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. 256.  “The preposition in is set before countries, cities, and large towns; as, ’He lives in France, in London, or in Birmingham.’  But before villages, single houses, and cities which are in distant countries, at is used; as, ’He lives at Hackney.’”—­Ib., p. 204; Dr. Ash’s Gram., 60; Ingersoll’s, 232; Smith’s, 170; Fisk’s, 143; et al. “And, in such recollection, the thing is not figured as in our view, nor any image formed.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., Vol. i, p. 86.  “Intrinsic and relative beauty must be handled separately.”—­Ib., Vol. ii, p. 336.  “He should be on his guard not to do them injustice, by disguising, or placing them in a false light.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 272.  “In that work, we are frequently interrupted by unnatural thoughts.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 275.  “To this point have tended all the rules I have given.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 120.  “To these points have tended all the rules which have been given.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 356.  “Language, as written, or oral, is addressed to the eye, or to the ear.”—­Lit.  Conv., p. 181.  “He will learn, Sir, that to accuse and prove are very different.”—­Walpole.  “They crowded around the door so as to prevent others going out.”—­Abbott’s Teacher, p. 17.  “One person or thing is singular number; more than one person or thing is plural number.”—­John Flint’s Gram., p. 27.  “According to the sense or relation in which nouns are used, they are in the NOMINATIVE or POSSESSIVE CASE, thus, nom. man; poss. man’s.”—­Blair’s Gram., p. 11.  “Nouns or pronouns in the possessive case are placed before the nouns which govern them, to which they belong.”—­Sanborn’s Gram., p. 130.  “A teacher is explaining the difference between a noun and verb.”—­Abbott’s Teacher, p. 72.  “And therefore the two ends, or extremities, must directly answer to the north and south pole.”—­HARRIS:  Joh.  Dict., w.  Gnomon. “Walks or walketh, rides or rideth, stands or standeth, are of the third person singular.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 47.  “I grew immediately roguish and pleasant to a degree, in the same strain.”—­SWIFT:  Tattler, 31.  “An Anapaest has the first syllables unaccented, and the last accented.”—­ Blair’s Gram., p. 119.  “An Anapaest has the first two syllables unaccented, and the last accented.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 219; Bullions’s Principles, 170.  “An Anapaest has the two first syllables unaccented, and the last accented.”—­L.  Murray’s Gram., p. 254; Jamieson’s Rhet., 305; Smith’s New Gram., 188; Guy’s Gram., 120; Merchant’s, 167; Russell’s, 109; Picket’s, 226.  “But hearing and vision differ not more than words spoken and written.”—­Wilson’s Essay on Gram., p. 21.  “They are considered by some prepositions.”—­Cooper’s
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