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.
cor. “Shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?”—­ALGER’S BIBLE:  Heb., xii, 9.  “He [Dr. Beattie] was more anxious to attain the character of a Christian hero.”—­Murray cor. “Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion.”—­W.  Allen’s Gram., p. 393.  “The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.”—­ALGER, FRIENDS, ET AL.:  Heb., xiii, 6.  “Make haste to help me, O LORD my salvation.”—­IIDEM:  Psalms, xxxviii, 22.

   “The city which thou seest, no other deem
    Than great and glorious Rome, queen of the earth.”
        —­Paradise Regained, B. iv.

LESSON II.—­MIXED EXAMPLES.

“That range of hills, known under the general name of Mount Jura.”—­Account of Geneva.  “He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up.”—­FRIENDS’ BIBLE:  Ps. cvi, 9.  “Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives.”—­Bible cor. “Milton’s book in reply to the Defence of the King, by Salmasius, gained him a thousand pounds from the Parliament, and killed his antagonist with vexation.”—­G.  B.  “Mandeville, Sir John, an Englishman famous for his travels, born about 1300, died in 1372.”—­B.  Dict. cor. “Ettrick Pen, a mountain in Selkirkshire, Scotland, height 2,200 feet.”—­G.  Geog. cor. “The coast bends from Dungsby Head, in a northwest direction, to the promontory of Dunnet Head.”—­Id. “General Gaines ordered a detachment of nearly 300 men, under the command of Major Twiggs, to surround and take an Indian village, called Fowltown, about fourteen miles from Fort Scott.”—­Cohen Cor. “And he took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, ‘Talitha, cumi.’”—­Bible Editors cor. “On religious subjects, a frequent adoption of Scripture language is attended with peculiar force.”—­Murray cor. “Contemplated with gratitude to their Author, the Giver of all good.”—­Id. “When he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all [the] truth,”—­SCOTT, ALGER, ET AL.:  John, xvi, 13.  “See the Lecture on Verbs, Rule XV, Note 4th.”—­Fisk cor. “At the commencement of Lecture 2d, I informed you that Etymology treats, thirdly, of derivation.”—­Kirkham cor. “This 8th Lecture is a very important one.”—­Id. “Now read the 11th and 12th lectures, four or five times over.”—­Id. “In 1752, he [Henry Home] was advanced to the bench, under the title of Lord Kames.”—­Murray cor. “One of his maxims was, ‘Know thyself.’”—­Lempriere cor. “Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?”—­FRIENDS’ BIBLE:  Matt., xix, 16.  “His

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