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.
554.  “I have got an hussy of a maid, who is most craftily given to this.”—­Ib., No. 534.  “Argus is said to have had an hundred eyes, some of which were always awake.”—­Classic Stories, p. 148.  “Centiped, an hundred feet; centennial, consisting of a hundred years.”—­Town’s Analysis, p. 19.  “No good man, he thought, could be an heretic.”—­Gilpin’s Lives, p. 72.  “As, a Christian, an infidel, an heathen.”—­Ash’s Gram., p. 50.  “Of two or more words, usually joined by an hyphen.”—­Blair’s Gram., p. 7.  “We may consider the whole space of an hundred years as time present.”—­BEATTIE:  Murray’s Gram., p. 69.  “In guarding against such an use of meats and drinks.”—­Ash’s Gram., p. 138.  “Worship is an homage due from man to his Creator.”—­Annual Monitor for 1836.  “Then, an eulogium on the deceased was pronounced.”—­Grimshaw’s U. S., p. 92.  “But for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.”—­Gen., ii, 20.  “My days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.”—­Psalms, cii, 3.  “A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof”—­Exod., xii, 45.  “The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill, as the hill of Bashan.”—­Psalms, lxviii, 15.  “But I do declare it to have been an holy offering, and such an one too as was to be once for all.”—­Wm. Penn.  “An hope that does not make ashamed those that have it.”—­Barclay’s Works, Vol. i, p. 15.  “Where there is not an unity, we may exercise true charity.”—­Ib., i, 96.  “Tell me, if in any of these such an union can be found?”—­Brown’s Estimate, ii, 16.

   “Such holy drops her tresses steeped,
    Though ’twas an hero’s eye that weeped.”—­Sir W. Scott.

LESSON II.—­INSERT ARTICLES.

“This veil of flesh parts the visible and invisible world.”—­Sherlock.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the article the is omitted before invisible, where the sense requires it.  But, according to a suggestion on page 225th, “Articles should be inserted as often as the sense requires them.”  Therefore, the should be here supplied; thus, “This veil of flesh parts the visible and the invisible world.”]

“The copulative and disjunctive conjunctions operate differently on the verb.”—­Murray’s Gram., Vol. ii, p. 286.  “Every combination of a preposition and article with the noun.”—­Ib., i, 44. “Either signifies, ‘the one or the other;’ neither imports not either, that is, ’not one nor the other.’”—­Ib., i, 56.  “A noun of multitude may have a pronoun, or verb, agreeing with it, either of the singular or plural number.”—­Bucke’s Gram., p. 90.  “Copulative conjunctions are, principally, and, as, both, because, for, if, that, then, since, &c.”—­See ib., 28.  “The two real genders are the masculine

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