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.
atchievements of Charlemagne and his Peers, or Paladins.”—­Ib., p. 374.  “Aye, aye; this slice to be sure outweighs the other.”—­Blair’s Reader, p. 31.  “In the common phrase, good-bye, bye signifies passing, going.  The phrase signifies, a good going, a prosperous passage, and is equivalent to farewell.”—­Webster’s Dict. “Good-by, adv.—­a contraction of good be with you—­a familiar way of bidding farewell.”—­See Chalmers’s Dict. “Off he sprung, and did not so much as stop to say good bye to you.”—­Blair’s Reader, p. 16.  “It no longer recals the notion of the action.”—­Barnard’s Gram., p. 69.

   “Good-nature and good-sense must ever join;
    To err, is human; to forgive, divine.”—­Pope, Ess. on Crit.

EXERCISE XI.—­MIXED ERRORS.

“The practices in the art of carpentry are called planeing, sawing, mortising, scribing, moulding, &c.”—­Blair’s Reader, p. 118.  “With her left hand, she guides the thread round the spindle, or rather round a spole which goes on the spindle.”—­Ib., p. 134.  “Much suff’ring heroes next their honours claim.”—­POPE:  Johnson’s Dict., w.  Much.  “Vein healing verven, and head purging dill.”—­SPENSER:  ib., w.  Head.  “An, in old English, signifies if; as, ‘an it please your honor.’”—­Webster’s Dict. “What, then, was the moral worth of these renouned leaders?”—­M’Ilvaine’s Lect., p. 460.  “Behold how every form of human misery is met by the self denying diligence of the benevolent.”—­Ib., p. 411.  “Reptiles, bats, and doleful creatures—­jackalls, hyenas, and lions—­inhabit the holes, and caverns, and marshes of the desolate city.”—­Ib., p. 270.  “ADAYS, adv.  On or in days; as, in the phrase, now adays.”—­Webster’s Dict. “REFEREE, one to whom a thing is referred; TRANSFERREE, the person to whom a transfer is made.”—­Ib. “The Hospitallers were an order of knights who built a hospital at Jerusalem for pilgrims.”—­Ib. “GERARD, Tom, or Tung, was the institutor and first grand master of the knights hospitalers:  he died in 1120.”—­Biog.  Dict. “I had a purpose now to lead our many to the holy land.”—­SHAK.:  in Johnson’s Dict. “He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.”—­Psalms, cv, 25.  “In Dryden’s ode of Alexander’s Feast, the line, ‘Faln, faln, faln, faln,’ represents a gradual sinking of the mind.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., Vol. ii, p. 71.  “The first of these lines is marvelously nonsensical.”—­Jamieson’s Rhet., p. 117.  “We have the nicely chiseled forms of an Apollo and a Venus, but it is the same cold marble still.”—­Christian Spect., Vol. viii, p. 201.  “Death waves his mighty wand and paralyses all.”—­Bucke’s Gram., p. 35.  “Fear God.  Honor the patriot.  Respect virtue.”—­Kirkham’s

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