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 having two sons by his present wife.”—­Id.The subjugation of the Britons by the Saxons, was a necessary consequence of their calling of these Saxons to their assistance.”—­Id. “What he had there said concerning the Saxons, that they expelled the Britons, and changed the customs, the religion, and the language of the country, is a clear and a good reason why our present language is Saxon, rather than British.”—­Id. “The only material difference between them, except that the one is short and the other more prolonged, is, that a metaphor is always explained by the words that are connected with it.”—­Id. et Mur. cor. “The description of Death, advancing to meet Satan on his arrival.”—­Rush cor. “Is not the bare fact, that God is the witness of it, sufficient ground for its credibility to rest upon?”—­Chalmers cor. “As in the case of one who is entering upon a new study.”—­Beattie cor. “The manner in which these affect the copula, is called the imperative mood.”—­Wilkins cor. “We are freed from the trouble, because our nouns have scarcely any diversity of endings.”—­Buchanan cor. “The verb is rather indicative of the action as being doing, or done, than of the time of the event; but indeed the ideas are undistinguishable.”—­Booth cor. “Nobody would doubt that this is a sufficient proof.”—­Campbell cor. “Against the doctrine here maintained, that conscience as well as reason, is a natural faculty.”—­Beattie cor. “It is one cause why the Greek and English languages are much more easy to learn, than the Latin.”—­Bucke cor. “I have not been able to make out a solitary instance in which such has been the fact.”—­Lib. cor. “An angel, forming the appearance of a hand, and writing the king’s condemnation on the wall, checked their mirth, and filled them with terror.”—­Wood cor. “The prisoners, in attempting to escape, aroused the keepers.”—­O.  B. Peirce cor. “I doubt not, in the least, that this has been one cause of the multiplication of divinities in the heathen world.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “From the general rule he lays down, that the verb is the parent word of all language.”—­Tooke cor. “He was accused of being idle.”  Or:  “He was accused of idleness.”—­Felch cor. “Our meeting is generally dissatisfied with him for so removing.”  Or:  “with the circumstances of his removal.”—­Edmondson cor. “The spectacle is too rare, of men deserving solid fame while not seeking it.”—­Bush cor. “What further need was there that an other priest should rise?”—­Heb., vii, 11.

UNDER NOTE XI.—­REFERENCE OF PARTICIPLES.

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