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.
p. 59.  “From their denoting reciprocation.”—­Ib., p. 64.  “To allow them the making use of that liberty.”—­Sale’s Koran, p. 116.  “The worst effect of it is, the fixing on your mind a habit of indecision.”—­Todd’s Student’s Manual, p. 60.  “And you groan the more deeply, as you reflect that there is no shaking it off.”—­Ib., p. 47.  “I know of nothing that can justify the having recourse to a Latin translation of a Greek writer.”—­Coleridge’s Introduction, p. 16.  “Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly.”—­Hazlitt’s Lectures.  “There are remarkable instances of their not affecting each other.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 150.  “The leaving Caesar out of the commission was not from any slight.”—­Life of Cicero, p. 44.  “Of the receiving this toleration thankfully I shall say no more.”—­Dryden’s Works, p. 88.  “Henrietta was delighted with Julia’s working lace so very well.”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 255.  “And it is from their representing each two different words that the confusion has arisen.”—­Booth’s Introd., p. 42.  “AEschylus died of a fracture of his skull, caused by an eagle’s letting fall a tortoise on his head.”—­Biog.  Dict. “He doubted their having it.”—­Felch’s Comp.  Gram., p. 81.  “The making ourselves clearly understood, is the chief end of speech.”—­Sheridan’s Elocution, p. 68.  “There is no discovering in their countenances, any signs which are the natural concomitants of the feelings of the heart.”—­Ib., p. 165.  “Nothing can be more common or less proper than to speak of a river’s emptying itself.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 186.  “Our not using the former expression, is owing to this.”—­Bullions’s E. Gram., p. 59.

UNDER NOTE IV.—­DISPOSAL OF ADVERBS.

“To this generally succeeds the division, or the laying down the method of the discourse.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 311.  “To the pulling down of strong holds.”—­2 Cor., x, 4.  “Can a mere buckling on a military weapon infuse courage?”—­Brown’s Estimate, i, 62.  “Living expensively and luxuriously destroys health.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, 234.  “By living frugally and temperately, health is preserved.”—­Ibid. “By living temperately, our health is promoted.”—­Ib., p. 227.  “By the doing away of the necessity.”—­The Friend, xiii, 157.  “He recommended to them, however, the immediately calling of the whole community to the church.”—­Gregory’s Dict., w.  Ventriloquism.  “The separation of large numbers in this manner certainly facilitates the reading them rightly.”—­Churchill’s Gram., p. 303.  “From their merely admitting of a twofold grammatical construction.”—­Philol.  Museum, i. 403.  “His gravely lecturing his friend about it.”—­Ib., i, 478.  “For the blotting out of sin.”—­Gurney’s Evidences, p. 140.  “From the not using

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