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.

“It was necessary to have both the physician’s and the surgeon’s advice.”—­L.  Murray’s False Syntax, Rule 10.  “This outside fashionableness of the tailor’s or the tirewoman’s making.”—­Locke cor. “Some pretending to be of Paul’s party, others of Apollos’s, others of Cephas’s, and others, (pretending yet higher,) to be of Christ’s.”—­Wood cor. “Nor is it less certain, that Spenser and Milton’s spelling agrees better with our pronunciation.”—­Phil.  Museum cor. “Law’s, Edwards’s, and Watts’s Survey of the Divine Dispensations.”  Or thus:  “Law, Edwards, and Watts’s, Surveys of the Divine Dispensations.”—­Burgh cor. “And who was Enoch’s Saviour, and the prophets’?”—­Bayly cor. “Without any impediment but his own, his parents’, or his guardian’s will.”—­Journal corrected.  “James relieves neither the boy’s nor the girl’s distress.”—­Nixon cor. “John regards neither the master’s nor the pupil’s advantage.”—­Id. “You reward neither the man’s nor the woman’s labours.”—­Id. “She examines neither James’s nor John’s conduct.”—­Id. “Thou pitiest neither the servant’s nor the master’s injuries.”—­Id. “We promote England’s or Ireland’s happiness.”—­Id. “Were Cain’s and Abel’s occupation the same?”—­G.  Brown.  “Were Cain and Abel’s occupations the same?”—­Id. “What was Simon and Andrew’s employment?”—­Id. “Till he can read for himself Sanctius’s Minerva with Scioppius’s and Perizonius’s Notes.”—­Locke cor.

   “And love and friendship’s finely-pointed dart
    Falls blunted from each indurated heart.”  Or:—­

    “And love’s and friendship’s finely-pointed dart
    Fall blunted from each indurated heart.”—­Goldsmith cor.

UNDER NOTE III.—­CHOICE OF FORMS.

“But some degree of trouble is the portion of all men.”—­L.  Murray et al. cor. “With the names of his father and mother upon the blank leaf.”—­Abbott cor. “The general, in the name of the army, published a declaration.”—­Hume cor. “The vote of the Commons.”—­Id. “The House of Lords.”—­Id. “A collection of the faults of writers;”—­or, “A collection of literary faults.”—­Swift cor. “After ten years of wars.”—­Id. “Professing his detestation of such practices as those of his predecessors.”—­Pope cor. “By that time I shall have ended my year of office.”—­W.  Walker cor. “For the sake of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip.”—­Bible and Mur. cor. “I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they may also obtain salvation.”—­Bibles

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