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.
their fathers, brothers, and uncles, cannot, as good relations and good citizens, excuse themselves for not standing forth to demand vengeance.”—­Murray’s Sequel, p. 114.  “Alleging, that their decrial of the church of Rome, was a uniting with the Turks.”—­Barclay cor. “To which is added the Catechism by the Assembly of Divines.”—­N.  E. Prim. cor. “This treachery was always present in the thoughts of both of them.”—­ Robertson cor. “Thus far their words agree.”  Or:  “Thus far the words of both agree.”—­W.  Walker cor. “Aparithmesis is an enumeration of the several parts of what, as a whole, might be expressed in few words.”—­Gould cor. “Aparithmesis, or Enumeration, is a figure in which what might be expressed in a few words, is branched out into several parts.”—­Dr. Adam cor. “Which may sit from time to time, where you dwell, or in the vicinity.”—­J.  O. Taylor cor. “Place together a large-sized animal and a small one, of the same species.”  Or:  “Place together a large and a small animal of the same species.”—­Kames cor. “The weight of the swimming body is equal to that of the quantity of fluid displaced by it.”—­Percival cor. “The Subjunctive mood, in all its tenses, is similar to the Optative.”—­Gwilt cor. “No feeling of obligation remains, except that of an obligation to fidelity.”—­Wayland cor. “Who asked him why whole audiences should be moved to tears at the representation of some story on the stage.”—­Sheridan cor.Are you not ashamed to affirm that the best works of the Spirit of Christ in his saints are as filthy rags?”—­Barclay cor. “A neuter verb becomes active, when followed by a noun of kindred signification.”—­Sanborn cor. “But he has judged better in forbearing to repeat the article the.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “Many objects please us, and are thought highly beautiful, which have scarcely any variety at all.”—­Id. “Yet they sometimes follow them.”—­Emmons cor. “For I know of nothing more important in the whole subject, than this doctrine of mood and tense.”—­R.  Johnson cor. “It is by no means impossible for an error to be avoided or suppressed.”—­Philol.  Museum cor. “These are things of the highest importance to children and youth.”—­Murray cor. “He ought to have omitted the word many.”  Or:  “He might better have omitted the word many.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “Which might better have been separated.”  Or:  “Which ought rather to have been separated.”—­Id. “Figures and metaphors, therefore, should never be used profusely.”—­Id. and Jam. cor. “Metaphors, or other figures, should never be used in too great abundance.”—­Murray and Russell cor. “Something like this has been alleged against Tacitus.”—­ Bolingbroke cor.

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