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.

“Though he was not known by them letters, or the name Christ.”—­Wm. Bayly’s Works, p. 94.  “In a gig, or some of them things.”—­Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent, p. 35.  “When cross-examined by them lawyers.”—­Ib., p. 98.  “As the custom in them cases is.”—­Ib., p. 101.  “If you’d have listened to them slanders.”—­Ib., p. 115.  “The old people were telling stories about them fairies, but to the best of my judgment there’s nothing in it.”—­Ib., p. 188.  “And is it not a pity that the Quakers have no better authority to substantiate their principles than the testimony of them old Pharisees?”—­Hibbard’s Errors of the Quakers, p. 107.

UNDER NOTE XII.—­THIS AND THAT.

“Hope is as strong an incentive to action, as fear:  this is the anticipation of good, that of evil.”—­Brown’s Institutes, p. 135.  “The poor want some advantages which the rich enjoy; but we should not therefore account those happy, and these miserable.”—­Ib.

   “Ellen and Margaret fearfully,
    Sought comfort in each other’s eye;
    Then turned their ghastly look each one,
    This to her sire, that to her son.”
        Scott’s Lady of the Lake, Canto ii, Stanza 29.

    “Six youthful sons, as many blooming maids,
    In one sad day beheld the Stygian shades;
    These by Apollo’s silver bow were slain,
    Those Cynthia’s arrows stretched upon the plain.”
        —­Pope, Il., xxiv, 760.

    “Memory and forecast just returns engage,
    This pointing back to youth, that on to age.” 
        —­See Key.

UNDER NOTE XIII.—­EITHER AND NEITHER.

“These make the three great subjects of discussion among mankind; truth, duty, and interest.  But the arguments directed towards either of them are generically distinct.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 318.  “A thousand other deviations may be made, and still either of them may be correct in principle.  For these divisions and their technical terms, are all arbitrary.”—­R.  W. Green’s Inductive Gram., p. vi.  “Thus it appears, that our alphabet is deficient, as it has but seven vowels to represent thirteen different sounds; and has no letter to represent either of five simple consonant sounds.”—­Churchill’s Gram., p. 19.  “Then neither of these [five] verbs can be neuter.”—­Oliver B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 343.  “And the asserter is in neither of the four already mentioned.”—­Ib., p. 356.  “As it is not in either of these four.”—­Ib., p. 356.  “See whether or not the word comes within the definition of either of the other three simple cases.”—­Ib., p. 51.  “Neither of the ten was there.”—­Frazee’s Gram., p. 108.  “Here are ten oranges, take either of them.”—­Ib., p. 102.  “There are three modes, by either of which recollection will generally be supplied; inclination, practice, and association.”—­Rippingham’s Art of Speaking, p. xxix.  “Words not reducible to either of the three preceding heads.”—­Fowler’s E. Gram., 8vo, 1850, pp. 335 and 340.  “Now a sentence may be analyzed in reference to either of these [four] classes.”—­Ib., p. 577.

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