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.
adjective.”—­Dr. Ash’s Gram., p. 39; E.  Devis’s, 9.  “I will have learned my grammar before you learn your’s.”—­Wilbur and Liv.  Gram., p. 14.  “There is no earthly object capable of making such various and such forcible impressions upon the human mind as a complete speaker.”—­Perry’s Dict., Pref. “It was not the carrying the bag which made Judas a thief and an hireling.”—­South.  “As the reasonable soul and flesh is one man, so God and man is one Christ.”—­Athanasian Creed.  “And I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.”—­Hosea, ii, 23.  “Where there is nothing in the sense which requires the last sound to be elevated or emphatical, an easy fall, sufficient to show that the sense is finished, will be proper.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, 250.  “Each party produces words where the letter a is sounded in the manner they contend for.”—­Walker’s Dict., p. 1.  “To countenance persons who are guilty of bad actions, is scarcely one remove from actually committing them.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, 233. “’To countenance persons who are guilty of bad actions,’ is part of a sentence, which is the nominative case to the verb ‘is.’”—­Ibid. “What is called splitting of particles, or separating a preposition from the noun which it governs, is always to be avoided.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 112; Jamieson’s, 93.  See Murray’s Gram., i, 319.  “There is, properly, no more than one pause or rest in the sentence, falling betwixt the two members into which it is divided.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 125; Jamieson’s, 126; Murray’s Gram., i, 329.  “Going barefoot does not at all help on the way to heaven.”—­Steele, Spect., No. 497.  “There is no Body but condemns this in others, though they overlook it in themselves.”—­Locke, on Ed., Sec.145.  “In the same sentence, be careful not to use the same word too frequently, nor in different senses.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, 296.  “Nothing could have made her so unhappy, as marrying a man who possessed such principles.”—­Murray’s Key, ii, 200.  “A warlike, various, and a tragical age is best to write of, but worst to write in.”—­Cowley’s Pref., p. vi.  “When thou instances Peter his baptizing Cornelius.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 188.  “To introduce two or more leading thoughts or agents, which have no natural relation to, or dependence on one another.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, 313.  “Animals, again, are fitted to one another, and to the elements where they live, and to which they are as appendices.”—­Ibid. “This melody, or varying the sound of each word so often, is a proof of nothing, however, but of the fine ear of that people.”—­Jamieson’s Rhet., p. 5.  “They can each in their turns be made use of upon occasion.”—­Duncan’s Logic, p. 191.  “In this reign lived the poet Chaucer, who, with Gower, are the first authors
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