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.

“Common sense, as well as piety, tells us these are proper.”—­Fam.  Com. cor. “For without it the critic, as well as the undertaker, ignorant of any rule, has nothing left but to abandon himself to chance.”—­Kames cor. “And accordingly hatred, as well as love, is extinguished by long absence’.”—­Id. “But at every turn the richest melody, as well as the sublimest sentiments, is conspicuous.”—­Id. “But it, as well as the lines immediately subsequent, defies all translation.”—­Coleridge cor. “But their religion, as well as their customs and manners, was strangely misrepresented.”—­Bolingbroke, on History, Paris Edition of 1808, p. 93.  “But his jealous policy, as well as the fatal antipathy of Fonseca, was conspicuous.”—­Robertson cor. “When their extent, as well as their value, was unknown.”—­Id. “The etymology, as well as the syntax, of the more difficult parts of speech, is reserved for his attention at a later period.”—­Parker and Fox cor. “What I myself owe to him, no one but myself knows.”—­Wright cor. “None, but thou, O mighty prince! can avert the blow.”—­Inst., Key, p. 272.  “Nothing, but frivolous amusements, pleases the indolent.”—­Ib.

   “Nought, save the gurglings of the rill, was heard.”—­G.  B.

    “All songsters, save the hooting owl, were mute.”—­G.  B.

UNDER NOTE IV.—­EACH, EVERY, OR NO.

“Give every word, and every member, its due weight and force.”—­Murray’s Gram., Vol. i, p. 316.  “And to one of these belongs every noun, and every third person of every verb.”—­Dr. Wilson cor. “No law, no restraint, no regulation, is required to keep him within bounds.”—­Lit.  Journal cor. “By that time, every window and every door in the street was full of heads.”—­Observer cor. “Every system of religion, and every school of philosophy, stands back from this field, and leaves Jesus Christ alone, the solitary example.”  Or:  “All systems of religion, and all schools of philosophy, stand back from this field, and leave Jesus Christ alone, the solitary example.”—­Abbott cor. “Each day, and each hour, brings its portion of duty.”—­Inst., Key, p. 272.  “And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, resorted unto him.”—­Bible cor. “Every private Christian, every member of the church, ought to read and peruse the Scriptures, that he may know his faith and belief to be founded upon them.”—­Barclay cor. “And every mountain and every island was moved out of its place.”—­Bible cor.

   “No bandit fierce, no tyrant mad with pride,
    No cavern’d hermit rests self-satisfied.”—­Pope.

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