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.
“I know of no other periodical that is so valuable to the teacher, as the Annals of Education.”—­Id. “Are not these schools of the highest importance?  Should not every individual feel a deep interest in their character and condition?”—­Id. “If instruction were made a liberal profession, teachers would feel more sympathy for one an other.”—­Id. “Nothing is more interesting to children, than novelty, or change.”—­Id. “I know of no other labour which affords so much happiness as the teacher’s.”—­Id. “Their school exercises are the most pleasant and agreeable duties, that they engage in.”—­Id. “I know of no exercise more beneficial to the pupil than that of drawing maps.”—­Id. “I know of nothing in which our district schools are more defective, than they are in the art of teaching grammar.”—­Id. “I know of no other branch of knowledge, so easily acquired as history.”—­Id. “I know of no other school exercise for which pupils usually have such an abhorrence, as for composition.”—­Id. “There is nothing belonging to our fellow-men, which we should respect more sacredly than their good name.”—­Id.Surely, never any other creature was so unbred as that odious man.”—­Congreve cor. “In the dialogue between the mariner and the shade of the deceased.”—­Phil.  Museum cor. “These master-works would still be less excellent and finished.”—­Id. “Every attempt to staylace the language of polished conversation, renders our phraseology inelegant and clumsy.”—­Id. “Here are a few of the most unpleasant words that ever blotted paper.”—­Shakespeare cor. “With the most easy and obliging transitions.”—­Broome cor. “Fear is, of all affections, the least apt to admit any conference with reason.”—­Hooker cor. “Most chymists think glass a body less destructible than gold itself.”—­Boyle cor. “To part with unhacked edges, and bear back our barge undinted.”—­Shak. cor. “Erasmus, who was an unbigoted Roman Catholic, was transported with this passage.”—­Addison cor. “There are no fewer than five words, with any of which the sentence might have terminated.”—­Campbell cor. “The ones preach Christ of contention; but the others, of love.”  Or, “The one party preach,” &c.—­Bible cor. “Hence we find less discontent and fewer heart-burnings, than where the subjects are unequally burdened.”—­H.  Home, Ld.  Kames, cor.

   “The serpent, subtlest beast of all the field.”
        —­Milton, P. L., B. ix, l. 86.

    “Thee, Serpent, subtlest beast of all the field,
    I knew, but not with human voice indued.”
        —­Id., P. L., B. ix, l. 560.

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