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.

“To be moderate in our views, and to proceed temperately in the pursuit of them, are the best ways to ensure success.”—­L.  Murray cor. “To be of any species, and to have a right to the name of that species, are both one.”—­Locke cor. “With whom, to will, and to do, are the same.”—­Dr. Jamieson cor. “To profess, and to possess, are very different things.”—­Inst., Key, p. 272.  “To do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God, are duties of universal obligation.”—­Ib. “To be round or square, to be solid or fluid, to be large or small, and to be moved swiftly or slowly, are all equally alien from the nature of thought.”—­Dr. Johnson. “The resolving of a sentence into its elements, or parts of speech, and [a] stating [of] the accidents which belong to these, are called PARSING.”  Or, according to Note 1st above:  “The resolving of a sentence into its elements, or parts of speech, with [a] stating [of] the accidents which belong to these, is called PARSING.”—­Bullions cor. “To spin and to weave, to knit and to sew, were once a girl’s employments; but now, to dress, and to catch a beau, are all she calls enjoyments.”—­Kimball cor.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XVII AND ITS NOTES.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—­NOMINATIVES CONNECTED BY OR.

“We do not know in what either reason or instinct consists.”—­Johnson corrected. “A noun or a pronoun joined with a participle, constitutes a nominative case absolute.”—­Bicknell cor. “The relative will be of that case which the verb or noun following, or the preposition going before, uses to govern:”  or,—­“usually governs.”—­Adam, Gould, et al., cor. “In the different modes of pronunciation, which habit or caprice gives rise to.”—­Knight cor. “By which he, or his deputy, was authorized to cut down any trees in Whittlebury forest.”—­Junius cor. “Wherever objects were named, in which sound, noise, or motion, was concerned, the imitation by words was abundantly obvious.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “The pleasure or pain resulting from a train of perceptions in different circumstances, is a beautiful contrivance of nature for valuable purposes.”—­Kames cor. “Because their foolish vanity, or their criminal ambition, represents the principles by which they are influenced, as absolutely perfect.”—­D.  Boileau cor. “Hence naturally arises indifference or aversion between the parties.”—­Dr. Brown cor. “A penitent unbeliever, or an impenitent believer, is a character nowhere to be found.”—­Tract cor. “Copying whatever is peculiar in the talk of all those whose birth or fortune entitles them to imitation.”—­Johnson cor. “Where love, hatred, fear, or contempt,

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