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.
Rhet., p. 2.  “Go and tell them boys to be still.”—­Inst., p. 135.  “Wrongs are engraved on marble; benefits, on sand:  these are apt to be requited; those, forgot.”—­B.  “Neither of these several interpretations is the true one.”—­B.  “My friend indulged himself in some freaks unbefitting the gravity of a clergyman.”—­B.  “And their Pardon is All that either of their Impropriators will have to plead.”—­Right of Tythes, p. 196.  “But the time usually chosen to send young Men abroad, is, I think, of all other, that which renders them least capable of reaping those Advantages.”—­Locke, on Ed., p. 372.  “It is a mere figment of the human imagination, a rhapsody of the transcendent unintelligible.”—­Jamieson’s Rhet., p. 120.  “It contains a greater assemblage of sublime ideas, of bold and daring figures, than is perhaps any where to be met with.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 162.  “The order in which the two last words are placed, should have been reversed.”—­Ib., p. 204.  “The orders in which the two last words are placed, should have been reversed.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 310.  “In Demosthenes, eloquence shown forth with higher splendour, than perhaps in any that ever bore the name of an orator.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 242.  “The circumstance of his being poor is decidedly favorable.”—­ Student’s Manual, p. 286.  “The temptations to dissipation are greatly lessened by his being poor.”—­Ib., p. 287.  “For with her death that tidings came.”—­Beauties of Shak., p. 257.  “The next objection is, that these sort of authors are poor.”—­Cleland.  “Presenting Emma as Miss Castlemain to these acquaintance.”—­Opie’s Temper.  “I doubt not but it will please more than the opera.”—­Spect., No. 28.  “The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.”—­Ben Jonson.  “I distinguish these two things from one another.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 29.  “And in this case, mankind reciprocally claim, and allow indulgence to each other.”—­Sheridan’s Lect., p. 29.  “The six last books are said not to have received the finishing hand of the author.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 438.  “The best executed part of the work, is the first six books.”—­Ib., p. 447.

   “To reason how can we be said to rise? 
    So many cares attend the being wise.”—­Sheffield.

LESSON IV.—­PRONOUNS.

“Once upon a time a goose fed its young by a pond side.”—­Goldsmith’s Essays, p. 175.  “If either [work] have a sufficient degree of merit to recommend them to the attention of the public.”—­Walker’s Rhyming Dict., p. iii.  “Now W. Mitchell his deceit is very remarkable.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 264 “My brother, I did not put the question to thee, for that I doubted of the truth of your belief.”—­Bunyan’s P. P., p. 158.  “I had two elder brothers, one of which was a lieutenant-colonel.”—­Robinson

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