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.
Hist., ii, 106.  “Thou sawedst every action.”—­Guy’s School Gram., p. 46.  “I taught, thou taughtedst, he or she taught.”—­Coar’s Gram., p. 79.  “Valerian is taken by Sapor and flead alive, A. D. 260.”—­Lempriere’s Chron.  Table, Dict., p. xix.  “What a fine vehicle is it now become for all conceptions of the mind!”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 139.  “What are become of so many productions?” —­Volney’s Ruins, p. 8.  “What are become of those ages of abundance and of life?”—­Keith’s Evidences, p. 107.  “The Spartan admiral was sailed to the Hellespont.”—­Goldsmiths Greece, i, 150.  “As soon as he was landed, the multitude thronged about him.”—­Ib., i, 160.  “Cyrus was arrived at Sardis.”—­Ib., i, 161.  “Whose year was expired.”—­Ib., i, 162.  “It had better have been, ‘that faction which.’”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 97.  “This people is become a great nation.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 153; Ingersoll’s, 249.  “And here we are got into the region of ornament.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 181.  “The ungraceful parenthesis which follows, had far better have been avoided.”—­Ib., p. 215.  “Who forced him under water, and there held him until drounded.”—­Indian Wars, p. 55.

   “I had much rather be myself the slave,
    And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him.”—­Cowper.

UNDER NOTE XIII.—­WORDS THAT EXPRESS TIME.

“I had finished my letter before my brother arrived.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 139.  “I had written before I received his letter.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 82.  “From what has been formerly delivered.”—­Ib., p. 182.  “Arts were of late introduced among them.”—­Ib., p. 245.  “I am not of opinion that such rules can be of much use, unless persons saw them exemplified.”—­Ib., p. 336.  “If we use the noun itself, we should say, ’This composition is John’s.’ “—­Murray’s Gram., p. 174.  “But if the assertion referred to something, that is not always the same, or supposed to be so, the past tense must be applied.”—­Ib., p. 191.  “They told him, that Jesus of Nazareth passeth by.”—­Luke, xviii, 37.  “There is no particular intimation but that I continued to work, even to the present moment.”—­R.  W. Green’s Gram., p. 39.  “Generally, as was observed already, it is but hinted in a single word or phrase.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 36.  “The wittiness of the passage was already illustrated.”—­Ib., p. 36.  “As was observed already.”—­Ib., p. 56.  “It was said already in general.”—­Ib., p. 95.  “As I hinted already.”—­Ib., p. 134.  “What I believe was hinted once already.”—­Ib., p. 148.  “It is obvious, as hath been hinted formerly, that this is but an artificial and arbitrary connexion.”—­Ib., p. 282.  “They have done anciently a great deal of hurt.”—­Bolingbroke, on Hist., p. 109.  “Then said Paul, I knew

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