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.
by means of something already known”—­DR. JOHNSON:  Murray’s Gram., i, 163; Ingersoll’s, 214.  “O fairest flower, no sooner blown but blasted!”—­ Milton’s Poems, p, 132.  “Architecture and gardening cannot otherwise entertain the mind, but by raising certain agreeable emotions or feelings.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 318.  “Or, rather, they are nothing else but nouns.”—­British Gram., p. 95.

   “As if religion were intended
    For nothing else but to be mended.”—­Hudibras, p. 11.

UNDER NOTE V.—­RELATIVES EXCLUDE CONJUNCTIONS.

“To prepare the Jews for the reception of a prophet mightier than him, and whose shoes he was not worthy to bear.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 214.  “Has this word which represents an action an object after it, and on which it terminates?”—­Osborn’s Key, p. 3.  “The stores of literature lie before him, and from which he may collect, for use, many lessons of wisdom.”—­ Knapp’s Lectures, p. 31.  “Many and various great advantages of this Grammar, and which are wanting in others, might be enumerated.”—­ Greenleaf’s Gram., p. 6.  “About the time of Solon, the Athenian legislator, the custom is said to have been introduced, and which still prevails, of writing in lines from left to right.”—­Jamieson’s Rhet., p. 19.  “The fundamental rule of the construction of sentences, and into which all others might be resolved, undoubtedly is, to communicate, in the clearest and most natural order, the ideas which we mean to transfuse into the minds of others.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 120; Jamieson’s, 102.  “He left a son of a singular character, and who behaved so ill that he was put in prison.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 221.  “He discovered some qualities in the youth, of a disagreeable nature, and which to him were wholly unaccountable.”—­Ib., p. 213.  “An emphatical pause is made, after something has been said of peculiar moment, and on which we want [’desire’ M.] to fix the hearer’s attention.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 331; Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 248.  “But we have duplicates of each, agreeing in movement, though differing in measure, and which make different impressions on the ear.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 259.

UNDER NOTE VI.—­OF THE WORD THAT.

“It will greatly facilitate the labours of the teacher, at the same time that it will relieve the pupil of many difficulties.”—­Frost’s El. of E. Gram., p. 4.  “At the same time that the pupil is engaged in the exercises just mentioned, it will be a proper time to study the whole Grammar in course.”—­Bullions, Prin. of E. Gram., Revised Ed., p. viii.  “On the same ground that a participle and auxiliary are allowed to form a tense.”—­BEATTIE:  Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 76.  “On the same ground that the voices, moods, and tenses,

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