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.

“Patroll; to go the rounds in a camp or garrison, to march about and observe what passes.”—­Webster’s Amer.  Dict., 8vo.  “Marshall; the chief officer of arms, one who regulates rank and order.”—­See Bailey’s Dict. “Weevill; a destructive grub that gets among corn.”—­See Rhym.  Dict. “It much excells all other studies and arts.”—­Walker’s Particles, p. 217.  “It is essentiall to all magnitudes, to be in one place.”—­Perkins’s Works, p. 403.  “By nature I was thy vassall, but Christ hath redeemed me.”—­Ib., p. 404.  “Some, being in want, pray for temporall blessings.”—­Ib., p. 412.  “And this the Lord doth, either in temporall or spirituall benefits.”—­Ib., p. 415.  “He makes an idoll of them, by setting his heart on them.”—­Ib., p. 416.  “This triall by desertion serveth for two purposes.”—­Ib., p. 420.  “Moreover, this destruction is both perpetuall and terrible.”—­Ib., p. 726.  “Giving to severall men several gifts, according to his good pleasure.”—­Ib., p. 731.  “Untill; to some time, place, or degree, mentioned.”—­See Red Book, p. 330.  “Annull; to make void, to nullify, to abrogate, to abolish.”  “Nitric acid combined with argill, forms the nitrate of argill.”—­Gregory’s Dict., art.  Chemistry.

   “Let modest Foster, if he will, excell
    Ten Metropolitans in preaching well.”—­Pope, p. 414.

UNDER RULE IX.—­OF FINAL E.

“Adjectives ending in able signify capacity; as, comfortable, tenable, improvable.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 33.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the word “improveable” here retains the final e of improve.  But, according to Rule 9th, “The final e of a primitive word is generally omitted before an additional termination beginning with a vowel.”  Therefore, this e should be omitted; thus, improvable.]

“Their mildness and hospitality are ascribeable to a general administration of religious ordinances.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 336.  “Retrench as much as possible without obscureing the sense.”—­James Brown’s Amer.  Gram., 1821, p. 11.  “Changable, subject to change; Unchangeable, immutable.”—­Walker’s Rhym.  Dict. “Tameable, susceptive of taming; Untameable, not to be tamed.”—­Ib. “Reconcileable, Unreconcileable, Reconcileableness; Irreconcilable, Irreconcilably, Irreconcilableness.”—­Johnson’s Dict. “We have thought it most adviseable to pay him some little attention.”—­ Merchants Criticisms.  “Proveable, that may be proved; Reprovable. blameable, worthy of reprehension.”—­Walker’s Dict. “Moveable and Immovable, Moveably and Immovably, Moveables and Removal, Moveableness and Improvableness, Unremoveable and Unimprovable, Unremoveably and Removable, Proveable and Approvable, Irreproveable and Reprovable, Unreproveable and Improvable,

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