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.
as the Jews of old despised him in his outward [advent].”—­Id. “That text of Revelations must not be understood as he understands it.”—­Id. “Till the mode of parsing the noun is so familiar to him that he can parse it readily.”—­R.  C. Smith cor. “Perhaps it is running the same course that Rome had run before.”—­Middleton cor. “It ought even on this ground to be avoided; and it easily may be, by a different construction.”—­Churchill cor. “These two languages are now pronounced in England as no other nation in Europe pronounces them.”—­Creighton cor. “Germany ran the same risk that Italy had run.”—­Bolingbroke, Murray, et al., cor.

UNDER NOTE XI.—­PRETERITS AND PARTICIPLES.

“The beggars themselves will be broken in a trice.”—­Swift cor. “The hoop is hoisted above his nose.”—­Id. “And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord.”—­2 Chron., xvii, 6.  “Who sin so oft have mourned, Yet to temptation run.”—­Burns cor. “Who would not have let them appear.”—­Steele cor. “He would have had you seek for ease at the hands of Mr. Legality.”—­Bunyan cor. “From me his madding mind is turned:  He woos the widow’s daughter, of the glen.”—­Spenser cor. “The man has spoken, and he still speaks.”—­Ash cor. “For you have but mistaken me all this while.”—­Shak. cor. “And will you rend our ancient love asunder?”—­Id. “Mr. Birney has pled (or pleaded) the inexpediency of passing such resolutions.”—­Liberator cor. “Who have worn out their years in such most painful labours.”—­Littleton cor. “And in the conclusion you were chosen probationer.”—­Spectator cor.

   “How she was lost, ta’en captive, made a slave;
    And how against him set that should her save.”—­Bunyan cor.

UNDER NOTE XII.—­OF VERBS CONFOUNDED.

“But Moses preferred to while away his time.”—­Parker cor. “His face shone with the rays of the sun.”—­John Allen cor. “Whom they had set at defiance so lately.”—­Bolingbroke cor. “And when he had sat down, his disciples came unto him.”—­Bible cor. “When he had sat down on the judgement-seat.”  Or:  “While he was sitting on the judgement-seat.”—­ Id. “And, they having kindled a fire in the midst of the hall and sat down together, Peter sat down among them.”—­Id. “So, after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and had sat down again,[or, literally,’sitting down again,’] he said to them, Do ye know what I have done to you?”—­Id. “Even

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