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.
Christ, with the sign of the cross, puts away devils.”—­Barclay cor. “By which an oath with a penalty was to be imposed on the members.”—­Junius cor. “Light, or knowledge, in what manner soever afforded us, is equally from God.”—­Bp.  Butler cor. “For instance, sickness or untimely death is the consequence of intemperance.”—­Id. “When grief or blood ill-tempered vexeth him.”  Or:  “When grief, with blood ill-tempered, vexes him”—­Shak. cor. “Does continuity, or connexion, create sympathy and relation in the parts of the body?”—­Collier cor. “His greatest concern, his highest enjoyment, was, to be approved in the sight of his Creator.”—­L.  Murray cor. “Know ye not that there is[542] a prince, a great man, fallen this day in Israel?”—­Bible cor. “What is vice, or wickedness?  No rarity, you may depend on it.”—­Collier cor. “There is also the fear or apprehension of it.”—­Bp.  Butler cor. “The apostrophe with s (’s) is an abbreviation for is, the termination of the old English genitive.”—­Bullions cor.Ti, ce, OR ci, when followed by a vowel, usually has the sound of sh; as in partial, ocean, special.”—­Weld cor.

   “Bitter constraint of sad occasion dear
    Compels me to disturb your season due.”—­Milton cor.

    “Debauch’ry, or excess, though with less noise,
    As great a portion of mankind destroys.”—­Waller cor.

UNDER NOTE II.—­AFFIRMATION WITH NEGATION.

“Wisdom, and not wealth, procures esteem.”—­Inst., Key, p. 272.  “Prudence, and not pomp, is the basis of his fame.”—­Ib. “Not fear, but labour has overcome him.”—­Ib. “The decency, and not the abstinence, makes the difference.”—­Ib. “Not her beauty, but her talents attract attention.”—­Ib. “It is her talents, and not her beauty, that attract attention.”—­Ib. “It is her beauty, and not her talents, that attracts attention.”—­Ib.

   “His belly, not his brains, this impulse gives
    He’ll grow immortal; for he cannot live.”  Or thus:—­
    “His bowels, not his brains, this impulse give: 
    He’ll grow immortal; for he cannot live.”—­Young cor.

UNDER NOTE III.—­AS WELL AS, BUT, OR SAVE.

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