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.
“And thence up to the intentionally and voluntarily fraudulent.”—­Id. “And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other.”—­SCOTT’S, FRIENDS’, ALGER’S, BRUCE’S BIBLE, AND OTHERS:  Acts, xv, 39.  “Here the man is John, and John is the man; so the words are imagination and fancy; but THE imagination and THE fancy are not words:  they are intellectual powers.”—­Rev. M. Harrison cor. “The article, which is here so emphatic in the Greek, is quite forgotten in our translation.”—­Id. “We have no fewer than twenty-four pronouns.”—­Id. “It will admit of a pronoun joined to it.”—­Id. “From intercourse and from conquest, all the languages of Europe participate one with an other.”—­Id. “It is not always necessity, therefore, that has been the cause of our introducing of terms derived from the classical languages.”—­Id. “The man of genius stamps upon it any impression that pleases him.”  Or:  “any impression that he chooses.”—­Id. “The proportion of names ending in SON preponderates greatly among the Dano-Saxon population of the North.”—­Id. “As a proof of the strong similarity between the English language and the Danish.”—­Id. “A century from the time when (or at which) Hengist and Horsa landed on the Isle of Thanet.”—­Id.

   “I saw the colours waving in the wind,
    And them within, to mischief how combin’d.”—­Bunyan cor.

LESSON III.—­UNDER VARIOUS RULES.

“A ship excepted:  of which we say, ‘She sails well.’”—­Jonson cor. “Honesty is reckoned of little worth.”—­Lily cor. “Learn to esteem life as you ought.”—­Dodsley cor. “As the soundest health is less perceived than the lightest malady, so the highest joy toucheth us less sensibly than the smallest sorrow.”—­Id.Youth is no apology for frivolousness.”—­Whiting cor. “The porch was of the same width as the temple.”—­Milman cor. “The other tribes contributed neither to his rise nor to his downfall.”—­Id. “His whole religion, with all its laws, would have been shaken to its foundation.”—­Id. “The English has most commonly been neglected, and children have been taught only in the Latin syntax.”—­J.  Ward cor. “They are not noticed in the notes.”—­ Id. “He walks in righteousness, doing what he would have others do to him.”—­Fisher cor. “They stand independent of the rest of the sentence.”—­Ingersoll cor. “My uncle and his son were in town yesterday.”—­Lennie cor. “She and her sisters are well.”—­Id. “His purse, with its contents, was abstracted

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