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.
state, while he iz a member of it.”—­Ib., p. 320.  “But wil our sage writers on law forever think by tradition?”—­Ib., p. 318.  “Some stil retain a sovereign power in their territories.”—­Ib., p. 298.  “They sel images, prayers, the sound of bels, remission of sins, &c.”—­Perkins’s Theology, p. 401.  “And the law had sacrifices offered every day for the sins of al the people.”—­Ib., p. 406.  “Then it may please the Lord, they shal find it to be a restorative.”—­Ib., p. 420.  “Perdition is repentance put of til a future day.”—­Old Maxim.  “The angels of God, which wil good and cannot wil evil, have nevertheless perfect liberty of wil.”—­Perkins’s Theology, p. 716.  “Secondly, this doctrine cuts off the excuse of al sin.”—­Ib., p. 717.  “Knel, the sound of a bell rung at a funeral.”—­Johnson and Walker.

   “If gold with dros or grain with chaf you find,
    Select—­and leave the chaf and dros behind.”—­Author.

UNDER RULE II.—­OF OTHER FINALS.

“The mobb hath many heads, but no brains.”—­Old Maxim.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the word “mobb” is here spelled with double b.  But, according to Rule 2d, “Words ending in any other consonant than f, l, or s, do not double the final letter.”  Therefore, this b should be single:  thus, mob.]

“Clamm, to clog with any glutinous or viscous matter.”—­Johnson’s Dict. “Whurr, to pronounce the letter r with too much force.”—­Ib. “Flipp, a mixed liquor, consisting of beer and spirits sweetened.”—­Ib. “Glynn, a hollow between two mountains, a glen.”—­Churchill’s Grammar, p. 22.  “Lamm, to beat soundly with a cudgel or bludgeon.”—­Walker’s Dict. “Bunn, a small cake, a simnel, a kind of sweet bread.”—­See ib. “Brunett, a woman with a brown complexion.”—­Ib. and Johnson’s Dict. “Wad’sett, an ancient tenure or lease of land in the Highlands of Scotland.”—­Webster’s Dict. “To dodd sheep, is to cut the wool away about their tails.”—­Ib.In aliquem arietare, CIC.  To run full but at one.”—­Walker’s Particles, p. 95.  “Neither your policy nor your temper would permitt you to kill me.”—­Philological Museum, Vol. i, p. 427.  “And admitt none but his own offspring to fulfill them.”—­Ib., i, 437.  “The summ of all this Dispute is, that some make them Participles,” &c.—­Johnson’s Gram. Com., p. 352.  “As, the whistling of winds, the buz and hum of insects, the hiss of serpents, the crash of falling timber.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 129; Adam’s Lat.  Gram., p. 247; Gould’s, 238.  “Vann, to winnow, or a fan for winnowing.”—­Walker’s Rhyming Dict. “Creatures that buz, are very commonly such as will sting.”—­Author

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