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.
An, Ben Harrow, Ben Ledi, Ben Lomond, Ben Voirlich, Ben Venue, or, (as some spell it,) Ben Ivenew.”—­Id.[520] “Fenelon died in 1715, deeply lamented by all the inhabitants of the Low Countries.”—­Murray cor. “And Pharaoh Necho[521] made Eliakim, the son of Josiah, king.”—­See ALGER:  2 Kings, xiii, 34.  “Those who seem so merry and well pleased, call her Good Fortune; but the others, who weep and wring their hands, Bad Fortune.”—­Collier cor.

UNDER RULE VIII.—­OF COMPOUNDS.

“When Joab returned, and smote Edom in the Valley of Salt”—­FRIENDS’ BIBLE:  Ps. lx, title.  “Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars Hill, and said,” &c.—­Scott cor. “And at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the Mount of Olives.”—­Bible cor. “Abgillus, son of the king of the Frisii, surnamed Prester John, was in the Holy Land with Charlemagne.”—­U.  Biog.  Dict. cor. “Cape Palmas, in Africa, divides the Grain Coast from the Ivory Coast.”—­Dict. of Geog. cor. “The North Esk, flowing from Loch Lee, falls into the sea three miles north of Montrose.”—­Id. “At Queen’s Ferry, the channel of the Forth is contracted by promontories on both coasts.”—­Id. “The Chestnut Ridge is about twenty-five miles west of the Alleghanies, and Laurel Ridge, ten miles further west.”—­Balbi cor. “Washington City, the metropolis of the United States of America.”—­Williams, U. Caz., p. 380.  “Washington City, in the District of Columbia, population (in 1830) 18,826.”—­Williams cor. “The loftiest peak of the White Mountains, in New Hampshire, is called Mount Washington.”—­G.  Brown.  “Mount’s Bay, in the west of England, lies between the Land’s End and Lizard Point.”—­Id. “Salamis, an island of the Egean Sea, off the southern coast of the ancient Attica.”—­Dict. of Geog.  “Rhodes, an island of the Egean Sea, the largest and most easterly of the Cyclades.”—­Id. cor. “But he overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea.”—­SCOTT:  Ps. cxxxvi, 15.  “But they provoked him at the sea, even at the Red Sea.”—­ALGER, FRIENDS:  Ps. cvi, 7.

UNDER RULE IX.—­OF APPOSITION.

“At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus.”—­SCOTT, FRIENDS, ET AL.:  Matt., xiv, 1.  “Who has been more detested than Judas the traitor?”—­G.  Brown.  “St. Luke the evangelist was a physician of Antioch, and one of the converts of St. Paul.”—­Id. “Luther, the reformer, began his bold career by preaching against papal indulgences.”—­Id. “The poet Lydgate was a disciple and admirer

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