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.
are admitted into the English tongue.”—­Ib., p. 101.  “The five examples last mentioned, are corrected on the same principle that the preceding examples are corrected.”—­Ib., p. 186; Ingersoll’s Gram., 254.  “The brazen age began at the death of Trajan, and lasted till the time that Rome was taken by the Goths.”—­Gould’s Lat.  Gram., p. 277.  “The introduction to the Duodecimo Edition, is retained in this volume, for the same reason that the original introduction to the Grammar, is retained in the first volume.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, Vol. ii, p. iv.  “The verb must also be of the same person that the nominative case is.”—­Ingersoll’s Gram., p. 16.  “The adjective pronoun their, is plural for the same reason that who is.”—­Ib., p. 84.  “The Sabellians could not justly be called Patripassians, in the same sense that the Noetians were so called.”—­Religious World, Vol. ii, p. 122.  “This is one reason that we pass over such smooth language, without suspecting that it contains little or no meaning.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 298.  “The first place that both armies came in sight of each other was on the opposite banks of the river Apsus.”—­Goldsmith’s Rome, p. 118.  “At the very time that the author gave him the first book for his perusal.”—­Campbell’s Rhetoric, Preface, p. iv.  “Peter will sup at the time that Paul will dine.”—­Fosdick’s De Sacy, p. 81.  “Peter will be supping at the time that Paul will enter.”—­Ibid. “These, at the same time that they may serve as models to those who may wish to imitate them, will give me an opportunity to cast more light upon the principles of this book.”—­Ib., p. 115.

   “Time was, like thee, they life possest,
    And time shall be, that thou shalt rest.” 
        —­PARNELL; Mur.  Seq., p. 241.

UNDER NOTE VII.—­OF THE CORRESPONDENTS.

“Our manners should neither be gross, nor excessively refined.”—­Merchant’s Gram., p. 11.  “A neuter verb expresses neither action or passion, but being, or a state of being.”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 342.  “The old books are neither English grammars, or grammars, in any sense of the English Language.”—­Ib., p. 378.  “The author is apprehensive that his work is not yet as accurate and as much simplified as it may be.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 7.  “The writer could not treat some topicks as extensively as was desirable.”—­Ib., p. 10.  “Which would be a matter of such nicety, as no degree of human wisdom could regulate.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, 26.  “No undertaking is so great or difficult which he cannot direct.”—­Duncan’s Cic., p. 126.  “It is a good which neither depends on the will of others, nor on the affluence of external fortune.”—­Harris’s Hermes, 299; Murray’s Gram., i, 289.  “Not only his estate, his reputation too has

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