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.

“In the storm of 1703, two thousand stacks of chimnies were blown down, in and about London.”—­See Red Book, p. 112.  “And the vexation was not abated by the hacknied plea of haste.”—­Ib., p. 142.  “The fourth sin of our daies is lukewarmness.”—­Perkins’s Works, p. 725.  “God hates the workers of iniquity, and destroies them that speak lies.”—­Ib., p. 723.  “For, when he laies his hand upon us, we may not fret.”—­Ib., p. 726.  “Care not for it; but if thou maiest be free, choose it rather.”—­Ib., p. 736.  “Alexander Severus saith, ’He that buieth, must sell:  I will not suffer buyers and sellers of offices.’”—­Ib., p. 737.  “With these measures fell in all monied men.”—­SWIFT:  Johnson’s Dict. “But rattling nonsense in full vollies breaks.”—­POPE:  ib., w.  Volley.  “Vallies are the intervals betwixt mountains.”—­WOODWARD:  ib. “The Hebrews had fifty-two journies or marches.”—­Wood’s Dict. “It was not possible to manage or steer the gallies thus fastened together.”—­Goldsmith’s Greece, Vol. ii, p. 106.  “Turkies were not known to naturalists till after the discovery of America.”—­See Gregory’s Dict. “I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkies.”—­See Key.  “Men worked at embroidery, especially in abbies.”—­Constable’s Miscellany, Vol. xxi, p. 101.  “By which all purchasers or mortgagees may be secured of all monies they lay out.”—­TEMPLE:  Johnson’s Dict. “He would fly to the mines and the gallies for his recreation.”—­SOUTH:  Ib.

   “Here pullies make the pond’rous oak ascend.”—­GAY:  ib.

------------“You need my help, and you say,
Shylock, we would have monies.”—­SHAKSPEARE:  ib.

UNDER RULE XIII.—­OF IZE AND ISE.

“Will any able writer authorise other men to revise his works?”—­Author.

[FORMULES.—­1.  Not proper, because the word “authorise” is here written with s in the last syllable, in stead of z.  But, according to Rule 13th, “Words ending in ize or ise sounded alike, as in wise and size, generally take the z in all such as are essentially formed by means of the termination.”  Therefore, this s should be z; thus, authorize.

2.  Not proper again, because the word “revize” is here written with z in the last syllable, in lieu of s.  But, according to Rule 13th, “Words ending in ize or ise sounded alike, as in wise and size, generally take the s, in monosyllables, and all such as are essentially formed by means of prefixes.”  Therefore, this z should be s; thus, revise.]

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