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.
a noun.”—­Id., and Fowle cor. “Though their reason corrected the wrong ideas which they had taken in.”—­Locke cor. “It was he that taught me to hate slavery.”—­Morris cor. “It is he and his kindred, who live upon the labour of others.”—­Id. “Payment of tribute is an acknowledgement of him as being King—­(of him as King—­or, that he is King—­) to whom we think it due.”—­C.  Leslie cor. “When we comprehend what is taught us.”—­Ingersoll cor. “The following words, and parts of words, must be noticed.”—­Priestley cor. “Hence tears and commiseration are so often employed.”—­Dr. H. Blair cor. “JOHN-A-NOKES, n. A fictitious name used in law proceedings.”—­A.  Chalmers cor. “The construction of words denoting matter, and the part grasped.”—­B.  F. Fisk cor. “And such other names as carry with them the idea of something terrible and hurtful.”—­Locke cor. “Every learner then would surely be glad to be spared from the trouble and fatigue.”—­Pike cor.It is not the owning of one’s dissent from an other, that I speak against.”—­Locke cor. “A man that cannot fence, will be more careful to keep out of bullies and gamesters’ company, and will not be half so apt to stand upon punctilios.”—­Id. “From such persons it is, that one may learn more in one day, than in a year’s rambling from one inn to an other.”—­Id. “A long syllable is generally considered to be twice as long as a short one.”—­D.  Blair cor. “I is of the first person, and the singular number.  THOU is of the second person singular.  HE, SHE, or IT, is of the third person singular.  WE is of the first person plural.  YE or YOU is of the second person plural.  THEY is of the third person plural.”—­Kirkham cor. “This actor, doer, or producer of the action, is denoted by some word in the nominative case.”—­Id.Nobody can think, that a boy of three or seven years of age should be argued with as a grown man.”—­Locke cor. “This was in the house of one of the Pharisees, not in Simon the leper’s.”—­Hammond cor. “Impossible! it can’t be I.”—­Swift cor. “Whose grey top shall tremble, He descending.”—­Milton, P. L., xii, 227. “Of what gender is woman, and why?”—­R.  C. Smith cor.Of what gender, then, is man, and why?”—­Id. “Who is this I; whom do you mean when you say I?”—­R.  W. Green cor. “It has a pleasant air, but the soil is barren.”—­Locke cor. “You may, in three days’ time, go from Galilee to Jerusalem.”—­W.  Whiston cor. “And that which is left of the meat-offering, shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.”—­FRIENDS’ BIBLE.

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