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.
Belles-Lettres, p. 27.  “A few more instances only can be given here.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 131.  “A few more years will obliterate every vestige of a subjunctive form.”—­Nutting’s Gram., p. 46.  “Some define them to be verbs devoid of the two first persons.”—­Crombie’s Treatise, p. 205.  “In such another Essay-tract as this.”—­White’s English Verb, p. 302.  “But we fear that not such another man is to be found.”—­REV.  ED. IRVING:  on Horne’s Psalms, p. xxiii.

   “Oh such another sleep, that I might see
    But such another man!”—­SHAK., Antony and Cleopatra.

UNDER NOTE X.—­ADJECTIVES FOR ADVERBS.

The is an article, relating to the noun balm, agreeable to Rule 11.”—­Comly’s Gram., p. 133. “Wise is an adjective relating to the noun man’s, agreeable to Rule 11th.”—­Ibid., 12th Ed., often.  “To whom I observed, that the beer was extreme good.”—­Goldsmith’s Essays, p. 127.  “He writes remarkably elegant.”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 152.  “John behaves truly civil to all men.”—­Ib., p. 153.  “All the sorts of words hitherto considered have each of them some meaning, even when taken separate.”—­Beattie’s Moral Science, i, 44.  “He behaved himself conformable to that blessed example.”—­Sprat’s Sermons, p. 80.  “Marvellous graceful.”—­Clarendon, Life, p. 18.  “The Queen having changed her ministry suitable to her wisdom.”—­Swift, Exam., No. 21.  “The assertions of this author are easier detected.”—­Swift:  censured in Lowth’s Gram., p. 93.  “The characteristic of his sect allowed him to affirm no stronger than that.”—­Bentley:  ibid. “If one author had spoken nobler and loftier than an other.”—­Id., ib. “Xenophon says express.”—­Id., ib. “I can never think so very mean of him.”—­Id., ib. “To convince all that are ungodly among them, of all their ungodly deeds, which they have ungodly committed.”—­Jude, 15th:  ib. “I think it very masterly written.”—­Swift to Pope, Let. 74:  ib. “The whole design must refer to the golden age, which it lively represents.”—­Addison, on Medals:  ib. “Agreeable to this, we read of names being blotted out of God’s book.”—­BURDER:  approved in Webster’s Impr.  Gram., p. 107; Frazee’s, 140; Maltby’s, 93.  “Agreeable to the law of nature, children are bound to support their indigent parents.”—­Webster’s Impr.  Gram., p. 109.  “Words taken independent of their meaning are parsed as nouns of the neuter gender.”—­Maltby’s Gr., 96.

   “Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.”—­Beaut. of Shak., p. 236.

UNDER NOTE XI.—­THEM FOR THOSE.

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