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.
circumstance which was lamented.”—­Id. “The crowd hailed William, agreeably to the expectations of his friends.”—­Id. “The tribunes resisted Scipio, who knew their malevolence towards him.”—­Id. “The censors reproved vice, and were held in great honour.”—­Id. “The generals neglected discipline, which fact has been proved.”—­Id. “There would be two nominatives to the verb was, and such a construction is improper.”—­Adam and Gould cor. “His friend bore the abuse very patiently; whose forbearance, however, served only to increase his rudeness; it produced, at length, contempt and insolence.”—­Murray and Emmons cor. “Almost all compound sentences are more or less elliptical; and some examples of ellipsis may be found, under nearly all the different parts of speech.”—­Murray, Guy, Smith, Ingersoll, Fisk, et al. cor.

UNDER NOTE XV.—­REPEAT THE PRONOUN.

“In things of Nature’s workmanship, whether we regard their internal or their external structure, beauty and design are equally conspicuous.”—­Kames cor. “It puzzles the reader, by making him doubt whether the word ought to be taken in its proper, or in its figurative sense.”—­Id. “Neither my obligations to the muses, nor my expectations from them, are so great.”—­Cowley cor. “The Fifth Annual Report of the Antislavery Society of Ferrisburgh and its vicinity.”—­Title cor. “Meaning taste in its figurative as well as its proper sense.”—­Kames cor. “Every measure in which either your personal or your political character is concerned.”—­Junius cor. “A jealous and righteous God has often punished such in themselves or in their offspring.”—­Extracts cor. “Hence their civil and their religious history are inseparable.”—­Milman cor. “Esau thus carelessly threw away both his civil and his religious inheritance.”—­Id. “This intelligence excited not only our hopes, but our fears likewise.”—­Jaudon cor. “In what way our defect of principle, and our ruling manners, have completed the ruin of the national spirit of union.”—­Dr. Brown cor. “Considering her descent, her connexion, and her present intercourse.”—­Webster cor. “His own and his wife’s wardrobe are packed up in a firkin.”—­Parker and Fox cor.

UNDER NOTE XVI.—­CHANGE THE ANTECEDENT.

“The sounds of e and o long, in their due degrees, will be preserved, and clearly distinguished.”—­L.  Murray cor. “If any persons should be inclined to think,” &c., “the author takes the liberty to suggest to them,” &c.—­Id. “And he walked in all the way of Asa his father; he turned not aside

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