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.
unto me, I will in no wise cast out.”—­Tract, No. 3, p. 6.  “Who, during this preparation, they constantly and solemnly invoke.”—­Hope of Israel, p. 84.  “Whoever or whatever owes us, is Debtor; whoever or whatever we owe, is Creditor.”—­Marsh’s Book-Keeping, p. 23.  “Declaring the curricle was his, and he should have who he chose in it.”—­Anna Ross, p. 147.  “The fact is, Burke is the only one of all the host of brilliant contemporaries who we can rank as a first-rate orator.”—­The Knickerbocker, May, 1833.  “Thus you see, how naturally the Fribbles and the Daffodils have produced the Messalina’s of our time:”—­Brown’s Estimate, ii, 53.  “They would find in the Roman list both the Scipio’s.”—­Ib., ii, 76.  “He found his wife’s clothes on fire, and she just expiring.”—­New-York Observer.  “To present ye holy, unblameable, and unreproveable in his sight.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 353.  “Let the distributer do his duty with simplicity; the superintendent, with diligence; he who performs offices of compassion, with cheerfulness.”—­Stuart’s Romans, xii, 9.  “If the crew rail at the master of the vessel, who will they mind?”—­Collier’s Antoninus, p. 106.  “He having none but them, they having none but hee.”—­DRAYTON’S Polyolbion.

“Thou, nature, partial nature, I arraign!  Of thy caprice maternal I complain!”—­Burns’s Poems, p. 50.  “Nor knows he who it is his arms pursue With eager clasps, but loves he knows not who.”—­Addison’s, p. 218.

UNDER NOTE I.—­OF VERBS TRANSITIVE.

“When it gives that sense, and also connects, it is a conjunction.”—­L.  Murray’s Gram., p. 116.  “Though thou wilt not acknowledge, thou canst not deny the fact.”—­Murray’s Key, p. 209.  “They specify, like many other adjectives, and connect sentences.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 114.  “The violation of this rule tends so much to perplex and obscure, that it is safer to err by too many short sentences.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 312.  “A few Exercises are subjoined to each important definition, for him to practice upon as he proceeds in committing.”—­Nutting’s Gram., 3d Ed., p. vii.  “A verb signifying actively governs the accusative.”—­Adam’s Gram., p. 171; Gould’s, 172; Grant’s, 199; and others.  “Or, any word that will conjugate, is a verb.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 44.  “In these two concluding sentences, the author, hastening to finish, appears to write rather carelessly.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 216.  “He simply reasons on one side of the question, and then finishes.”—­Ib., p. 306.  “Praise to God teaches to be humble and lowly ourselves.”—­ATTERBURY:  ib., p. 304.  “This author has endeavored to surpass.”—­Green’s Inductive Gram., p. 54.  “Idleness and plezure fateeg az soon az bizziness.”—­Noah

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