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.

   “Satire of sense, alas! can Sporus feel? 
    Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?”—­Pope, p. 396.

LESSON V.—­MIXED EXAMPLES.

“He hath no delight in the strength of an horse.”—­Maturin’s Sermons, p. 311.  “The head of it would be an universal monarch.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 98.  “Here they confound the material and formal object of faith.”—­Barclay’s Works, Vol. iii, p. 57.  “The Irish and Scotish Celtic are one language; the Welsh, Cornish, and Armorican, are another.”—­Dr. Murray’s Hist., Vol. ii, p. 316.  “In an uniform and perspicuous manner.”—­Ib., i, 49.  “SCRIPTURE, n. Appropriately, and by way of distinction, the books of the Old and New Testament; the Bible.”—­Webster’s Dict. “In two separate volumes, entitled the Old and the New Testaments.”—­Wayland’s Mor.  Sci., p. 139.  “The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament contain a revelation.”—­Ib. “Q has ever an u after it; which is not sounded in words derived from the French.”—­Wilson’s Essay, p. 32.  “What should we say of such an one?  That he is regenerate?  No.”—­Hopkins’s Prim.  Ch., p. 22.  “Some grammarians subdivide vowels into the simple and the compound.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, p. 8.  “Emphasis has been further distinguished into the weaker and stronger emphasis.”—­Ib., i, 244.  “Emphasis has also been divided into superior and the inferior emphasis.”—­Ib., i, 245, “Pronouns must agree with their antecedents, or nouns which they represent, in gender, number, and person.”—­Merchant’s Gram., pp. 86, 111, and 130.  “The adverb where, is often improperly used, for the relative pronoun and preposition.”—­Ib., 94.  “The termination ish imports diminution, or lessening the quality.”—­Ib., 79.  “In this train all their verses proceed:  the one half of the line always answering to the other.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 384.  “To an height of prosperity and glory, unknown to any former age.”—­Murray’s Sequel, p. 352.  “HWILC, who, which, such as, such an one, is declined as follows.”—­Gwilt’s Saxon Gram., p. 15.  “When a vowel precedes y, an s only is required to form a plural.”—­Bucke’s Gram., p. 40.  “He is asked what sort of a word each is, whether a primitive, derivative, or compound.”—­British Gram., p. vii.  “It is obvious, that neither the 2d, 3d, nor 4th chapter of Matthew is the first; consequently, there are not four first chapters.”—­Churchill’s Gram., p. 306.  “Some thought, which a writer wants art to introduce in its proper place.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 109.  “Groves and meadows are most pleasing in the spring.”—­Ib., p. 207.  “The conflict between the carnal and spiritual mind, is often long.”—­Gurney’s Port.  Ev., p. 146.  “A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful.”—­Burke’s Title-page.

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