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.

UNDER NOTE VIII.—­OF YE AND YOU IN SCRIPTURE.

“Ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth.”—­SCOTT, FRIENDS, and the COMPREHENSIVE BIBLE:  Jer., xlix, 3.  “Wash you, make you clean.”—­SCOTT, ALGER, FRIENDS, ET AL.:  Isaiah, i, 16.  “Strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.”—­SCOTT, FRIENDS, ET AL.:  Isaiah, xxxii, 11. “Ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.”—­SCOTT, BRUCE, and BLAYNEY:  Job, xix, 3.  “If ye knew the gift of God.”  Or:  “If thou knew the gift of God.”—­See John, iv, 10.  “Depart from me, ye workers of iniquity; I know you not.”—­Penington cor.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE VI; OF SAME CASES.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—­OF PROPER IDENTITY.

“Who would not say, ‘If it be I,’ rather than, ’If it be me?”—­Priestley cor. “Who is there?  It is I.”—­Id. “It is he.”—­Id. “Are these the houses you were speaking of?  Yes; they are the same.”—­Id. “It is not I, that you are in love with.”—­Addison cor. “It cannot be I.”—­Swift cor. “To that which once was thou.”—­Prior cor. “There is but one man that she can have, and that man is myself.”—­Priestley cor. “We enter, as it were, into his body, and become in some measure he.”  Or, better:—­“and become in some measure identified with him.”—­A.  Smith and Priestley cor. “Art thou proud yet?  Ay, that I am not thou.”—­Shak. cor. “He knew not who they were.”—­Milnes cor.Whom do you think me to be?”—­Dr. Lowth’s Gram., p. 17. “Who do men say that I, the Son of man, am?”—­Bible cor. “But who say ye that I am?”—­Id.Who think ye that I am?  I am not he.”—­Id. “No; I am in error; I perceive it is not the person that I supposed it was.”—­Winter in London cor. “And while it is He that I serve, life is not without value.”—­Ware cor. “Without ever dreaming it was he.”—­Charles XII cor. “Or he was not the illiterate personage that he affected to be.”—­Montgom. cor. “Yet was he the man who was to be the greatest apostle of the Gentiles.”—­Barclay cor. “Sweet was the thrilling ecstacy; I know not if ’twas love, or thou.”—­J.  Hogg cor. “Time was, when none would cry, that oaf was I.”—­Dryden cor. “No matter where the vanquished be, or who.”—­Rowe cor. “No; I little thought it had been he.”—­Gratton cor. “That reverence, that godly fear, which is ever due to ’Him who can destroy both body and soul in hell.’”—­Maturin cor. “It is we that they seek to please, or rather to astonish.”—­J.  West cor. “Let the same be her that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac.”—­Bible cor. “Although I knew it to be him.”—­Dickens cor. “Dear gentle youth, is’t none but thou?”—­Dorset cor. “Who do they say it is?”—­Fowler cor.

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