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. “None shall more willingly agree to and advance the same than I.”—­Morton cor. “That it cannot but be hurtful to continue it.”—­Barclay cor. “A conjunction joins words or sentences.”—­Beck cor. “The copulative conjunction connects words or sentences together, and continues the sense.”—­Frost cor. “The copulative conjunction serves to connect [words or clauses,] and continue a sentence, by expressing an addition, a cause, or a supposition.”—­L.  Murray cor. “All construction is either true or apparent; or, in other words, either literal or figurative.”—­Buchanan and Brit.  Gram. cor. “But the divine character is such as none but a divine hand could draw.”  Or:  “But the divine character is such, that none but a divine hand could draw it.”—­A.  Keith cor. “Who is so mad, that, on inspecting the heavens, he is insensible of a God?”—­Gibbons cor. “It is now submitted to an enlightened public, with little further desire on the part of the author, than for its general utility.”—­Town cor. “This will sufficiently explain why so many provincials have grown old in the capital without making any change in their original dialect.”—­ Sheridan cor. “Of these, they had chiefly three in general use, which were denominated ACCENTS, the term being used in the plural number.”—­Id. “And this is one of the chief reasons why dramatic representations have ever held the first rank amongst the diversions of mankind.”—­Id. “Which is the chief reason why public reading is in general so disgusting.”—­Id. “At the same time in which they learn to read.”  Or:  “While they learn to read.”—­Id. “He is always to pronounce his words with exactly the same accent that he uses in speaking.”—­Id. “In order to know what an other knows, and in the same manner in which he knows it.”—­Id. “For the same reason for which it is, in a more limited state, assigned to the several tribes of animals.”—­Id. “Were there masters to teach this, in the same manner in which other arts are taught.”  Or:  “Were there masters to teach this, as other arts are taught.”—­Id.

   “Whose own example strengthens all his laws;
    Who is himself that great sublime he draws.”—­Pope cor.

LESSON IX.—­PREPOSITIONS.

“The word so has sometimes the same meaning as ALSO, LIKEWISE, or THE SAME.”—­Priestley cor. “The verb use relates not to ’pleasures of the imagination;’ but to the terms fancy and imagination, which he was to employ as synonymous.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “It never can view, clearly and distinctly, more than one object at a time.”—­Id.

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