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.

“While the house was being built, many of the tribe arrived.”—­Ross Cox’s Travels, p. 102.  “But a foundation has been laid in Zion, and the church is being built upon it.”—­The Friend, ix, 377.  “And one fourth of the people are being educated.”—­East India Magazine.  “The present, or that which is now being done.”—­Beck’s Gram., p. 13.  “A new church, called the Pantheon, is just being completed in an expensive style.”—­G.  A. Thompson’s Guatemala, p. 467.  “When I last saw him, he was grown considerably.”—­Murray’s Key, p. 223; Merchants, 198.  “I know what a rugged and dangerous path I am got into.”—­Duncan’s Cicero, p. 83.  “You were as good preach case to one on the rack.”—­Locke’s Essay, p. 285.  “Thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation.”—­Psal., cxviii, 21.  “While the Elementary Spelling-Book was being prepared for the press.”—­L.  Cobb’s Review, p. vi.  “Language is become, in modern times, more correct and accurate.”—­Jamieson’s Rhet., p. 16.  “If the plan have been executed in any measure answerable to the author’s wishes.”—­Robbins’s Hist., p. 3.  “The vial of wrath is still being poured out on the seat of the beast.”—­Christian Experience, p. 409.  “Christianity was become the generally adopted and established religion of the whole Roman Empire.”—­Gurney’s Essays, p. 35.  “Who wrote before the first century was elapsed.”—­Ib., p. 13.  “The original and analogical form is grown quite obsolete.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 56.  “Their love, and their hatred, and their envy, are perished.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, 149.  “The poems were got abroad and in a great many hands.”—­Pref. to Waller.  “It is more harmonious, as well as more correct, to say, ’the bubble is almost bursted.’”—­Cobbett’s E. Gram., 109.  “I drave my suitor from his mad humour of love.”—­Shak.  “Se viriliter expedivit. (Cicero.) He hath plaid the man.”—­Walker’s Particles, p. 214.  “Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday.”—­FRIENDS’ BIBLE:  Acts, vii, 28.  “And we, methoughts, look’d up t’him from our hill.”—­Cowley’s Davideis, B. iii, l. 386.  “I fear thou doest not think as much of best things as thou oughtest.”—­Memoir of M. C. Thomas, p. 34.  “When this work was being commenced.”—­Wright’s Gram., p. 10.  “Exercises and Key to this work are being prepared.”—­Ib., p. 12.  “James is loved, or being loved by John.”—­Ib., p. 64.  “Or that which is being exhibited.”—­Ib., p. 77.  “He was being smitten.”—­Ib., p. 78.  “In the passive state we say, ’I am being loved.’”—­Ib., p. 80.  “Subjunctive Mood:  If I am being smitten, If thou art being smitten, If he is being smitten.”—­Ib., p. 100.  “I will not be able to convince you how superficial the reformation is.”—­Chalmers’s Sermons, p. 88.  “I said to myself, I will be obliged to expose the folly.”—­Chazotte’s

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