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.
cor. “And, notwithstanding its verbal power, we have added the TO and other signs of exertion.”—­Booth cor. “Some of these situations are termed CASES, and are expressed by additions to the noun, in stead of separate words:”  or,—­“and not by separate words.”—­Id. “Is it such a fast that I have chosen, that a man should afflict his soul for a day, and bow down his head like a bulrush?”—­Bacon cor. Compare Isa., lviii, 5.  “And this first emotion comes at last to be awakened by the accidental in stead of the necessary antecedent.”—­Wayland cor. “About the same time, the subjugation of the Moors was completed.”—­Balbi cor. “God divided between the light and the darkness.”—­Burder cor. “Notwithstanding this, we are not against outward significations of honour.”—­Barclay cor. “Whether these words and practices of Job’s friends, ought to be our rule.”—­Id. “Such verb cannot admit an objective case after it.”—­Lowth cor. “For which, God is now visibly punishing these nations.”—­C.  Leslie cor. “In this respect, Tasso yields to no poet, except Homer.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “Notwithstanding the numerous panegyrics on the ancient English liberty.”—­Hume cor. “Their efforts seemed to anticipate the spirit which became so general afterwards.”—­Id.

UNDER NOTE V.—­THE PLACING OF THE WORDS.

“But how short of its excellency are my expressions!”—­Baxter cor.In his style, there is a remarkable union of harmony with ease.”—­Dr. H. Blair cor. “It disposes of the light and shade in the most artificial manner, that every thing may be viewed to the best advantage.”—­Id.For brevity, Aristotle too holds an eminent rank among didactic writers.”—­Id. “In an introduction, correctness of expression should be carefully studied.”—­Id.In laying down a method, one ought above all things to study precision.”—­Id. “Which shall make on the mind the impression of something that is one, whole, and entire.”—­Id. “At the same time, there are in the Odyssey some defects which must be acknowledged.”  Or:  “At the same time, it must be acknowledged that there are some defects in the Odyssey.”—­Id.In the concluding books, however, there are beauties of the tragic kind.”—­Id. “These forms of conversation multiplied by degrees, and grew troublesome.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 44.  “When she has made her own choice, she sends, for form’s sake, a conge-d’elire to her friends.”—­Ib., ii, 46.  “Let us endeavour to establish to ourselves an interest in him who holds in his hand the reins of the whole creation.”—­Spectator cor.; also Kames.  “Next to this,

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