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.

   “How beauty is excell’d by manly grace
    And wisdom, which alone is truly fair.”—­Milton, B. iv, l. 490.

    “What art thou, speak, that on designs unknown,
    While others sleep, thus range the camp alone?”—­Pope, Il., x, 90.

UNDER NOTE II.—­NOMINATIVE WITH ADJUNCTS.

“The literal sense of the words are, that the action had been done.”—­Dr. Murray’s Hist. of Lang., i, 65.  “The rapidity of his movements were beyond example.”—­Wells’s Hist., p. 161.  “Murray’s Grammar, together with his Exercises and Key, have nearly superseded every thing else of the kind.”—­EVAN’S REC.:  Murray’s Gram., 8vo, ii, 305.  “The mechanism of clocks and watches were totally unknown.”—­HUME:  Priestley’s Gram., p. 193.  “The it, together with the verb to be, express states of being.”—­Cobbett’s Eng.  Gram., 190.  “Hence it is, that the profuse variety of objects in some natural landscapes, neither breed confusion nor fatigue.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., i, 266.  “Such a clatter of sounds indicate rage and ferocity.”—­Music of Nature, p. 195.  “One of the fields make threescore square yards, and the other only fifty-five.”—­Duncan’s Logic, p. 8.  “The happy effects of this fable is worth attending to.”—­Bailey’s Ovid, p. x.  “Yet the glorious serenity of its parting rays still linger with us.”—­Gould’s Advocate.  “Enough of its form and force are retained to render them uneasy.”—­Maturin’s Sermons, p. 261.  “The works of nature, in this respect, is extremely regular.”—­Dr. Pratt’s Werter.  “No small addition of exotic and foreign words and phrases have been made by commerce.”—­Bicknell’s Gram., Part ii, p. 10.  “The dialect of some nouns are taken notice of in the notes.”—­Milnes, Greek Gram., p. 255.  “It has been said, that a discovery of the full resources of the arts, afford the means of debasement, or of perversion.”—­Rush, on the Voice, p. xxvii.  “By which means the Order of the Words are disturbed.”—­Holmes’s Rhet., B. i, p. 57.  “The twofold influence of these and the others require the asserter to be in the plural form.”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 251.  “And each of these afford employment.”—­Percival’s Tales, Vol. ii, p. 175.  “The pronunciation of the vowels are best explained under the rules relative to the consonants.”—­Coar’s Gram., p. 7.  “The judicial power of these courts extend to all cases in law and equity.”—­Hall and Baker’s School Hist., p. 286.  “One of you have stolen my money.”—­Rational Humorist, p. 45.  “Such redundancy of epithets, instead of pleasing, produce satiety and disgust.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 256.  “It has been alleged, that a compliance with the rules of Rhetoric, tend to cramp the mind.”—­Hiley’s Gram., 3d Ed., p. 187.  “Each of these are presented to us in different relations”—­Hendrick’s Gram., 1st Ed., p. 34.  “The past tense of these verbs, should, would, might, could, are very indefinite with respect to time.”—­Bullions, E. Gram., 2d Ed., p. 33; 5th Ed., p. 31.  “The power of the words, which are said to govern this mood, are distinctly understood.”—­Chandler’s Gram., Ed. of 1821, p. 33.

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