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.
Inst., p. 269.  “Poverty and obscurity will oppress him only who esteems them oppressive.”—­Ib. “Good sense and refined policy are obvious to few, because they cannot be discovered but by a train of reflection.”—­Ib. “Avoid haughtiness of behaviour, and affectation of manners:  they imply a want of solid merit.”—­Ib. “If love and unity continue, they will make you partakers of one an other’s joy.”—­Ib. “Suffer not jealousy and distrust to enter:  they will destroy, like a canker, every germ of friendship.”—­Ib. “Hatred and animosity are inconsistent with Christian charity:  guard, therefore, against the slightest indulgence of them.”—­Ib. “Every man is entitled to liberty of conscience, and freedom of opinion, if he does not pervert them to the injury of others.”—­Ib.

   “With the azure and vermilion
    Which are mix’d for my pavilion.”—­Byron cor.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XIII; OF PRONOUNS.

ANTECEDENTS CONNECTED BY OR OR NOR.

“Neither prelate nor priest can give his [flock or] flocks any decisive evidence that you are lawful pastors.”—­Brownlee cor. “And is there a heart of parent or of child, that does not beat and burn within him?”—­ Maturin cor. “This is just as if an eye or a foot should demand a salary for its service to the body.”—­Collier cor. “If thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee.”—­Bible cor. “The same might as well be said of Virgil, or any great author; whose general character will infallibly raise many casual additions to his reputation.”—­Pope cor. “Either James or John,—­one or the other,—­will come.”—­Smith cor. “Even a rugged rock or a barren heath, though in itself disagreeable, contributes, by contrast, to the beauty of the whole.”—­Kames cor. “That neither Count Rechteren nor Monsieur Mesnager had behaved himself right in this affair.”—­Spect. cor. “If an Aristotle, a Pythagoras, or a Galileo, suffers for his opinions, he is a ’martyr.’”—­Fuller cor. “If an ox gore a man or a woman, that he or she die; then the ox shall surely be stoned.”—­Exod. cor. “She was calling out to one or an other, at every step, that a Habit was ensnaring him.”—­Johnson cor. “Here is a task put upon children, which neither this author himself, nor any other, has yet undergone.”—­R.  Johnson cor. “Hence, if an adjective or a participle be subjoined to the verb when the construction is singular, it will agree both in gender and in number with the collective noun.”—­Adam and Gould cor. “And if you can find a diphthong or a triphthong, be pleased to point that out too.”—­Bucke

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