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.
done, he can never be supposed to do.”—­R.  Johnson cor. “No skill could obviate, no remedy dispel, the terrible infection.”—­Goldsmith cor. “Prudery cannot be an indication either of sense or of taste.”—­Spurzheim cor. “But neither that scripture, nor any other, speaks of imperfect faith.”—­Barclay cor. “But neither this scripture, nor any other, proves that faith was or is always accompanied with doubting.”—­Id. “The light of Christ is not, and cannot be, darkness.”—­Id. “Doth not the Scripture, which cannot lie, give some of the saints this testimony?”—­Id. “Which do not continue, and are not binding.”—­Id. “It not being perceived directly, any more than the air.”—­Campbell cor. “Let us be no Stoics, and no stocks, I pray.”—­Shak. cor. “Where there is no marked or peculiar character in the style.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “There can be no rules laid down, nor any manner recommended.”—­Sheridan cor.

   “Bates.  ‘He hath not told his thought to the king?’
    K.  Henry.  ‘No; and it is not meet he should.’”
    Or thus:  “‘No; nor is it meet he should.’”—­Shak. cor.

UNDER NOTE IX.—­EVER AND NEVER.

“The prayer of Christ is more than sufficient both to strengthen us, be we everso weak; and to overthrow all adversary power, be it everso strong.”—­Hooker cor. “He is like to have no share in it, or to be never the better for it.”  Or:  “He is not likely to have any share in it, or to be ever the better for it.”—­Bunyan cor. “In some parts of Chili it seldom or never rains.”—­Willetts cor. “If Pompey shall but everso little seem to like it.”—­W.  Walker cor. “Though everso great a posse of dogs and hunters pursue him.”—­Id. “Though you be everso excellent.”—­Id. “If you do amiss everso little.”—­Id. “If we cast our eyes everso little down.”—­Id. “A wise man scorneth nothing, be it everso small or homely.”—­M.  F. Tupper cor. “Because they have seldom if ever an opportunity of learning them at all.”—­Clarkson cor. “We seldom or never see those forsaken who trust in God.”—­Atterbury cor.

   “Where, playing with him at bo-peep,
    He solved all problems, e’erso deep.”—­S.  Butler cor.

UNDER NOTE X.—­OF THE FORM OF ADVERBS.

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