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.
thus:  “He received me as I would receive you.”—­R.  C. Smith cor. “Consisting of both the direct and the collateral evidence.”—­Bp.  Butler cor. “If any man or woman that believeth hath widows, let him or her relieve them, and let not the church be charged.”—­Bible cor. “For men’s sake are beasts bred.”—­W.  Walker cor. “From three o’clock, there were drinking and gaming.”—­Id. “Is this he that I am seeking, or not?”—­Id. “And for the upholding of every one’s own opinion, there is so much ado.”—­Sewel cor. “Some of them, however, will necessarily be noticed.”—­Sale cor. “The boys conducted themselves very indiscreetly.”—­Merchant cor. “Their example, their influence, their fortune,—­every talent they possess,—­dispenses blessings on all persons around them.”—­Id. and Murray cor. “The two Reynoldses reciprocally converted each other.”—­Johnson cor. “The destroying of the last two, Tacitus calls an attack upon virtue itself.”—­Goldsmith cor.Moneys are your suit.”—­Shak. cor.Ch is commonly sounded like tch, as in church; but in words derived from Greek, it has the sound of k.”—­L.  Murray cor. “When one is obliged to make some utensil serve for purposes to which it was not originally destined.”—­Campbell cor. “But that a baptism with water is a washing-away of sin, thou canst not hence prove.”—­Barclay cor. “Being spoken to but one, it infers no universal command.”—­Id. “For if the laying-aside of copulatives gives force and liveliness, a redundancy of them must render the period languid.”—­Buchanan cor. “James used to compare him to a cat, which always falls upon her legs.”—­Adam cor.

   “From the low earth aspiring genius springs,
    And sails triumphant borne on eagle’s wings.”—­Lloyd cor.

LESSON XIII.—­TWO ERRORS

“An ostentatious, a feeble, a harsh, or an obscure style, for instance, is always faulty.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “Yet in this we find that the English pronounce quite agreeably to rule.”  Or thus:  “Yet in this we find the English pronunciation perfectly agreeable to rule.”  Or thus:  “Yet in this we find that the English pronounce in a manner perfectly agreeable to rule.”—­J.  Walker cor. “But neither the perception of ideas, nor knowledge of any sort, is a habit, though absolutely necessary to the forming of habits.”—­Bp.  Butler cor. “They were cast; and a heavy fine was imposed upon them.”—­Goldsmith cor. “Without making this reflection, he

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