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 all the vices, covetousness is that which enters the most deeply into the soul.”—­Campbell cor. “The vice of covetousness is a fault which enters more deeply into the soul than any other.”—­Guardian cor. “WOULD primarily denotes inclination of will; and SHOULD, obligation:  but they vary their import, and are often used to express simple events.”  Or:—­“but both of them vary their import,” &c.  Or:—­“but both vary their import, and are used to express simple events.”—­Lowth, Murray, et al. cor.; also Comly and Ingersoll; likewise Abel Flint.  “A double condition, in two correspondent clauses of a sentence, is sometimes made by the word HAD; as, ’Had he done this, he had escaped.’”—­Murray and Ingersoll cor. “The pleasures of the understanding are preferable to those of the imagination, as well as to those of sense.”—­L.  Murray cor. “Claudian, in a fragment upon the wars of the giants, has contrived to render this idea of their throwing of the mountains, which in itself has so much grandeur, burlesque and ridiculous.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “To which not only no other writings are to be preferred, but to which, even in divers respects, none are comparable.”—­Barclay cor. “To distinguish them in the understanding, and treat of their several natures, in the same cool manner that we use with regard to other ideas.”—­Sheridan cor. “For it has nothing to do with parsing, or the analyzing of language.”—­Kirkham cor. Or:  “For it has nothing to do with the parsing, or analyzing, of language.”—­Id. “Neither has that language [the Latin] ever been so common in Britain.”—­Swift cor. “All that I purpose, is, to give some openings into the pleasures of taste.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “But the following sentences would have been better without it.”—­L.  Murray cor. “But I think the following sentence would be better without it.”  Or:  “But I think it should be expunged from the following sentence.”—­ Priestley cor. “They appear, in this case, like ugly excrescences jutting out from the body.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “And therefore the fable of the Harpies, in the third book of the AEneid, and the allegory of Sin and Death, in the second book of Paradise Lost, ought not to have been inserted in these celebrated poems.”—­Id. “Ellipsis is an elegant suppression, or omission, of some word or words, belonging to a sentence.”—­Brit.  Gram. and Buchanan cor. “The article A or AN is not very proper in this construction.”—­D.  Blair cor. “Now suppose the articles had not been dropped from these passages.”—­Bucke cor. “To have given a separate name
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