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.
Moral Science, p. 128.  “And nobody else would make that city their refuge any more.”—­Josephus’s Life, p. 158.  “What is quantity, as it respects syllables or words?  It is that time which is occupied in pronouncing it.”—­Bradley’s Gram., p. 108.  “In such expressions the adjective so much resembles an adverb in its meaning, that they are usually parsed as such.”—­Bullions, E. Gram., p. 103.  “The tongue is like a race-horse; which runs the faster the less weight it carries.”—­ADDISON:  Joh.  Dict.; Murray’s Key, Rule 8.  “As two thoughtless boys were trying to see which could lift the greatest weight with their jaws, one of them had several of his firm-set teeth wrenched from their sockets.”—­Newspaper.  “Everybody nowadays publishes memoirs; everybody has recollections which they think worthy of recording.”—­Duchess D’Abrantes, p. 25.  “Every body trembled for themselves or their friends.”—­Goldsmith’s Greece, i, 171.

   “A steed comes at morning:  no rider is there;
    But its bridle is red with the sign of despair.”—­Campbell.

UNDER NOTE I.—­PRONOUNS WRONG OR NEEDLESS.

“Charles loves to study; but John, alas! he is very idle.”—­Merchant’s School Gram., p. 22.  “Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?”—­Matt., vii, 9.  “Who, in stead of going about doing good, they are perpetually intent upon doing mischief.”—­ Tillotson.  “Whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pontius Pilate.”—­Acts, iii, 13.  “Whom, when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber.”—­Acts, ix, 37.  “Then Manasseh knew that the Lord he was God.”—­2 Chron., xxxiii, 13.  “Whatever a man conceives clearly, he may, if he will be at the trouble, put it into distinct propositions, and express it clearly to others.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 293.  “But to that point of time which he has chosen, the painter being entirely confined, he cannot exhibit various stages of the same action.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 52.  “It is without any proof at all what he subjoins.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 301.  “George Fox his Testimony concerning Robert Barclay.”—­Ib., i, 111.  “According to the author of the Postscript his advice.”—­Ib., iii, 263.  “These things seem as ugly to the Eye of their Meditations, as those AEthiopians pictur’d in Nemesis her Pitcher.”—­Bacon’s Wisdom of the Ancients, p. 49.  “Moreover, there is always a twofold Condition propounded with Sphynx her AEnigma’s.”—­Ib., p. 73.  “Whoever believeth not therein, they shall perish.”—­Sale’s Koran, p. 20.  “When, at Sestius his entreaty, I had been at his house.”—­Walker’s Particles, p. 59.

   “There high on Sipylus his shaggy brow,
    She stands, her own sad monument of woe.”
        —­Pope’s Homer, B. xxiv, l. 777.

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