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.

    “They could not speak; and so I left them both,
    To bear this tidings to the bloody king.”—­Id., Richard III.

UNDER NOTE II.—­OF FIXED NUMBERS.

“Why, I think she cannot be above six foot two inches high.”—­Spect., No. 533.  “The world is pretty regular for about forty rod east and ten west.”—­Ib., No. 535.  “The standard being more than two foot above it.”—­BACON:  Joh.  Dict., w.  Standard.  “Supposing (among other Things) he saw two Suns, and two Thebes.”—­Bacon’s Wisdom, p. 25.  “On the right hand we go into a parlour thirty three foot by thirty nine.”—­Sheffield’s Works, ii, 258.  “Three pound of gold went to one shield.”—­1 Kings, x, 17.  “Such an assemblage of men as there appears to have been at that sessions.”—­The Friend, x, 389.  “And, truly, he hath saved me this pains.”—­Barclay’s Works, ii, 266.  “Within this three mile may you see it coming.”—­SHAK.:  Joh.  Dict., w.  Mile.  “Most of the churches, not all, had one or more ruling elder.”—­Hutchinson’s Hist. of Mass., i, 375.  “While a Minute Philosopher, not six foot high, attempts to dethrone the Monarch of the universe.”—­Berkley’s Alciphron, p. 151.  “The wall is ten foot high.”—­Harrison’s Gram., p. 50.  “The stalls must be ten foot broad.”—­Walker’s Particles, p. 201.  “A close prisoner in a room twenty foot square, being at the north side of his chamber, is at liberty to walk twenty foot southward, not to walk twenty foot northward.”—­LOCKE:  Joh.  Dict., w.  Northward.  “Nor, after all this pains and industry, did they think themselves qualified.”—­Columbian Orator, p. 13.  “No less than thirteen gypsies were condemned at one Suffolk assizes, and executed.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 333.  “The king was petitioned to appoint one, or more, person, or persons.”—­MACAULAY:  Priestley’s Gram., p. 194.  “He carries weight! he rides a race!  ’Tis for a thousand pound!”—­Cowper’s Poems, i, 279.  “They carry three tire of guns at the head, and at the stern there are two tire of guns.”—­Joh.  Dict., w.  Galleass.  “The verses consist of two sort of rhymes.”—­Formey’s Belles-Lettres, p. 112.  “A present of 40 camel’s load of the most precious things of Syria.”—­Wood’s Dict., Vol. i, p. 162.  “A large grammar, that shall extend to every minutiae.”—­S.  Barrett’s Gram., Tenth Ed., Pref., p. iii.

   “So many spots, like naeves on Venus’ soil,
    One jewel set off with so many foil.”—­Dryden.

    “For, of the lower end, two handful
    It had devour’d, it was so manful.”—­Hudibras, i, 365.

UNDER NOTE III.—­OF RECIPROCALS.

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