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.
the Louises, or the Charleses,—­the scourges and butchers of their fellow-creatures.”—­Burgh cor.”  Which was the notion of the Platonic philosophers and the Jewish rabbies.”—­Id. “That they should relate to the whole body of virtuosoes.”—­Cobbeti cor.” What thanks have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.”—­Bible cor.” There are five ranks of nobility; dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts, and barons.”—­Balbi cor.” Acts which were so well known to the two Charleses.”—­Payne cor.Courts-martial are held in all parts, for the trial of the blacks.”—­Observer cor. “It becomes a common noun, and may have the plural number; as, the two Davids, the two Scipios, the two Pompeys.”—­Staniford cor. “The food of the rattlesnake is birds, squirrels, hares, rats, and reptiles.”—­Balbi cor. “And let fowls multiply in the earth.”—­Bible cor. “Then we reached the hillside, where eight buffaloes were grazing.”—­Martineau cor. “CORSET, n. a bodice for a woman.”—­Worcester cor. “As, the Bees, the Cees, the Double-ues.”—­Peirce cor. “Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.”—­Pope cor. “You have disguised yourselves like tipstaffs.”—­Gil Bias cor. “But who, that has any taste, can endure the incessant quick returns of the alsoes, and the likewises, and the moreovers, and the howevers, and the notwithstandings?”—­Campbell cor.

   “Sometimes, in mutual sly disguise,
    Let ays seem noes, and noes seem ays.”—­Gay cor.

LESSON II.—­CASES.

“For whose name’s sake, I have been made willing.”—­Penn cor. “Be governed by your conscience, and never ask any body’s leave to be honest.”—­Collier cor. “To overlook nobody’s merit or misbehaviour.”—­ Id. “And Hector at last fights his way to the stern of Ajax’s ship.”—­Coleridge cor. “Nothing is lazier, than to keep one’s eye upon words without heeding their meaning.”—­Museum cor. “Sir William Jones’s division of the day.”—­Id. “I need only refer here to Voss’s excellent account of it.”—­Id. “The beginning of Stesichorus’s palinode has been preserved.”—­Id. “Though we have Tibullus’s elegies, there is not a word in them about Glyc~era.”—­Id. “That Horace was at Thaliarchus’s country-house.”—­Id. “That Sisyphus’s foot-tub should have been still in existence.”—­Id. “How everything went on in Horace’s closet, and Mecenas’s antechamber.”—­Id. “Who, for elegant brevity’s sake, put a participle for a verb.”—­W.  Walker cor.

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