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.
OF THE WORLD:  Kames, El. of Crit., i, 304.  “If thou meetest them, thou must put on an intrepid mien.”—­Neef’s Method of Ed., p. 201.  “Struck with terror, as if Philip was something more than human.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 265.  “If the personification of the form of Satan was admissible, it should certainly have been masculine.”—­Jamieson’s Rhet., p. 176.  “If only one follow, there seems to be a defect in the sentence.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 104.  “Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him.”—­John, xx, 15.  “Blessed be the people that know the joyful sound.”—­Psalms, lxxxix, 15.  “Every auditory take in good part those marks of respect and awe, which are paid them by one who addresses them.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 308.  “Private causes were still pleaded [in the forum]:  but the public was no longer interested; nor any general attention drawn to what passed there.”—­Ib., p. 249.  “Nay, what evidence can be brought to show, that the Inflection of the Classic tongues were not originally formed out of obsolete auxiliary words?”—­Murray’s Gram., i, p. 112.  “If the student reflects, that the principal and the auxiliary forms but one verb, he will have little or no difficulty, in the proper application of the present rule.”—­Ib., p. 183.  “For the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.”—­Jeremiah, vi, 26.  “Even the Stoics agree that nature and certainty is very hard to come at.”—­Collier’s Antoninus, p. 71.  “His politeness and obliging behaviour was changed.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 186.  “His politeness and obliging behaviour were changed.”—­Hume’s Hist., Vol. vi, p. 14.  “War and its honours was their employment and ambition.”—­Goldsmith.  “Does a and an mean the same thing?”—­R.  W. Green’s Gram., p. 15.  “When a number of words come in between the discordant parts, the ear does not detect the error.”—­Cobbett’s Gram., 185.  “The sentence should be, ‘When a number of words comes in,’ &c.”—­Wright’s Gram., p. 170.  “The nature of our language, the accent and pronunciation of it, inclines us to contract even all our regular verbs.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 45.  “The nature of our language, together with the accent and pronunciation of it, incline us to contract even all our Regular Verbs.”—­Hiley’s Gram., p. 45.  “Prompt aid, and not promises, are what we ought to give.”—­Author.  “The position of the several organs therefore, as well as their functions are ascertained.”—­Medical Magazine, 1833, p. 5.  “Every private company, and almost every public assembly, afford opportunities of remarking the difference between a just and graceful, and a faulty and unnatural elocution.”—­Enfield’s Speaker, p. 9.  “Such submission, together with the active principle of obedience, make up the temper and character in us which answers to his sovereignty.”—­ Butler’s Analogy, p. 126.  “In happiness, as in other things, there is a false and a true, an imaginary and a real.”—­Fuller, on the Gospel, p. 134.  “To confound things that differ, and to make a distinction where there is no difference, is equally unphilosophical.”—­Author.

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