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. “It in no wise follows, that such a one was able to predict.”—­Id. “With a harmless patience, they have borne most heavy oppressions.”—­Id. “My attendance was to make me a happier man.”—­Spect. cor. “On the wonderful nature of a human mind.”—­Id. “I have got a hussy of a maid, who is most craftily given to this.”—­Id. “Argus is said to have had a hundred eyes, some of which were always awake.”—­Stories cor. “Centiped, having a hundred feet; centennial, consisting of a hundred years.”—­Town cor. “No good man, he thought, could be a heretic.”—­Gilpin cor. “As, a Christian, an infidel, a heathen.”—­Ash cor. “Of two or more words, usually joined by a hyphen.”—­Blair cor. “We may consider the whole space of a hundred years as time present.”—­Ingersoll’s Gram., p. 138.  “In guarding against such a use of meats and drinks.”—­Ash cor. “Worship is a homage due from man to his Creator.”—­Monitor cor. “Then a eulogium on the deceased was pronounced.”—­Grimshaw cor. “But for Adam there was not found a help meet for him.”—­Bible cor. “My days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a hearth.”—­Id. “A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat thereof.”—­Id. “The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; a high hill, as the hill of Bashan.”—­Id. “But I do declare it to have been a holy offering, and such a one too as was to be once for all.”—­Penn cor. “A hope that does not make ashamed those that have it.”—­Barclay cor. “Where there is not a unity, we may exercise true charity.”—­Id. “Tell me, if in any of these such a union can be found?”—­Dr. Brown cor.

   “Such holy drops her tresses steeped,
    Though ’twas a hero’s eye that weeped.”—­Sir W. Scott cor.

LESSON II.—­ARTICLES INSERTED.

“This veil of flesh parts the visible and the invisible world.”—­Sherlock cor. “The copulative and the disjunctive conjunctions operate differently on the verb.”—­L.  Murray cor. “Every combination of a preposition and an article with the noun.”—­Id.Either signifies, ‘the one or the other:’  neither imports, ‘not either;’ that is, ’not the one nor the other.’”—­Id. “A noun of multitude may have a pronoun or a verb agreeing with it, either of the singular number or of the plural.”—­Bucke cor.The principal copulative conjunctions are, and, as, both, because, for, if, that, then, since.”—­Id. “The two real genders are the masculine and the feminine.”—­Id. “In which a mute and a liquid are represented by the same character, th.”—­Gardiner

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