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.
to this is the life of Fulvia!”—­Addison’s Spect., No. 15. “Loved is a participle or adjective, derived of the word love.”—­Dr. Ash’s Gram., p. 27.  “But I would inquire at him, what an office is?”—­Barclay’s Works, iii, 463.  “For the capacity is brought unto action.”—­Ib., iii, 420.  “In this period, language and taste arrive to purity.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 94.  “And should you not aspire at distinction in the republick of letters.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 13.  “Delivering you up to the synagogues, and in prisons.”—­Keith’s Evidences, p. 55.  “One that is kept from falling in a ditch, is as truly saved, as he that is taken out of one.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 312.  “The best on it is, they are but a sort of French Hugonots.”—­Addison, Spect., No. 62.  “These last Ten Examples are indeed of a different Nature to the former.”—­Johnson’s Gram.  Com., p. 333.  “For the initiation of students in the principles of the English language.”—­ANNUAL REVIEW:  Murray’s Gram., ii, 299.  “Richelieu profited of every circumstance which the conjuncture afforded,”—­Bolingbroke, on Hist., p. 177.  “In the names of drugs and plants, the mistake in a word may endanger life.”—­Murray’s Key, ii, 165.  “In order to the carrying on its several parts into execution.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 192.  “His abhorrence to the superstitious figure.”—­HUME:  Priestley’s Gram., p. 164.  “Thy prejudice to my cause.”—­DRYDEN:  ib., p. 164.  “Which is found among every species of liberty.”—­HUME:  ib., p. 169.  “In a hilly region to the north of Jericho.”—­Milman’s Jews, Vol. i, p. 8.  “Two or more singular nouns, coupled with AND, require a verb and pronoun in the plural.”—­Lennie’s Gram., p. 83.

   “Books should to one of these four ends conduce,
    For wisdom, piety, delight, or use.”—­Denham, p. 239.

UNDER NOTE II.—­TWO OBJECTS OR MORE.

“The Anglo-Saxons, however, soon quarrelled between themselves for precedence.”—­Constable’s Miscellany, xx, p. 59.  “The distinctions between the principal parts of speech are founded in nature.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 7.  “I think I now understand the difference between the active, passive, and neuter verbs.”—­Ingersoll’s Gram., p. 124.  “Thus a figure including a space between three lines, is the real as well as nominal essence of a triangle.”—­Locke’s Essay, p. 303.  “We must distinguish between an imperfect phrase, a simple sentence, and a compound sentence.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 117; Murray’s, i, 267; Ingersoll’s, 280; Guy’s, 97.  “The Jews are strictly forbidden by their law, to exercise usury among one another.”—­Sale’s Koran, p. 177.  “All the writers have distinguished themselves among one another.”—­Addison.  “This expression also better secures the systematic

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