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.

“Give every word, and every member, their due weight and force.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 110.  “And to one of these belong every noun, and every third person of every verb.”—­Wilson’s Essay on Gram., p. 74.  “No law, no restraint, no regulation, are required to keep him in bounds.”—­Literary Convention, p. 260.  “By that time, every window and every door in the street were full of heads.”—­N.  Y. Observer, No. 503.  “Every system of religion, and every school of philosophy, stand back from this field, and leave Jesus Christ alone, the solitary example”—­The Corner Stone, p. 17.  “Each day, and each hour, bring their portion of duty.”—­Inst., p. 156.  “And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him.”—­1 Sam., xxii, 2.  “Every private Christian and member of the church ought to read and peruse the Scriptures, that they may know their faith and belief founded upon them.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 340.  “And every mountain and island were moved out of their places.”—­Rev., vi, 14.

   “No bandit fierce, no tyrant mad with pride,
    No cavern’d hermit rest self-satisfied.”

UNDER NOTE V.—­WITH, OR, &c.  FOR AND.

“The side A, with the sides B and C, compose the triangle.”—­Tobitt’s Gram., p. 48; Felch’s, 69; Ware’s, 12.  “The stream, the rock, or the tree, must each of them stand forth, so as to make a figure in the imagination.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 390.  “While this, with euphony, constitute, finally, the whole.”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 293.  “The bag, with the guineas and dollars in it, were stolen.”—­Cobbett’s E. Gram., 246.  “Sobriety, with great industry and talent, enable a man to perform great deeds.”—­Ib., 245.  “The it, together with the verb to be, express states of being.”—­Ib., 190.  “Where Leonidas the Spartan king, with his chosen band, fighting for their country, were cut off to the last man.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., Vol. i, p. 203.  “And Leah also, with her children, came near and bowed themselves.”—­Gen., xxxiii, 7.  “The First or Second will, either of them, by themselves coalesce with the Third, but not with each other.”—­Harris’s Hermes, p. 74.  “The whole must centre in the query, whether Tragedy or Comedy are hurtful and dangerous representations?”—­Formey’s Belles-Lettres, p. 215.  “Grief as well as joy are infectious:  the emotions they raise in the spectator resemble them perfectly.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., i, 157.  “But in all other words the Qu are both sounded.”—­Ensell’s Gram., p. 16. “Qu (which are always together) have the sound of ku or k, as in queen, opaque.”—­ Goodenow’s Gram., p. 45.  “In this selection the ai form distinct syllables.”—­Walker’s Key, p. 290.  “And a considerable village,

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