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.
Gram., p. 103.  “The first its personates vale; the second its represents stream.”—­Ib., p. 103.  “Pronouns do not always avoid the repetition of nouns.”—­Ib., p. 96. “Very is an adverb of comparison, it compares the adjective good.”—­Ib., p. 88.  “You will please to commit the following paragraph.”—­Ib., p. 140.  “Even the Greek and Latin passive verbs require an auxiliary to conjugate some of their tenses.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 100.  “The deponent verbs, in Latin, require also an auxiliary to conjugate several of their tenses.”—­Ib., p. 100.  “I have no doubt he made as wise and true proverbs, as any body has done since.”—­Ib., p. 145.  “A uniform variety assumes as many set forms as Proteus had shapes.”—­Kirkham’s Elocution, p. 72.  “When words in apposition follow each other in quick succession.”—­Nixon’s Parser, p. 57.  “Where such sentences frequently succeed each other.”—­L.  Murray’s Gram., p. 349.  “Wisdom leads us to speak and act what is most proper.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 99; Murray’s Gram., i, 303.

   “Jul.  Art thou not Romeo, and a Montague?
    Rom.  Neither, fair saint, if either thee dislike.”—­Shak.

UNDER NOTE IV.—­OF PASSIVE VERBS.

“We too must be allowed the privilege of forming our own laws.”—­L.  Murray’s Gram., p. 134.  “For we are not only allowed the use of all the ancient poetic feet,” &c.—­Ib., p. 259; Kirkham’s Elocution, 143; Jamieson’s Rhet., 310.  “By what code of morals am I denied the right and privilege?”—­Dr. Bartlett’s Lect., p. 4.  “The children of Israel have alone been denied the possession of it.”—­Keith’s Evidences, p. 68.  “At York fifteen hundred Jews were refused all quarter.”—­Ib., p. 73.  “He would teach the French language in three lessons, provided he was paid fifty-five dollars in advance.”—­Chazotte’s Essay, p. 4.  “And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come.”—­Luke, xvii, 20.  “I have been shown a book.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 392.  “John Horne Tooke was refused admission only because he had been in holy orders.”—­Diversions of Purley, i, 60.  “Mr. Horne Tooke having taken orders, he was refused admission to the bar.”—­Churchill’s Gram., p. 145.  “Its reference to place is lost sight of.”—­Bullions’s E. Gram., p. 116.  “What striking lesson are we taught by the tenor of this history?”—­Bush’s Questions, p. 71.  “He had been left, by a friend, no less than eighty thousand pounds.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 112.  “Where there are many things to be done, each must be allowed its share of time and labour.”—­Johnson’s Pref. to Dict., p. xiii.  “Presenting the subject in a far more practical form than it has been heretofore given.”—­Kirkham’s

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