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.

“Indeed we have seriously wondered that Murray should leave some things as he has left them.”—­Reporter cor. “Which they neither have done nor can do.”—­Barclay cor. “The Lord hath revealed, and doth and will reveal, his will to his people; and hath raised up, and doth raise up, members of his body,” &c.—­Id. “We see, then, that the Lord hath given, and doth give, such.”—­Id. “Towards those that have declared, or do declare, themselves members.”—­Id. “For which we can give, and have given, our sufficient reasons.”—­Id. “When we mention the several properties of the different words in sentences, as we have mentioned those of the word William’s above, what is the exercise called?”—­R.  C. Smith cor. “It is however to be doubted, whether this Greek idiom ever has obtained, or ever will obtain, extensively, in English.”—­Nutting cor. “Why did not the Greeks and Romans abound in auxiliary words as much as we do?”—­Murray cor. “Who delivers his sentiments in earnest, as they ought to be delivered in order to move and persuade.”—­Kirkham cor.

UNDER NOTE X.—­DO, USED AS A SUBSTITUTE.

“And I would avoid it altogether, if it could be avoided.”  Or:  “I would avoid it altogether, if to avoid it were practicable.”—­Kames cor. “Such a sentiment from a man expiring of his wounds, is truly heroic; and it must elevate the mind to the greatest height to which it can be raised by a single expression.”—­Id. “Successive images, thus making deeper and deeper impressions, must elevate the mind more than any single image can.”—­Id. “Besides making a deeper impression than can be made by cool reasoning.”—­Id. “Yet a poet, by the force of genius alone, may rise higher than a public speaker can.”  Or:—­“than can a public speaker.”—­Blair cor. “And the very same reason that has induced several grammarians to go so far as they have gone, should have induced them to go farther.”—­Priestley cor. “The pupil should commit the first section to memory perfectly, before he attempts (or enters upon) the second part of grammar.”—­Bradley cor. “The Greek ch was pronounced hard, as we now pronounce it in chord.”—­Booth cor. “They pronounce the syllables in a different manner from what they adopt (or, in a manner different from that which they are accustomed to use) at other times.”—­L.  Murray cor. “And give him the cool and formal reception that Simon had given.”—­Scott cor. “I do not say, as some have said.”—­Bolingbroke cor. “If he suppose the first, he may the last.”—­Barclay cor. “Who are now despising Christ in his inward appearance,

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