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.

“Of all simpletons, he was the greatest”—­Nutting cor. “Of all beings, man has certainly the greatest reason for gratitude.”—­Id. “This lady is prettier than any of her sisters.”—­Peyton cor. “The relation which, of all the class, is by far the most fruitful of tropes, I have not yet mentioned.”—­Blair cor. “He studied Greek the most of all noblemen.”—­W.  Walker cor. “And indeed that was the qualification which was most wanted at that time.”—­Goldsmith cor. “Yet we deny that the knowledge of him as outwardly crucified, is the best of all knowledge of him.”—­Barclay cor. “Our ideas of numbers are, of all our conceptions, the most accurate and distinct”—­Duncan cor. “This indeed is, of all cases, the one in which it is least necessary to name the agent”—­J.  Q. Adams cor. “The period to which you have arrived, is perhaps the most critical and important moment of your lives.”—­Id. “Perry’s royal octavo is esteemed the best of all the pronouncing dictionaries yet known.”—­D.  H. Barnes cor. “This is the tenth persecution, and, of all the ten the most bloody.”—­Sammes cor. “The English tongue is the most susceptible of sublime imagery, of all the languages in the world.”—­Bucke cor. “Of all writers whatever, Homer is universally allowed to have had the greatest Invention.”—­Pope cor. “In a version of this particular work, which, more than any other, seems to require a venerable, antique cast.”—­Id. “Because I think him the best-informed naturalist that has ever written.”—­Jefferson cor. “Man is capable of being the most social of all animals.”—­Sheridan cor. “It is, of all signs (or expressions) that which most moves us.”—­Id. “Which, of all articles, is the most necessary.”—­Id.

   “Quoth he, ’This gambol thou advisest,
    Is, of all projects, the unwisest.’”—­S.  Butler cor.

UNDER NOTE VI.—­OF INCLUSIVE TERMS.

“Noah and his family were the only antediluvians who survived the flood.”—­Webster cor. “I think it superior to any other grammar that we have yet had.”—­Blair cor. “We have had no other grammarian who has employed so much labour and judgement upon our native language, as has the author of these volumes.”—­British Critic cor.Those persons feel most for the distresses of others, who have experienced distresses themselves.”—­L.  Murray cor. “Never was any other people so much infatuated as the Jewish nation.”—­Id. et al. cor. “No other tongue is so full of connective particles as the Greek.”—­Blair cor. “Never was sovereign so much beloved by the people.”  Or:  “Never

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