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.

“Viewing them separately, we experience different emotions.”  Or:  “Viewed separately, they produce different emotions.”—­Kames cor. “But, this being left doubtful, an other objection occurs.”—­Id.As he proceeded from one particular to an other, the subject grew under his hand.”—­Id. “But this is still an interruption, and a link of the chain is broken.”—­Id. “After some days’ hunting,—­(or, After some days spent in hunting,)—­Cyrus communicated his design to his officers.”—­Rollin cor. “But it is made, without the appearance of being made in form.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “These would have had a better effect, had they been disjoined, thus.”—­Blair and Murray cor.In an improper diphthong, but one of the vowels is sounded.”—­Murray, Alger, et al. cor. “And I being led to think of both together, my view is rendered unsteady.”—­Blair, Mur., and Jam. cor. “By often doing the same thing, we make the action habitual.”  Or:  “What is often done, becomes habitual.”—­L.  Murray cor. “They remain with us in our dark and solitary hours, no less than when we are surrounded with friends and cheerful society.”—­Id. “Besides showing what is right, one may further explain the matter by pointing out what is wrong.”—­Lowth cor. “The former teaches the true pronunciation of words, and comprises accent, quantity, emphasis, pauses, and tones.”—­L.  Murray cor.A person may reprove others for their negligence, by saying, ’You have taken great care indeed.’”—­Id. “The word preceding and the word following it, are in apposition to each other.”—­Id.He having finished his speech, the assembly dispersed.”—­Cooper cor. “Were the voice to fall at the close of the last line, as many a reader is in the habit of allowing it to do.”—­Kirkham cor. “The misfortunes of his countrymen were but negatively the effects of his wrath, which only deprived them of his assistance.”—­Kames cor. “Taking them as nouns, we may explain this construction thus.”—­Grant cor. “These have an active signification, except those which come from neuter verbs.”—­Id. “From its evidence not being universal.”  Or:  “From the fact that its evidence is not universal.”—­Bp.  Butler cor. “And this faith will continually grow, as we acquaint ourselves with our own nature.”—­Channing cor. “Monosyllables ending with any consonant but f, l, or s, never double the final consonant, when it is preceded by a single vowel; except add, ebb,” &c.—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 23.  Or:  “Words ending with any consonant except f, l, or s, do not double the final letter.  Exceptions.  Add, ebb, &c.”—­Bullions’s

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