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.

“When he was restored, agreeable to the treaty, he was a perfect savage.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 235.  “How I shall acquit myself suitable to the importance of the trial.”—­Duncan’s Cic., p. 85.  “Can any thing show your holiness how unworthy you treat mankind?”—­Spect., No. 497.  “In what other [language,] consistent with reason and common sense, can you go about to explain it to him?”—­Lowth’s Gram., Pref., p. viii.  “Agreeable to this rule, the short vowel Sheva has two characters.”—­Wilson’s Hebrew Gram., p. 46.  “We shall give a remarkable fine example of this figure.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 347.  “All of which is most abominable false.”—­Barclay’s Works, iii, 431.  “He heaped up great riches, but passed his time miserable.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, ii, 202.  “He is never satisfied with expressing any thing clearly and simple.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 96.  “Attentive only to exhibit his ideas clear and exact, he appears dry.”—­Ib., p. 100.  “Such words as have the most liquids and vowels, glide the softest.”—­Ib., p. 129.  “The simplest points, such as are easiest apprehended.”—­Ib., p. 312.  “Too historical, to be accounted a perfect regular epic poem.”—­Ib., p. 441.  “Putting after them the oblique case, agreeable to the French construction.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 108.  “Where the train proceeds with an extreme slow pace.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., i, 151.  “So as scarce to give an appearance of succession.”—­Ib., i, 152.  “That concord between sound and sense, which is perceived in some expressions independent of artful pronunciation.”—­Ib., ii, 63.  “Cornaro had become very corpulent, previous to the adoption of his temperate habits.”—­Hitchcock, on Dysp., p. 396.  “Bread, which is a solid and tolerable hard substance.”—­Sandford and Merton, p. 38.  “To command every body that was not dressed as fine as himself.”—­Ib., p, 19.  “Many of them have scarce outlived their authors.”—­Pref. to Lily’s Gram., p. ix.  “Their labour, indeed, did not penetrate very deep.”—­Wilson’s Heb.  Gram., p. 30.  “The people are miserable poor, and subsist on fish.”—­Hume’s Hist., ii, 433.  “A scale, which I took great pains, some years since, to make.”—­Bucke’s Gram., p. 81.  “There is no truth on earth so well established as the truth of the Bible.”—­Taylor’s District School, p. 288.  “I know of no work so much wanted as the one Mr. Taylor has now furnished.”—­DR. NOTT:  ib., p. ii.  “And therefore their requests are seldom and reasonable.”—­Taylorib., p. 58.  “Questions are easier proposed than rightly answered.”—­Dillwyn’s Reflections, p. 19.  “Often reflect on the advantages you possess, and on the source from whence they are all derived.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 374.  “If there be no special Rule which requires it to be put forwarder.”—­Milnes’s Greek Gram., p. 234.  “The Masculine and Neuter have the same Dialect in all Numbers, especially when they end the same.”—­Ib., p. 259.

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