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.
Christian.”—­Ib., p. 180.  “Five minutes notice is given by the bell.”—­Ib., p. 211.  “The Annals of Education gives notice of it.”—­Ib., p. 240.  “Teacher’s meetings will be interesting and useful.”—­Ib., p. 243.  “She thought an half hour’s study would conquer all the difficulties.”—­Ib., p. 257.  “The difference between an honest and an hypocritical confession.”—­Ib., p. 263.  “There is no point of attainment where we must stop.”—­Ib., p. 267.  “Now six hours is as much as is expected of teachers.”—­Ib., p. 268.  “How much is seven times nine?”—­Ib., p. 292.  “Then the reckoning proceeds till it come to ten hundred.”—­Frost’s Practical Gram., p. 170.  “Your success will depend on your own exertions; see, then, that you are diligent.”—­Ib., p. 142.  “Subjunctive Mood, Present Tense:  If I am known, If thou art known.  If he is known:  etc.”—­Ib., p. 91.  “If I be loved, If thou be loved, If he be loved;” &c.—­Ib., p. 85.  “An Interjection is a word used to express sudden emotion.  They are so called, because they are generally thrown in between the parts of a sentence without any reference to the structure of the other parts of it.”—­Ib., p. 35.  “The Cardinals are those which simplify or denote number; as one, two, three.”—­Ib., p. 31.  “More than one organ is concerned in the utterance of almost every consonant.”—­Ib., p. 21.  “To extract from them all the Terms we make use in our Divisions and Subdivisions of the Art.”—­Holmes’s Rhetoric, Pref.  “And there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.”—­Ezekiel, ii, 10.  “If I were to be judged as to my behaviour, compared with that of John’s.”—­Josephus, Vol. 5, p. 172.  “When the preposition to signifies in order to, it used to be preceded by for, which is now almost obsolete; What went ye out for to see.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 132.  “This makes the proper perfect tense, which, in English, is always expressed by the help of the auxiliary verb, ‘I have written.’”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 82.  “Indeed, in the formation of character, personal exertion is the first, the second, and the third virtues.”—­Sanders, Spelling-Book, p. 93.  “The reducing them to the condition of the beasts that perish.”—­Dymond’s Essays, p. 67.  “Yet this affords no reason to deny that the nature of the gift is not the same, or that both are not divine.”—­Ib., p. 68.  “If God have made known his will.”—­Ib., p. 98.  “If Christ have prohibited them, [i.e., oaths,] nothing else can prove them right.”—­Ib., p. 150 “That the taking them is wrong, every man who simply consults his own heart, will know.”—­Ib., p. 163.  “These evils would be spared the world, if one did not write.”—­Ib., p. 168.  “It is in a great degree our own faults.”—­Ib., p. 200.  “It is worthy observation that lesson-learning
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