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.
all, of the papers which had passed betwixt them.”—­Id. “In this manner, as to both parsing and correcting, should all the rules of syntax be treated, being taken up regularly according to their order.”—­L.  Murray cor.To Ovando were allowed a brilliant retinue and a body-guard.”—­Sketch cor.Was it I or he, that you requested to go?”—­Kirkham cor. “Let thee and me go on.”—­Bunyan cor. “This I nowhere affirmed; and I do wholly deny it.”—­Barclay cor. “But that I deny; and it remains for him to prove it.”—­Id. “Our country sinks beneath the yoke:  She weeps, she bleeds, and each new day a gash Is added to her wounds.”—­Shak. cor. “Thou art the Lord who chose Abraham and brought him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees.”—­Bible and Mur. cor. “He is the exhaustless fountain, from which emanate all these attributes that exist throughout this wide creation.”—­Wayland cor. “I am he who has communed with the son of Neocles; I am he who has entered the gardens of pleasure.”—­Wright cor.

   “Such were in ancient times the tales received,
    Such by our good forefathers were believed.”—­Rowe cor.

LESSON XIV.—­TWO ERRORS.

“The noun or pronoun that stands before the active verb, usually represents the agent.”—­A.  Murray cor. “Such seem to have been the musings of our hero of the grammar-quill, when he penned the first part of his grammar.”—­Merchant cor. “Two dots, the one placed above the other [:], are called Sheva, and are used to represent a very short e.”—­Wilson cor. “Great have been, and are, the obscurity and difficulty, in the nature and application of them” [:  i.e.—­of natural remedies].—­Butler cor. “As two are to four, so are four to eight.”—­Everest cor. “The invention and use of arithmetic, reach back to a period so remote, as to be beyond the knowledge of history.”—­ Robertson cor. “What it presents as objects of contemplation or enjoyment, fill and satisfy his mind.”—­Id. “If he dares not say they are, as I know he dares not, how must I then distinguish?”—­Barclay cor. “He had now grown so fond of solitude, that all company had become uneasy to him.”—­Life of Cic. cor. “Violence and spoil are heard in her; before me continually are grief and wounds.”—­Bible cor. “Bayle’s Intelligence from the Republic of Letters, which makes eleven volumes in duodecimo, is truly a model in this kind.”—­Formey cor. “Pauses, to be rendered pleasing and expressive, must not only be made in the right

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