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.
place, but also be accompanied with a proper tone of voice.”—­L.  Murray cor.To oppose the opinions and rectify the mistakes of others, is what truth and sincerity sometimes require of us.”—­Locke cor. “It is very probable, that this assembly was called, to clear some doubt which the king had, whether it were lawful for the Hollanders to throw off the monarchy of Spain, and withdraw entirely their allegiance to that crown.”  Or:—­“About the lawfulness of the Hollanders’ rejection of the monarchy of Spain, and entire withdrawment of their allegiance to that crown.”—­L.  Murray cor.A naming of the numbers and cases of a noun in their order, is called the declining of it, or its declension.”—­Frost cor. “The embodying of them is, therefore, only a collecting of such component parts of words.”—­Town cor. “The one is the voice heard when Christ was baptized; the other, when he was transfigured.”—­Barclay cor.An understanding of the literal sense”—­or, “To have understood the literal sense, would not have prevented them from condemning the guiltless.”—­Bp.  Butler cor. “As if this were, to take the execution of justice out of the hands of God, and to give it to nature.”—­Id. “They will say, you must conceal this good opinion of yourself; which yet is an allowing of the thing, though not of the showing of it.”  Or:—­“which yet is, to allow the thing, though not the showing of it.”—­Sheffield cor. “So as to signify not only the doing of an action, but the causing of it to be done.”—­Pike cor. “This, certainly, was both a dividing of the unity of God, and a limiting of his immensity.”—­Calvin cor. “Tones being infinite in number, and varying in almost every individual, the arranging of them under distinct heads, and the reducing of them to any fixed and permanent rules, may be considered as the last refinement in language.”—­Knight cor. “The fierce anger of the Lord shall not return, until he hath done it, and until he hath performed the intents of his heart.”—­Bible cor. “We seek for deeds more illustrious and heroic, for events more diversified and surprising.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “We distinguish the genders, or the male and the female sex, in four different ways.”—­Buchanan cor. “Thus, ch and g are ever hard.  It is therefore proper to retain these sounds in those Hebrew names which have not been modernized, or changed by public use.”—­Dr. Wilson cor.A Substantive, or Noun, is the name of any thing which is conceived to subsist, or of which we have any notion.”—­Murray and Lowth cor.A Noun is the name
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