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.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XV AND ITS NOTE.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—­THE IDEA OF PLURALITY.

“The gentry are punctilious in their etiquette.”—­G.  B.  “In France, the peasantry go barefoot, and the middle sort make use of wooden shoes.”—­Harvey cor. “The people rejoice in that which should cause sorrow.”—­Murray varied.  “My people are foolish, they have not known me.”—­Bible and Lowth cor. “For the people speak, but do not write.”—­Phil.  Mu. cor. “So that all the people that were in the camp, trembled.”—­Bible cor. “No company like to confess that they are ignorant.”—­Todd cor. “Far the greater part of their captives were anciently sacrificed.”—­Robertson cor.More than one half of them were cut off before the return of spring.”—­Id. “The other class, termed Figures of Thought, suppose the words to be used in their proper and literal meaning.”—­Blair and Mur. cor. “A multitude of words in their dialect approach to the Teutonic form, and therefore afford excellent assistance.”—­Dr. Murray cor. “A great majority of our authors are defective in manner.”—­J.  Brown cor. “The greater part of these new-coined words have been rejected.”—­Tooke cor. “The greater part of the words it contains, are subject to certain modifications or inflections.”—­The Friend cor. “While all our youth prefer her to the rest.”—­Waller cor. “Mankind are appointed to live in a future state.”—­Bp.  Butler cor. “The greater part of human kind speak and act wholly by imitation.”—­Rambler, No. 146.  “The greatest part of human gratifications approach so nearly to vice.”—­Id., No. 160.

   “While still the busy world are treading o’er
    The paths they trod five thousand years before.”—­Young cor.

UNDER THE NOTE.—­THE IDEA OF UNITY.

“In old English, this species of words was numerous.”—­Dr. Murray cor. “And a series of exercises in false grammar is introduced towards the end.”—­Frost cor. “And a jury, in conformity with the same idea, was anciently called homagium, the homage, or manhood.”—­Webster cor. “With respect to the former, there is indeed a plenty of means.”—­Kames cor. “The number of school districts has increased since the last year.”—­Throop cor. “The Yearly Meeting has purchased with its funds these publications.”—­Foster cor.Has the legislature power to prohibit assemblies?”—­Sullivan cor. “So that the whole number of the streets was fifty.”—­Rollin cor. “The number of inhabitants was not more

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