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.

“For, of all villains, I think he has the wrong name.”—­Bunyan’s P. P., p. 86.  “Of all the men that I met in my pilgrimage, he, I think bears the wrong name.”—­Ib., p. 84.  “I am surprized to see so much of the distribution, and technical terms of the Latin grammar, retained in the grammar of our tongue.”—­Priestley’s Gram., Pref., p. vi.  “Nor did the Duke of Burgundy bring him the smallest assistance.”—­HUME:  Priestley’s Gram., p. 178.  “Else he will find it difficult to make one obstinate believe him.”—­Brightland’s Gram., p. 243.  “Are there any adjectives which form the degrees of comparison peculiar to themselves?”—­Infant School Gram., p. 46.  “Yet the verbs are all of the indicative mood.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 33.  “The word candidate is in the absolute case.”—­L.  Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 155.  “An Iambus has the first syllable unaccented, and the latter accented.”—­Russell’s Gram., p. 108; Smith’s New Gram., 188.  “A Dactyl has the first syllable accented, and the two latter unaccented.”—­L.  Murray, p. 253; Bullions’s E. Gram., 170; Smith’s, 188; Kirkham’s, 219; Guy’s, 120; Blair’s, 118; Merchant’s, 167; Russell’s, 109.  “It is proper to begin with a capital the first word of every book, chapter, letter, note, or any other piece of writing.”—­L.  Murray, p. 284; R.  C. Smith’s New Gram., 192; Ingersoll’s, 295; Comly’s, 166; Merchant’s, 14; Greenleaf’s, 42; D.  C. Allen’s, 85; Fisk’s, 159; Bullions’s, 158; Kirkham’s, 219; Hiley’s, 119; Weld’s Abridged, 16; Bullions’s Analyt. and Pract., 16; Fowler’s E. Gr., 674.  “Five and seven make twelve, and one makes thirteen.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 227.  “I wish to cultivate a farther acquaintance with you.”—­Ib., p. 272.  “Let us consider the proper means to effect our purpose.”—­Ib., p. 276.  “Yet they are of such a similar nature, as readily to mix and blend.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 48.  “The Latin is formed on the same model, but more imperfect.”—­Ib., p. 83.  “I know very well how much pains have been taken.”—­Sir W. Temple.  “The management of the breath requires a good deal of care.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 331.  “Because the mind, during such a momentary stupefaction, is in a good measure, if not totally, insensible.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., Vol. i, p. 222.  “Motives alone of reason and interest are not sufficient.”—­Ib., Vol. i, p. 232.  “To render the composition distinct in its parts, and striking on the whole,”—­Ib., Vol. ii, p. 333. “A and an are named indefinite because they denote some one thing of a kind.”—­Maunder’s Gram., p. 1. “The is named definite, because it points out some particular thing.”—­Ibid. “So much depends upon the proper construction of sentences, that, in every sort of composition, we

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