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.

“In the temper of mind he was then.”—­Addison, Spect., No. 54.  “To bring them into the condition I am at present.”—­Spect., No. 520.  “In the posture I lay.”—­Swift’s Gulliver.  “In the sense it is sometimes taken.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 527.  “Tools and utensils are said to be right, when they serve for the uses they were made.”—­Collier’s Antoninus, p. 99.  “If, in the extreme danger I now am, I do not imitate the behaviour of those,” &c.—­Goldsmith’s Greece, i, 193.  “News was brought, that Darius was but twenty miles from the place they then were.”—­Ib., ii, 113.  “Alexander, upon hearing this news, continued four days in the place he then was.”—­Ib., ii, 113.  “To read, in the best manner it is now taught.”—­L.  Murray’s Gram., p. 246.  “It may be expedient to give a few directions as to the manner it should be studied.”—­Hallock’s Gram., p. 9.  “Participles are words derived from verbs, and convey an idea of the acting of an agent, or the suffering of an object, with the time it happens.”—­Alex.  Murray’s Gram., p. 50.

   “Had I but serv’d my God with half the zeal
    I serv’d my king, he would not in mine age
    Have left me naked to mine enemies.”—­Beauties of Shak., p. 173.

UNDER NOTE IX.—­ADVERBS FOR RELATIVES.

“In compositions where pronunciation has no place.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 101.  “They framed a protestation, where they repeated their claims.”—­Hume’s Hist.  “Which have reference to Substances, where Sex never had existence.”—­Harris’s Hermes, p. 43.  “Which denote substances where sex never had existence.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 38; Fisk’s, 57.  “There is no rule given how truth may be found out.”—­Walker’s Particles, p. 160.  “The nature of the objects whence they are taken.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 165.  “That darkness of character, where we can see no heart.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 236.  “The states where they negotiated.”—­Formey’s Belles-Lettres, p. 159.  “Till the motives whence men act be known.”—­Beattie’s Moral Science, p. 262.  “He assigns the principles whence their power of pleasing flows.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 19.  “But I went on, and so finished this History in that form as it now appears.”—­Sewel’s Preface, p. v.  “By prepositions we express the cause why, the instrument by which, wherewith, or the manner how a thing is done.”—­Alex.  Murray’s Gram., p. 128; John Burn’s, 121.  “They are not such in the language whence they are derived.”—­Town’s Analysis, p. 13.  “I find it very hard to persuade several, that their passions are affected by words from whence they have no ideas.”—­Burke, on the Sublime, p. 95.  “The known end, then, why we are placed in a state of so much affliction, hazard, and difficulty, is our improvement in virtue and piety.”—­Butler’s Anal., p. 109.

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