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.

   “Nor war nor wisdom yields our Jews delight,
    They will not study, and they dare not fight.”—­Crabbe cor.

    “Nor time nor chance breeds such confusions yet,
    Nor are the mean so rais’d, nor sunk the great.”—­Rowe cor.

UNDER NOTE I.—­NOMINATIVES THAT DISAGREE.

“The definite article, the, designates what particular thing or things are meant.”—­Merchant cor. “Sometimes a word, or several words, necessary to complete the grammatical construction of a sentence, are not expressed, but are omitted by ellipsis.”—­Burr cor. “Ellipsis, (better, Ellipses,) or abbreviations, are the wheels of language.”—­Maunder cor. “The conditions or tenor of none of them appears at this day.”  Or:  “The tenor or conditions of none of them appear at this day.”—­ Hutchinson cor. “Neither men nor money was wanting for the service.”  Or:  “Neither money nor men were wanting for the service.”—­Id. “Either our own feelings, or the representation of those of others, requires emphatic distinction to be frequent.”—­Dr. Barber cor. “Either Atoms and Chance, or Nature, is uppermost:  now I am for the latter part of the disjunction.”—­Collier cor. “Their riches or poverty is generally proportioned to their activity or indolence.”—­Cox cor. “Concerning the other part of him, neither he nor you seem to have entertained an idea.”—­Horne cor. “Whose earnings or income is so small.”—­Discip. cor. “Neither riches nor fame renders a man happy.”—­Day cor. “The references to the pages always point to the first volume, unless the Exercises or Key is mentioned.”  Or, better:—­“unless mention is made of the Exercises or Key.”  Or:  “unless the Exercises or Key be named.”—­L.  Murray cor.

UNDER NOTE II.—­COMPLETE THE CONCORD.

“My lord, you wrong my father; neither is he, nor am I, capable of harbouring a thought against your peace.”—­Walpole cor. “There was no division of acts; there were no pauses, or intervals, in the performance; but the stage was continually full; occupied either by the actors, or by the chorus.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “Every word ending in b, p, or f, is of this order, as also are many that end in v.”—­Dr. Murray cor. “Proud as we are of human reason, nothing can be more absurd than is the general system of human life and human knowledge.”—­ Bolingbroke cor. “By which the body of sin and death is done away, and we are cleansed.”—­Barclay cor.  “And those were already converted, and regeneration was begun in them.”—­Id.

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