very unfit to be considered a general model.”—­Id. “But where declamation for improvement in speech is the sole aim.”—­Id. “For it is by these, chiefly, that the train of thought, the course of reasoning, the whole progress of the mind, in continued discourse of any kind, is laid open.”—­Lowth cor. “In all writing and discourse, the proper composition or structure of sentences is of the highest importance.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “Here the wishful and expectant look of the beggar naturally leads to a vivid conception of that which was the object of his thoughts.”—­Campbell cor. “Who say, that the outward naming of

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