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.
England, and so Scott lost his wager.”—­Byron cor. “In fact, there exist such resemblances.”—­Kames cor. “To him give all the prophets witness.”—­Acts, x, 43.  “That there were so many witnesses and actors.”—­Addison cor. “How do this man’s definitions stand affected?”—­Collier cor. “Whence come all the powers and prerogatives of rational beings?”—­Id. “Nor do the scriptures cited by thee prove thy intent.”—­Barclay cor. “Nor does the scripture cited by thee prove the contrary.”—­Id. “Why then citest thou a scripture which is so plain and clear for it?”—­Id. “But what say the Scriptures as to respect of persons among Christians?”—­Id. “But in the mind of man, while in the savage state, there seem to be hardly any ideas but what enter by the senses;”—­Robertson cor. “What sounds has each of the vowels?”—­Griscom cor. “Out of this have grown up aristocracies, monarchies, despotisms, tyrannies.”—­Brownson cor. “And there were taken up, of fragments that remained to them, twelve baskets.”—­Bible cor. “There seem to be but two general classes.”—­Day cor. “Hence arise the six forms of expressing time.”—­Id. “There seem to be no other words required.”—­Chandler cor. “If there are two, the second increment is the syllable next to the last.”—­Bullions cor. “Hence arise the following advantages.”—­Id. “There are no data by which it can be estimated.”—­Calhoun cor. “To this class, belongs the Chinese language, in which we have nothing but naked primitives.”—­Fowler cor. [[Fist] “Nothing but naked roots” is faulty; because no word is a root, except some derivative spring from it.”—­G.  B.] “There were several other grotesque figures that presented themselves.”—­Spect. cor. “In these consists that sovereign good which ancient sages so much extol.”—­Percival cor. “Here come those I have done good to against my will.”—­Shak. cor. “Where there are more than one auxiliary.”  Or:  “Where there are more auxiliaries than one.”—­O.  B. Peirce cor.

   “On me to cast those eyes where shines nobility.”
        —­Sidney cor.

    “Here are half-pence in plenty, for one you’ll have twenty.”
        —­Swift cor.

    “Ah, Jockey, ill advisest thou.  I wis,
    To think of songs at such a time as this.”
        —­Churchill cor.

UNDER NOTE I.—­THE RELATIVE AND VERB.

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