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.

“Who has thoroughly imbibed the system of one or other of our Christian rabbis.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 378.  “The seeming singularitys of reason soon wear off.”—­Collier’s Antoninus, p. 47.  “The chiefs and arikis or priests have the power of declaring a place or object taboo.”—­Balbi’s Geog., p. 460.  “Among the various tribes of this family, are the Pottawatomies, the Sacs and Foxes, or Saukis and Ottogamis.”—­Ib., p. 178.  “The Shawnees, Kickapoos, Menomonies, Miamis and Delawares, are of the same region.”—­Ib., p. 178.  “The Mohegans and Abenaquis belonged also to this family.”—­Ib., p. 178.  “One tribe of this family, the Winnebagos, formerly resided near lake Michigan.”—­Ib., p. 179.  “The other tribes are the Ioways, the Otoes, the Missouris, the Quapaws.”—­Ib., p. 179.  “The great Mexican family comprises the Aztecs, Toltecs, and Tarascos.”—­Ib., p. 179.  “The Mulattoes are born of negro and white parents; the Zambos, of Indians and negroes.”—­Ib., p. 165.  “To have a place among the Alexanders, the Caesars, the Lewis’, or the Charles’, the scourges and butchers of their fellow-creatures.”—­Burgh’s Dignity, i, 132.  “Which was the notion of the Platonic Philosophers and Jewish rabbii.”—­Ib., p. 248.  “That they should relate to the whole body of virtuosos.”—­Gobbett’s E. Gram., 212.  “What thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.”—­Luke, vi, 32.  “There are five ranks of nobility; dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, and barons.”—­Balbi’s Geog., p. 228.  “Acts, which were so well known to the two Charles’s.”—­Payne’s Geog., ii, 511.  “Court Martials are held in all parts, for the trial of the blacks.”—­Observer, No. 458.  “It becomes a common noun, and may have a plural number; as, the two Davids; the two Scipios, the two Pompies.”—­Staniford’s Gram., p. 8.  “The food of the rattlesnake is birds, squirrels, hare, rats, and reptiles.”—­Balbi’s Geog., p. 177.  “And let fowl multiply in the earth.”—­Genesis, i, 22.  “Then we reached the hill-side where eight buffalo were grazing.”—­Martineau’s Amer., i, 202. “Corset, n. a pair of bodice for a woman.”—­Worcester’s Dict., 12mo.  “As the be’s; the ce’s, the doubleyu’s.”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 40.  “Simplicity is the means between ostentation and rusticity.”—­Pope’s Pref. to Homer.  “You have disguised yourselves like tipstaves.”—­Gil Blas, i, 111.  “But who, that hath any taste, can endure the incessant quick returns of the also’s, and the likewise’s, and the moreover’s, and the however’s, and the notwithstanding’s?”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 439.

   “Sometimes, in mutual sly disguise,
    Let Aye’s seem No’s, and No’s seem Aye’s.”—­Gay, p. 431.

LESSON II.—­CASES.

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