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.
cor. “Some define them to be verbs devoid of the first two persons.”—­Crombie cor. “In an other such Essay-tract as this.”—­White cor. “But we fear that not an other such man is to be found.”—­Edward Irving cor.O for an other such sleep, that I might see an other such man!” Or, to preserve poetic measure, say:—­

   “O for such sleep again, that I might see
    An other such man, though but in a dream!”—­Shak. cor.

UNDER NOTE X.—­ADJECTIVES FOR ADVERBS.

The is an article, relating to the noun balm, agreeably to Rule 11th.”—­Comly cor.Wise is an adjective, relating to the noun man’s, agreeably to Rule 11th.”—­Id. “To whom I observed, that the beer was extremely good.”—­Goldsmith cor. “He writes very elegantly.”  Or:  “He writes with remarkable elegance.”—­O.  B. Peirce cor. “John behaves very civilly (or, with true civility) to all men.”—­Id. “All the sorts of words hitherto considered, have each of them some meaning, even when taken separately.”—­Beattie cor. “He behaved himself conformably to that blessed example.”—­Sprat cor.Marvellously graceful.”—­ Clarendon cor. “The Queen having changed her ministry, suitably to her wisdom.”—­Swift cor. “The assertions of this author are more easily detected.”—­Id. “The characteristic of his sect allowed him to affirm no more strongly than that.”—­Bentley cor. “If one author had spoken more nobly and loftily than an other.”—­Id. “Xenophon says expressly.”—­ Id. “I can never think so very meanly of him.”—­Id. “To convince all that are ungodly among them, of all their ungodly deeds, which they have impiously committed.”—­Bible cor. “I think it very ably written.”  Or:  “I think it written in a very masterly manner.”—­Swift cor. “The whole design must refer to the golden age, which it represents in a lively manner.”—­Addison cor.Agreeably to this, we read of names being blotted out of God’s book.”—­Burder et al. cor.Agreeably to the law of nature, children are bound to support their indigent parents.”—­Paley.  “Words taken independently of their meaning, are parsed as nouns of the neuter gender.”—­Maltby cor.

   “Conceit in weakest bodies strongliest works.”—­Shak. cor.

UNDER NOTE XI.—­THEM FOR THOSE.

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