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.
more anxious to attain the character of a Christian hero.”—­Murray’s Sequel, p. 308.  “Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion.”—­Psalms, xlviii, 2.  “The Lord is my Helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.”—­SCOTT:  Heb., xiii, 6.  “Make haste to help me, O LORD my Salvation.”—­SCOTT:  Ps., xxxviii, 22.

   “The City, which Thou seest, no other deem
    Than great and glorious Rome, Queen of the Earth.”
                              Harris’s Hermes, p. 49.

LESSON II.—­MIXED.

“That range of hills, known under the general name of mount Jura.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 110.  “He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up.”—­SCOTT:  Ps., cvi, 9.  “Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.”—­John, viii, 1.  “Milton’s book, in reply to the Defence of the king, by Salmasius, gained him a thousand pounds from the parliament, and killed his antagonist with vexation.”—­See Murray’s Sequel, 343.  “Mandeville, sir John, an Englishman, famous for his travels, born about 1300, died in 1372.”—­Biog.  Dict. “Ettrick pen, a mountain in Selkirkshire, Scotland, height 2,200 feet.”—­Glasgow Geog., Vol. ii, p. 312.  “The coast bends from Dungsbyhead in a northwest direction to the promontory of Dunnet head.”—­Ib., p. 307.  “Gen. Gaines ordered a detachment of near 300 men, under the command of Major Twiggs, to surround and take an Indian Village, called Fowl Town, about fourteen miles from fort Scott.”—­Cohen’s Florida, p. 41.  “And he took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha Cumi.”—­ALGER:  Mark, v, 4.  “On religious subjects, a frequent recurrence of scripture-language is attended with peculiar force.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 318.  “Contemplated with gratitude to their Author, the Giver of all Good.”—­Ib., p. 289.  “When he, the Spirit of Truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth.”—­Ib., p. 171; Fisk, 98; Ingersoll, 186.  “See the lecture on verbs, rule XV. note 4.”—­Fisk’s E. Gram., p. 117.  “At the commencement of lecture II.  I informed you that Etymology treats, 3dly, of derivation.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 171.  “This VIII. lecture is a very important one.”—­Ib., p. 113.  “Now read the XI. and XII. lectures four or five times over.”—­Ib., p. 152.  “In 1752, he was advanced to the bench, under the title of lord Kames.”—­Murray’s Sequel, p. 331.  “One of his maxims was, ‘know thyself.’”—­Lempriere’s Dict., n.  Chilo. “Good master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?”—­See Matt., xix, 16.  “His best known works, however, are ‘anecdotes of the earl of Chatham,’ 2 vols. 4to., 3 vols. 8vo., and ’biographical, literary, and political anecdotes of several of the most eminent persons of the present age; never before

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