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.
No. 532.  “A rounce is the handle of a printing press.”—­Webster’s’ Dict.; also El.  Spelling-Book, p. 118.  “The phraseology we call thee and thouing is not in so common use with us, as the tutoyant among the French.”—­Walker’s Dict., w.  Thy. “Hunting, and other out door sports, are generally pursued.”—­Balbi’s Geog., p. 227.  “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden.”—­SCOTT, ALGER, FRIENDS:  Matt., xi, 28.  “God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son to save it.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, p. 71.  See SCOTT’S BIBLE:  John, iii, 16.  “Jehovah is a prayer hearing God:  Nineveh repented, and was spared.”—­N.  Y. Observer, Vol. x, p. 90.  “These are well pleasing to God, in all ranks and relations.”—­Barclay’s Works, Vol. i, p. 73.  “Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle.”—­Numb., xvii, 13.  “The words coalesce, when they have a long established association.”—­ Murray’s Gram., p. 169.  “Open to me the gates of righteousness:  I will go in to them.”—­OLD BIBLE:  Ps., cxviii, 19.  “He saw an angel of God coming into him.”—­See Acts, x, 3.  “The consequences of any action are to be considered in a two fold light.”—­Wayland’s Moral Science, p. 108.  “We commonly write two fold, three fold, four fold, and so on up to ten fold, without a hyphen; and, after that, we use one.”—­Author. See Matt., xiii, 8.  “When the first mark is going off, he cries turn! the glass holder answers done!”—­Bowditch’s Nav., p. 128.  “It is a kind of familiar shaking hands with all the vices.”—­Maturin’s Sermons, p. 170.  “She is a good natured woman;” “James is self opinionated;” “He is broken hearted.”—­Wright’s Gram., p. 147.  “These three examples apply to the present tense construction only.”—­Ib., p. 65.  “So that it was like a game of hide and go seek.”—­Edward’s First Lessons in Grammar, p. 90.

   “That lowliness is young ambition’s ladder,
    Whereto the climber upward turns his face.”—­Bucke’s Gram., p. 97.

UNDER RULE IV.—­OF ELLIPSES.

“This building serves yet for a school and a meeting-house.”

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the compound word schoolhouse is here divided to avoid a repetition of the last half.  But, according to Rule 4th, “When two or more compounds are connected in one sentence, none of them should be split to make an ellipsis of half a word.”  Therefore, “school” should be “schoolhouse;” thus, “This building serves yet for a schoolhouse and a meeting-house.”]

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