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.

UNDER NOTE V.—­OF SUPERLATIVES.

“Of all other simpletons, he was the greatest.”—­Nutting’s English Idioms.  “Of all other beings, man has certainly the greatest reason for gratitude.”—­Ibid., Gram., p. 110.  “This lady is the prettiest of all her sisters.”—­Peyton’s Elements of Eng.  Lang., p. 39.  “The relation which, of all others, is by far the most fruitful of tropes, I have not yet mentioned.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 141.  “He studied Greek the most of any nobleman.”—­Walker’s Particles, p. 231.  “And indeed that was the qualification of all others most wanted at that time.”—­Goldsmith’s Greece, ii, 35.  “Yet we deny that the knowledge of him, as outwardly crucified, is the best of all other knowledge of him.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 144.  “Our ideas of numbers are of all others the most accurate and distinct.”—­Duncan’s Logic, p. 35.  “This indeed is of all others the case when it can be least necessary to name the agent.”—­J.  Q. Adams’s Rhet., i, 231.  “The period, to which you have arrived, is perhaps the most critical and important of any moment of your lives.”—­Ib., i, 394.  “Perry’s royal octavo is esteemed the best of any pronouncing Dictionary yet known.”—­Red Book, p. x.  “This is the tenth persecution, and of all the foregoing, the most bloody.”—­Sammes’s Antiquities, Chap. xiii.  “The English tongue is the most susceptible of sublime imagery, of any language in the world.”—­See Bucke’s Gram., p. 141.  “Homer is universally allowed to have had the greatest Invention of any writer whatever.”—­Pope’s Preface to Homer.  “In a version of this particular work, which most of any other seems to require a venerable antique cast.”—­Ib. “Because I think him the best informed of any naturalist who has ever written.”—­ Jefferson’s Notes, p. 82.  “Man is capable of being the most social of any animal.”—­Sheridan’s Elocution, p. 145.  “It is of all others that which most moves us.”—­Ib., p. 158.  “Which of all others, is the most necessary article.”—­Ib., p. 166.

   “Quoth he ’this gambol thou advisest,
    Is, of all others, the unwisest.’”—­Hudibras, iii, 316.

UNDER NOTE VI.—­INCLUSIVE TERMS.  “Noah and his family outlived all the people who lived before the flood.”—­Webster’s El.  Spelling-Book, p. 101.  “I think it superior to any work of that nature we have yet had.”—­Dr. Blair’s Rec. in Murray’s Gram., Vol. ii, p. 300.  “We have had no grammarian who has employed so much labour and judgment upon our native language, as the author of these volumes.”—­British Critic, ib., ii, 299.  “No persons feel so much the distresses of others, as they who have experienced distress themselves.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo., p. 227.  “Never was any people so much infatuated as the Jewish nation.”—­Ib., p. 185; Frazee’s Gram., p. 135. 

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