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 Pharisees demanded of him,” &c.—­Bible cor. “A book has been shown me.”—­Dr. Campbell cor. “To John Horne Tooke admission was refused, only because he had been in holy orders.”—­W.  Duane cor. “Mr. Horne Tooke having taken orders, admission to the bar was refused him.”—­Churchill cor. “Its reference to place is disregarded.”—­Dr. Bullions cor. “What striking lesson is taught by the tenor of this history?”—­Bush cor. “No less a sum than eighty thousand pounds had been left him by a friend.”—­Dr. Priestley cor. “Where there are many things to be done, there must be allowed to each its share of time and labour.”—­Dr. Johnson cor. “Presenting the subject in a far more practical form, than has heretofore been given it.”—­Kirkham cor. “If to a being of entire impartiality should be shown the two companies.”—­Dr. Scott cor. “The command of the British army was offered to him.”—­Grimshaw cor.To whom a considerable sum had been unexpectedly left.”—­Johnson cor. “Whether such a privilege may be granted to a maid or a widow.”—­Spect. cor. “Happily, to all these affected terms, the public suffrage has been denied.”—­Campbell cor. “Let the parsing table next be shown him.”—­Nutting cor.Then the use of the analyzing table may be explained to him.”—­Id.To Pittacus there was offered a great sum of money.”—­Sanborn cor. “More time for study had been allowed him.”—­Id. “If a little care were bestowed on the walks that lie between them.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 222.  “Suppose an office or a bribe be offered me.”—­Pierpont cor.

   “Is then one chaste, one last embrace denied
    Shall I not lay me by his clay-cold side?”—­Rowe cor.

UNDER NOTE V.—­OF PASSIVE VERBS TRANSITIVE.

“The preposition TO is used before nouns of place, when they follow verbs or participles of motion.”—­Murray et al. cor. “They were not allowed to enter the house.”—­Mur. cor. “Their separate signification has been overlooked.”—­Tooke cor. “But, whenever YE is used, it must be in the nominative case, and not in the objective.”—­Cobbett cor. “It is said, that more persons than one receive handsome salaries, to see that acts of parliament are properly worded.”—­Churchill cor. “The following Rudiments of English Grammar have been used in the University of Pennsylvania.”—­Dr. Rogers cor. “It never should be forgotten.”—­ Newman cor. “A very curious fact has been noticed by those expert metaphysicians.”—­Campbell cor. “The archbishop interfered that Michelet’s

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