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.
Crusoe, p. 2.  “Though James is here the object of the action, yet, he is in the nominative case.”—­Wright’s Gram., p. 64.  “Here, John is the actor; and is known to be the nominative, by its answering to the question, ’Who struck Richard?’”—­Ib., p. 43.  “One of the most distinguished privileges which Providence has conferred on mankind, is the power of communicating their thoughts to one another.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 9.  “With some of the most refined feelings which belong to our frame.”—­Ib., p. 13.  “And the same instructions which assist others in composing, will assist them in judging of, and relishing, the beauties of composition.”—­Ib., p. 12.  “To overthrow all which had been yielded in favour of the army.”—­Mrs. Macaulay’s Hist., i, 335.  “Let your faith stand in the Lord God who changes not, and that created all, and gives the increase of all.”—­Friends’ Advices, 1676.  “For it is, in truth, the sentiment or passion, which lies under the figured expression, that gives it any merit.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 133.  “Verbs are words which affirm the being, doing, or suffering of a thing, together with the time it happens.”—­Al.  Murray’s Gram., p. 29.  “The Byass will always hang on that side, that nature first placed it.”—­Locke, on Ed., p. 177.  “They should be brought to do the things are fit for them.”—­Ib., p. 178.  “Various sources whence the English language is derived.”—­Murray’s Gram., Vol. ii, p. 286.  “This attention to the several cases, when it is proper to omit and when to redouble the copulative, is of considerable importance.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 113.  “Cicero, for instance, speaking of the cases where killing another is lawful in self defence, uses the following words.”—­Ib., p. 156.  “But there is no nation, hardly any person so phlegmatic, as not to accompany their words with some actions and gesticulations, on all occasions, when they are much in earnest.”—­Ib., p. 335. “William’s is said to be governed by coat, because it follows William’s”—­Smith’s New Gram., p. 12.  “There are many occasions in life, in which silence and simplicity are true wisdom.”—­Murray’s Key, ii, 197.  “In choosing umpires, the avarice of whom is excited.”—­Nixon’s Parser, p. 153.  “The boroughs sent representatives, which had been enacted.”—­Ib., p. 154.  “No man believes but what there is some order in the universe.”—­Anon. “The moon is orderly in her changes, which she could not be by accident.”—­Id. “Of Sphynx her riddles, they are generally two kinds.”—­Bacons Wisdom, p. 73.  “They must generally find either their Friends or Enemies in Power.”—­Brown’s Estimate, Vol. ii, p. 166.  “For of old, every one took upon them to write what happened in their own time.”—­Josephus’s Jewish War, Pref., p. 4.  “The Almighty cut off the family of Eli the high priest, for its
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