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.
“The difference between an honest and a hypocritical confession.”—­Id. “There is no point of attainment at which we must stop.”—­Id. “Now six hours’ service is as much as is expected of teachers.”—­Id. “How many are seven times nine?”—­Id. “Then the reckoning proceeds till it comes to ten hundred.”—­Frost cor. “Your success will depend on your own exertions; see, then, that you be diligent.”—­Id. “Subjunctive Mood, Present Tense:  If I be known, If thou be known, If he be known;” &c.—­Id. “If I be loved, If thou be loved, If he be loved;” &c.—­Frost right. “An Interjection is a word used to express sudden emotion. Interjections are so called because they are generally thrown in between the parts of discourse, without any reference to the structure of those parts.”—­Frost cor. “The Cardinal numbers are those which simply tell how many; as, one, two, three.”—­Id. “More than one organ are concerned in the utterance of almost every consonant.”  Or thus:  “More organs than one are concerned in the utterance of almost any consonant.”—­Id. “To extract from them all the terms which we use in our divisions and subdivisions of the art.”—­Holmes cor. “And there were written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.”—­Bible cor. “If I were to be judged as to my behaviour, compared with that of John.”—­Whiston’s Jos. cor. “The preposition to, signifying in order to, was anciently preceded by for; as, ’What went ye out for to see?’”—­L.  Murray’s Gram., p. 184.  “This makes the proper perfect tense, which in English is always expressed by the auxiliary verb have; as, ’I have written.’”—­Dr. Blair cor. “Indeed, in the formation of character, personal exertion is the first, the second, and the third virtue.”—­Sanders cor. “The reducing of them to the condition of the beasts that perish.”—­Dymond cor. “Yet this affords no reason to deny that the nature of the gift is the same, or that both are divine.”  Or:  “Yet this affords no reason to aver that the nature of the gift is not the same, or that both are not divine.”—­Id. “If God has made known his will.”—­Id. “If Christ has prohibited them, nothing else can prove them right.”—­Id. “That the taking of them is wrong, every man who simply consults his own heart, will know.”—­Id.From these evils the world would be spared, if one did not write.”—­Id. “It is in a great degree our own fault.”—­Id. “It is worthy of observation, that lesson-learning is nearly excluded.”—­Id. “Who spares the aggressor’s life, even to the endangering of his own.”—­Id. “Who advocates the taking of the life of an aggressor.”—­Id.
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