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.
a future, better, and perfect revelation.”—­Keith cor.Es then makes an other and distinct syllable.”—­Brightland cor. “The eternal clamours of a selfish and factious people.”—­Dr. Brown cor. “To those whose taste in elocution is but little cultivated.”—­Kirkham cor. “They considered they had but a sort of gourd to rejoice in.”—­Bennet cor. “Now there was but one such bough, in a spacious and shady grove.”—­Bacon cor. “Now the absurdity of this latter supposition will go a great way towards making a man easy.”—­Collier cor. “This is true of mathematics, with which taste has but little to do.”—­Todd cor. “To stand prompter to a pausing yet ready comprehension.”—­Rush cor. “Such an obedience as the yoked and tortured negro is compelled to yield to the whip of the overseer.”—­Chalmers cor. “For the gratification of a momentary and unholy desire.”—­Wayland cor. “The body is slenderly put together; the mind, a rambling sort of thing.”—­Collier cor. “The only nominative to the verb, is officer.”—­Murray cor. “And though in general it ought to be admitted, &c.”—­Blair cor. “Philosophical writing admits of a polished, neat, and elegant style.”—­Id. “But notwithstanding this defect, Thomson is a strong and beautiful describer.”—­Id. “So should he be sure to be ransomed, and many poor men’s lives should be saved.”—­Shak. cor.

   “Who felt the wrong, or feared it, took alarm,
    Appealed to law, and Justice lent her arm.”—­Pope cor.

LESSON IV.—­ARTICLES CHANGED.

“To enable us to avoid too frequent a repetition of the same word.”—­Bucke cor. “The former is commonly acquired in a third part of the time.”—­Burn cor. “Sometimes an adjective becomes a substantive; and, like other substantives, it may have an adjective relating to it:  as, ‘The chief good.’”—­L.  Murray cor. “An articulate sound is a sound of the human voice, formed by the organs of speech.”—­Id.  “A tense is a distinction of time:  there are six tenses.”—­Maunder cor. “In this case, an ellipsis of the last article would be improper.”—­L.  Hurray cor. “Contrast always has the effect to make each of the contrasted objects appear in a stronger light.”—­Id. et al.  “These remarks may serve to show the great importance of a proper use of the articles.”—­Lowth et al. cor. “‘Archbishop Tillotson,’ says the author of a history of England, ‘died in this year.’”—­Dr. Blair cor. “Pronouns are used in stead of substantives, to prevent too frequent a repetition of them.”—­A.  Murray cor.

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