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.
cor. “The worst effect of it is, that it fixes on your mind a habit of indecision.”—­Todd cor. “And you groan the more deeply, as you reflect that you have not power to shake it off.”—­Id. “I know of nothing that can justify the student in having recourse to a Latin translation of a Greek writer.”—­Coleridge cor. “Humour is the conceit of making others act or talk absurdly.”—­Hazlitt cor. “There are remarkable instances in which they do not affect each other.”—­Bp.  Butler cor.That Caesar was left out of the commission, was not from any slight.”—­Life cor. “Of the thankful reception of this toleration, I shall say no more,” Or:  “Of the propriety of receiving this toleration thankfully, I shall say no more.”—­Dryden cor. “Henrietta was delighted with Julia’s skill in working lace.”—­O.  B. Peirce cor. “And it is because each of them represents two different words, that the confusion has arisen.”—­Booth cor. “AEschylus died of a fracture of his skull, caused by an eagle’s dropping of a tortoise on his head.”  Or:—­“caused by a tortoise which an eagle let fall on his head.”—­Biog.  Dict. cor. “He doubted whether they had it.”—­Felch cor.To make ourselves clearly understood, is the chief end of speech.”—­Sheridan cor.One cannot discover in their countenances any signs which are the natural concomitants of the feelings of the heart.”—­Id. “Nothing can be more common or less proper, than to speak of a river as emptying itself.”—­Campbell cor. “Our non-use of the former expression, is owing to this.”—­Bullions cor.

UNDER NOTE IV.—­DISPOSAL OF ADVERBS.

“To this generally succeeds the division, or the laying-down of the method of the discourse.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “To the pulling-down of strong holds.”—­Bible cor. “Can a mere buckling-on of a military weapon infuse courage?”—­Dr. Brown cor.Expensive and luxurious living destroys health.”—­L.  Murray cor. “By frugal and temperate living, health is preserved.”  Or:  “By living frugally and temperately, we preserve our health.”—­Id. “By the doing-away of the necessity.”—­The Friend cor. “He recommended to them, however, the immediate calling of—­(or, immediately to call—­) the whole community to the church.”—­Gregory cor. “The separation of large numbers in this manner, certainly facilitates the right reading of them.”—­Churchill cor. “From their mere admitting of a twofold grammatical construction.”—­Phil.  Mu. cor. “His grave lecturing of his friend about it.”—­Id. “For the blotting-out of sin.”—­Gurney cor. “From the not-using of water.”—­

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