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.
from it.”—­Bible cor. “If ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brethren their trespasses.”—­Id.None ever fancied they were slighted by him, or had the courage to think themselves his betters.”—­Collier cor. “And Rebecca took some very good clothes of her eldest son Esau’s, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son.”—­Gen. cor. “Where all the attention of men is given to their own indulgence.”—­Maturin cor. “The idea of a father is a notion superinduced to that of the substance, or man—­let one’s idea of man be what it will.”—­Locke cor. “Leaving all to do as they list.”—­Barclay cor. “Each person performed his part handsomely.”—­J.  Flint cor. “This block of marble rests on two layers of stones, bound together with lead, which, however, has not prevented the Arabs from forcing out several of them.”—­Parker and Fox cor.

“Love gives to all our powers a double power, Above their functions and their offices.”  Or:—­ “Love gives to every power a double power, Exalts all functions and all offices.”—­Shak. cor.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XI; OF PRONOUNS.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—­THE IDEA OF PLURALITY.

“The jury will be confined till they agree on a verdict.”—­Brown’s Inst., p. 145.  “And mankind directed their first cares towards the needful.”—­Formey cor. “It is difficult to deceive a free people respecting their true interest.”—­Life of Charles XII cor. “All the virtues of mankind are to be counted upon a few fingers, but their follies and vices are innumerable.”—­Swift cor. “Every sect saith, ’Give us liberty:’  but give it them, and to their power, and they will not yield it to any body else.”—­Cromwell cor. “Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up themselves as a young lion.”—­Bible cor. “For all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.”—­Id. “There happened to the army a very strange accident, which put them in great consternation.”—­Goldsmith cor.

UNDER NOTE I.—­THE IDEA OF UNITY.

“The meeting went on with its business as a united body.”—­Foster cor. “Every religious association has an undoubted right to adopt a creed for itself.”—­Gould cor. “It would therefore be extremely difficult to raise an insurrection in that state against its own government.”—­Dr. Webster cor. “The mode in which a lyceum can apply itself in effecting a reform in common schools.”—­N.  Y. Lyc. cor. “Hath a nation changed its gods, which yet are no gods?”—­Jer. cor. “In the holy Scriptures, each of the twelve tribes of Israel is often called by the name of the patriarch from whom it descended.”  Or better:—­“from whom the tribe descended.”—­Adams cor.

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