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.

“Its application is not arbitrary, or dependent on the caprice of readers.”—­L.  Murray cor. “This is the more expedient, because the work is designed for the benefit of private learners.”—­Id. “A man, he tells us, ordered by his will, to have a statue erected for him.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “From some likeness too remote, and lying too far out of the road of ordinary thought.”—­Id. “In the commercial world, money is a fluid, running from hand to hand.”—­Dr. Webster cor. “He pays much attention to the learning and singing of songs.”—­Id. “I would not be understood to consider the singing of songs as criminal.”—­Id. “It is a case decided by Cicero, the great master of writing.”—­Editor of Waller cor. “Did they ever bear a testimony against the writing of books?”—­ Bates’s Rep. cor. “Exclamations are sometimes mistaken for interrogations.”—­Hist. of Print, cor. “Which cannot fail to prove of service.”—­Smith cor. “Hewn into such figures as would make them incorporate easily and firmly.”—­Beat, or Mur. cor.After the rule and example, there are practical inductive questions.”—­J.  Flint cor. “I think it will be an advantage, that I have collected my examples from modern writings.”—­Priestley cor. “He was eager to recommend it to his fellow-citizens.”—­Id. and Hume cor. “The good lady was careful to serve me with every thing.”—­Id. “No revelation would have been given, had the light of nature been sufficient, in such a sense as to render one superfluous and useless.”—­Bp.  Butler cor. “Description, again, is a representation which raises in the mind the conception of an object, by means of some arbitrary or instituted symbols.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “Disappointing the expectation of the hearers, when they look for an end.”  Or:—­“for the termination of our discourse.”—­Id. “There is a distinction, which, in the use of them, is worthy of attention.”—­ Maunder cor. “A model has been contrived, which is not very expensive, and which is easily managed.”—­Ed. Reporter cor. “The conspiracy was the more easily discovered, because the conspirators were many.”—­L.  Murray cor. “Nearly ten years had that celebrated work been published, before its importance was at all understood.”—­Id.That the sceptre is ostensibly grasped by a female hand, does not reverse the general order of government.”—­West cor. “I have hesitated about signing the Declaration of Sentiments.”—­Lib. cor. “The prolonging of men’s lives when the world needed to be peopled, and the subsequent shortening of them when that necessity had ceased.”—­Rev. John Brown cor. “Before the performance

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