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.
cannot enter into the spirit of the author, or relish the composition.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “The scholar should be instructed in relation to the finding of his words.”  Or thus:  “The scholar should be told how to find his words.”—­Osborn cor. “And therefore they could neither have forged, nor have reversified them.”—­Knight cor. “A dispensary is a place at which medicines are dispensed to the poor.”—­L.  Mur. cor. “Both the connexion and the number of words are determined by general laws.”—­Neef cor. “An Anapest has the first two syllables unaccented, and the last one accented; as, c~ontr~av=ene, acquiesce.”—­L.  Mur. cor. “An explicative sentence is one in which a thing is said, in a direct manner, to be or not to be, to do or not to do, to suffer or not to suffer.”—­Lowth and Mur. cor. “BUT is a conjunction whenever it is neither an adverb nor a preposition.” [551]—­R.  C. Smith cor. “He wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed the writing with the king’s ring.”—­Bible cor. “Camm and Audland had departed from the town before this time.”—­Sewel cor.Before they will relinquish the practice, they must be convinced.”—­Webster cor. “Which he had thrown up before he set out.”—­Grimshaw cor. “He left to him the value of a hundred drachms in Persian money.”—­Spect cor. “All that the mind can ever contemplate concerning them, must be divided among the three.”—­Cardell cor. “Tom Puzzle is one of the most eminent immethodical disputants, of all that have fallen under my observation.”—­Spect. cor. “When you have once got him to think himself compensated for his suffering, by the praise which is given him for his courage.”—­Locke cor. “In all matters in which simple reason, or mere speculation is concerned.”—­Sheridan cor. “And therefore he should be spared from the trouble of attending to anything else than his meaning.”—­Id. “It is this kind of phraseology that is distinguished by the epithet idiomatical; a species that was originally the spawn, partly of ignorance, and partly of affectation.”—­Campbell and Murray cor. “That neither the inflection nor the letters are such as could have been employed by the ancient inhabitants of Latium.”—­Knight cor. “In those cases in which the verb is intended to be applied to any one of the terms.”—­L.  Murray cor. “But these people who know not the law, are accursed.”—­Bible cor. “And the magnitude of the choruses has weight and sublimity.”—­Gardiner cor.Dares he deny that there are some of his fraternity guilty?”—­Barclay cor. “Giving an account of most, if not
Copyrights
Project Gutenberg
The Grammar of English Grammars from Project Gutenberg. Public domain.