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.
are all expressive.”—­Ib., 179.  “How exquisitely is this all performed in Greek!”—­Harris’s Hermes, p. 422.  “How little is all this to satisfy the ambition of an immortal soul!”—­ Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 253.  “So as to exhibit the object in its full and most striking point of view.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 41.  “And that the author know how to descend with propriety to the plain, as well as how to rise to the bold and figured style.”—­Ib., p. 401.  “The heart can only answer to the heart.”—­Ib., p. 259.  “Upon its first being perceived.”—­Harris’s Hermes, p. 229.  “Call for Samson, that he may make us sport.”—­Judges, xvi, 25.  “And he made them sport.”—­Ibid. “The term suffer in this definition is used in a technical sense, and means simply the receiving of an action, or the being acted upon.”—­Bullions, p. 29.  “The Text is what is only meant to be taught in Schools.”—­Brightland, Pref., p. ix.  “The perfect participle denotes action or being perfected or finished.”—­ Kirkham’s Gram., p. 78.  “From the intricacy and confusion which are produced by their being blended together.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 66.  “This very circumstance of a word’s being employed antithetically, renders it important in the sentence.”—­Kirkham’s Elocution, p. 121.  “It [the pronoun that] is applied to both persons and things.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 53.  “Concerning us, as being every where evil spoken of.”—­Barclay’s Works, Vol. ii, p. vi.  “Every thing beside was buried in a profound silence.”—­Steele.  “They raise more full conviction than any reasonings produce.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 367.  “It appears to me no more than a fanciful refinement.”—­Ib., p. 436.  “The regular resolution throughout of a complete passage.”—­Churchill’s Gram., p. vii.  “The infinitive is known by its being immediately preceded by the word to.”—­Maunders Gram., p. 6.  “It will not be gaining much ground to urge that the basket, or vase, is understood to be the capital.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., Vol. ii, p. 356.  “The disgust one has to drink ink in reality, is not to the purpose where the subject is drinking ink figuratively.”—­Ib., ii, 231.  “That we run not into the extreme of pruning so very close.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 111.  “Being obliged to rest for a little on the preposition by itself.”—­Ib., p. 112; Jamieson’s Rhet., 93.  “Being obliged to rest a little on the preposition by itself.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 319.  “Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.”—­1 Chron., xxix, 15.  “There maybe a more particular expression attempted, of certain objects, by means of resembling sounds.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 129; Jamieson’s, 130; Murray’s Gram., 331.  “The right disposition of the shade, makes the light and colouring strike the more.”—­Blair’s Rhet.,
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