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.

“Schoolmasters and mistresses of honest friends [are] to be encouraged.”—­N.  E. Discipline, p. xv.  “We never assumed to ourselves a faith or worship-making-power.”—­Barclay’s Works, Vol. i, p. 83.  “Pot and pearl ashes are made from common ashes.”—­Webster’s New Spelling-Book, p. 69.  “Both the ten and eight syllable verses are iambics.”—­Blair’s Gram., p. 121.  “I say to myself, thou, he says to thy, to his self; &c.”—­Dr. Murray’s Hist. of Europ.  Lang., Vol. ii p. 121.  “Or those who have esteemed themselves skilful, have tried for the mastery in two or four horse chariots.”—­Zenobia, Vol. i, p. 152.  “I remember him barefooted and headed, running through the streets.”—­Castle Rackrent, p. 68.  “Friends have the entire control of the school and dwelling-houses.”—­The Friend, Vol. vii, p. 231.  “The meeting is held at the first mentioned place in the first month, at the last in the second, and so on.”—­Ib., p. 167.  “Meetings for worship are held at the same hour on first and fourth days.”—­Ib., p. 230.  “Every part of it, inside and out, is covered with gold leaf.”—­Ib., p. 404.  “The Eastern Quarterly Meeting is held on the last seventh day in second, fifth, eighth, and eleventh month.”—­Ib., p. 87.  “Trenton Preparative Meeting is held on the third fifth day in each month, at ten o’clock; meetings for worship at the same hour on first and fifth days.”—­Ib., p. 231.  “Ketch, a vessel with two masts, a main and mizzen-mast.”—­Webster’s Dict., “I only mean to suggest a doubt, whether nature has enlisted herself as a Cis or Trans-Atlantic partisan?”—­ Jefferson’s Notes, p. 97.  “By large hammers, like those used for paper and fullingmills, they beat their hemp.”—­MORTIMER:  in Johnson’s Dict. “Ant-hill, or Hillock, n. s. The small protuberances of earth, in which ants make their nests.”—­Ib. “It became necessary to substitute simple indicative terms called pro-names or nouns.”—­Enclytica, p. 16.

   “Obscur’d, where highest woods, impenetrable
    To star or sun-light, spread their umbrage broad.”—­Milton.

UNDER RULE V.—­THE HYPHEN.

Evilthinking; a noun, compounded of the noun evil and the imperfect participle thinking; singular number;” &c.—­Churchill’s Gram., p. 180.

[FORMULE—­Not proper, because the word evilthinking, which has more than one accented syllable, is here compounded without the hyphen.  But, according to Rule 5th, “When the parts of a compound do not fully coalesce, or when each retains its original accent, so that the compound has more than one, or one that is movable, the hyphen should be inserted between them.”  Therefore, the hyphen should be used in this word; thus, evil-thinking.]

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