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.
Gram., 8vo, p. 221.  “He was an excellent person; a mirror of ancient faith in early youth.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 172.  “The carrying on its several parts into execution.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 192.  “Concord, is the agreement which one word has over another, in gender, number, case, and person.”—­Folker’s Gram., p. 3.  “It might perhaps have given me a greater taste of its antiquities.”—­ADDISON:  Priestley’s Gram., p. 160.  “To call of a person, and to wait of him.”—­Priestley, ib., p. 161.  “The great difficulty they found of fixing just sentiments.”—­HUME:  ib., p. 161.  “Developing the difference between the three.”—­James Brown’s first American Gram., p. 12.  “When the substantive singular ends in x, ch soft, sh, ss, or s, we add es in the plural.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 40.  “We shall present him with a list or specimen of them.”—­Ib., p. 132.  “It is very common to hear of the evils of pernicious reading, of how it enervates the mind, or how it depraves the principles.”—­Dymond’s Essays, p. 168.  “In this example, the verb ‘arises’ is understood before ‘curiosity’ and ‘knowledge.’”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 274; Ingersoll’s, 286; Comly’s, 155; and others.  “The connective is frequently omitted between several words.”—­Wilcox’s Gram., p. 81.  “He shall expel them from before you, and drive them from out of your sight.”—­Joshua, xxiii, 5.  “Who makes his sun shine and his rain to descend upon the just and the unjust.”—­M’Ilvaine’s Lectures, p. 411.

LESSON X.—­MIXED EXAMPLES.

“This sentence violates the rules of grammar.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, Vol. ii, pp. 19 and 21.  “The words thou and shalt are again reduced to short quantities.”—­Ib., Vol. i, p. 246.  “Have the greater men always been the most popular?  By no means.”—­DR. LIEBER:  Lit.  Conv., p. 64.  “St. Paul positively stated that, ’he who loves one another has fulfilled the law.’”—­Spurzheim, on Education, p. 248.  “More than one organ is concerned in the utterance of almost every consonant.”—­M’Culloch’s Gram., p. 18.  “If the reader will pardon my descending so low.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 20.  “To adjust them so, as shall consist equally with the perspicuity and the grace of the period.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 118:  Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 324.  “This class exhibits a lamentable want of simplicity and inefficiency.”—­Gardiner’s Music of Nature, p. 481.  “Whose style flows always like a limpid stream, where we see to the very bottom.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 93.  “Whose style flows always like a limpid stream, through which we see to the very bottom.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 293.  “We make use of the ellipsis.” [447]—­Ib., p. 217.  “The ellipsis of the article is thus used.”—­Ib.,

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