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.
of such a subject.”—­Spect. cor. “For I do not recollect it preceded by an open vowel.”—­Knight cor. “Such is the setting up of the form above the power of godliness.”—­Barclay cor. “I remember that I was walking once with my young acquaintance.”—­Hunt cor. “He did not like to pay a debt.”—­Id. “I do not remember to have seen Coleridge when I was a child.”—­Id. “In consequence of the dry rot discovered in it, the mansion has undergone a thorough repair.”—­Maunder cor. “I would not advise the following of the German system in all its parts.”—­Lieber cor. “Would it not be to make the students judges of the professors?”—­Id. “Little time should intervene between the proposing of them and the deciding upon them.”—­Verthake [sic—­KTH] cor. “It would be nothing less than to find fault with the Creator.”—­Lit.  Journal cor.That we were once friends, is a powerful reason, both of prudence and of conscience, to restrain us from ever becoming enemies.”—­Secker cor. “By using the word as a conjunction, we prevent the ambiguity.”—­L.  Murray cor.

   “He forms his schemes the flood of vice to stem,
    But faith in Jesus has no part in them.”—­J Taylor cor.

LESSON VIII.—­ADVERBS.

“Auxiliaries not only can be inserted, but are really understood.”—­Wright cor. “He was afterwards a hired scribbler in the Daily Courant.”—­Pope’s Annotator cor. “In gardening, luckily, relative beauty never need stand (or, perhaps better, never needs to stand) in opposition to intrinsic beauty.”—­Kames cor. “I much doubt the propriety of the following examples.”—­Lowth cor. “And [we see] how far they have spread, in this part of the world, one of the worst languages possible”—­Locke cor. “And, in this manner, merely to place him on a level with the beast of the forest.”—­R.  C. Smith cor.Whither, ah! whither, has my darling fled.”—­Anon.  “As for this fellow, we know not whence he is.”—­Bible cor. “Ye see then, that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.”—­Id. “The Mixed kind is that in which the poet sometimes speaks in his own person, and sometimes makes other characters speak.”—­Adam and Gould cor. “Interrogation is a rhetorical figure in which the writer or orator raises questions, and, if he pleases, returns answers.”—­Fisher cor. “Prevention is a figure in which an author starts an objection which he foresees may be made, and gives an answer to it.”—­Id. “Will you let me alone, or not?”—­W.  Walker cor. “Neither man nor woman can resist an engaging exterior.”—­ Chesterfield

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