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.
Unimproveableness and Improvably.”—­Johnson’s Dict. “And with this cruelty you are chargable in some measure yourself.”—­Collier’s Antoninus, p. 94.  “Mothers would certainly resent it, as judgeing it proceeded from a low opinion of the genius of their sex.”—­British Gram., Pref., p. xxv.  “Titheable, subject to the payment of tithes; Saleable, vendible, fit for sale; Loseable, possible to be lost; Sizeable, of reasonable bulk or size.”—­Walker’s Rhyming Dict. “When he began this custom, he was puleing and very tender.”—­Locke, on Ed., p. 8.

   “The plate, coin, revenues, and moveables,
    Whereof our uncle Gaunt did stand possess’d.”—­Shak.

UNDER RULE X.—­OF FINAL E.

“Diversly; in different ways, differently, variously.”—­Rhym.  Dict., and Webster’s.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the word “Diversly” here omits the final e of its primitive word, diverse.  But, according to Rule 10th, “The final e of a primitive word is generally retained before an additional termination beginning with a consonant.”  Therefore, this e should be retained; thus, Diversely.]

“The event thereof contains a wholsome instruction.”—­Bacon’s Wisdom of the Ancients, p. 17.  “Whence Scaliger falsly concluded that articles were useless.”—­Brightland’s Gram., p. 94.  “The child that we have just seen is wholesomly fed.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 187.  “Indeed, falshood and legerdemain sink the character of a prince.”—­Collier’s Antoninus, p. 5.  “In earnest, at this rate of managment, thou usest thyself very coarsly.”—­Ib., p. 19.  “To give them an arrangment and diversity, as agreeable as the nature of the subject would admit”—­Murray’s Pref. to Ex., p. vi.  “Alger’s Grammar is only a trifling enlargment of Murray’s little Abridgment.”—­Author.  “You ask whether you are to retain or omit the mute e in the word judgment, abridgment, acknowledgment, lodgment, adjudgment, and prejudgment.”—­Red Book, p. 172.  “Fertileness, fruitfulness; Fertily, fruitfully, abundantly.”—­Johnson’s Dict. “Chastly, purely, without contamination; Chastness, chastity, purity.”—­Ib., and Walker’s.  “Rhymster, n. One who makes rhymes; a versifier; a mean poet.”—­Johnson and Webster.  “It is therefore an heroical achievment to dispossess this imaginary monarch.”—­Berkley’s Minute Philos., p. 151.  “Whereby, is not meant the Present Time, as he imagins, but the Time Past.”—­Johnson’s Gram.  Com., p. 344 “So far is this word from affecting the noun, in regard to its definitness, that its own character of definitness or indefinitness, depends upon the name to which it is prefixed.”—­Webster’s Philosophical Gram., p. 20.

   “Satire, by wholsome Lessons, wou’d reclaim,
    And heal their Vices to secure their Fame.”
        —­Brightland’s Gr., p. 171.

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