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.
Barclay cor. “By the gentle dropping-in of a pebble.”—­Sheridan cor. “To the carrying-on of a great part of that general course of nature.”—­Bp.  Butler cor. “Then the not-interposing is so far from being a ground of complaint.”—­Id. “The bare omission, (or rather, the not-employing,) of what is used.”—­Campbell and Jamieson cor. “The bringing-together of incongruous adverbs is a very common fault.”—­ Churchill cor. “This is a presumptive proof that it does not proceed from them.”—­Bp.  Butler cor. “It represents him in a character to which any injustice is peculiarly unsuitable.”—­Campbell cor. “They will aim at something higher than a mere dealing-out of harmonious sounds.”—­ Kirkham cor. “This is intelligible and sufficient; and any further account of the matter seems beyond the reach of our faculties.”—­Bp.  Butler cor. “Apostrophe is a turning-off from the regular course of the subject.”—­Mur. et al. cor. “Even Isabella was finally prevailed upon to assent to the sending-out of a commission to investigate his conduct.”—­Life of Columbus cor. “For the turning-away of the simple shall slay them.”—­Bible cor.

   “Thick fingers always should command
    Without extension of the hand.”—­King cor.

UNDER NOTE V.—­OF PARTICIPLES WITH ADJECTIVES.

“Is there any Scripture which speaks of the light as being inward?”—­Barclay cor. “For I believe not positiveness therein essential to salvation.”—­Id. “Our inability to act a uniformly right part without some thought and care.”—­Bp.  Butler cor.On the supposition that it is reconcilable with the constitution of nature.”—­Id.On the ground that it is not discoverable by reason or experience.”—­Id.On the ground that they are unlike the known course of nature.”—­Id. “Our power to discern reasons for them, gives a positive credibility to the history of them.”—­Id. “From its lack of universality.”—­Id. “That they may be turned into passive participles in dus, is no decisive argument to prove them passive.”—­Grant cor. “With the implied idea that St. Paul was then absent from the Corinthians.”—­Kirkham cor.Because it becomes gradually weaker, until it finally dies away into silence.”—­Id. “Not without the author’s full knowledge.”—­Id.Wit out of season is one sort of folly.”—­Sheffield cor. “Its general susceptibility of a much stronger evidence.”—­ Campbell cor. “At least, that they are such, rarely enhances our opinion, either of their abilities or of their virtues.”—­Id. “Which were the ground of our unity.”—­Barclay cor. “But they may be distinguished from it by their intransitiveness.”—­L.  Murray cor. “To distinguish the higher degree of our persuasion of a thing’s possibility.”—­Churchill cor.

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