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.
in Pr.  Gram., p. 104.  “They would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whomsoever might exercise the right of judgement.”—­Gov.  Haynes’s Speech, in 1832.  “They had promised to accept whomsoever should be born in Wales.”—­Stories by Croker.  “We sorrow not as them that have no hope.”—­Maturin’s Sermons, p. 27.  “If he suffers, he suffers as them that have no hope.”—­Ib., p. 32.  “We acknowledge that he, and him only, hath been our peacemaker.”—­Gratton.  “And what can be better than him that made it?”—­Jenks’s Prayers, p. 329.  “None of his school-fellows is more beloved than him.”—­Cooper’s Gram., p. 42.  “Solomon, who was wiser than them all.”—­Watson’s Apology, p. 76.  “Those whom the Jews thought were the last to be saved, first entered the kingdom of God.”—­Eleventh Hour, Tract, No. 4.  “A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.”—­Prov., xxvii, 3.  “A man of business, in good company, is hardly more insupportable than her they call a notable woman.”—­Steele, Sped.  “The king of the Sarmatians, whom we may imagine was no small prince, restored him a hundred thousand Roman prisoners.”—­Life of Antoninus, p. 83.  “Such notions would be avowed at this time by none but rosicrucians, and fanatics as mad as them.”—­Bolingbroke’s Ph.  Tr., p. 24.  “Unless, as I said, Messieurs, you are the masters, and not me.”—­BASIL HALL:  Harrison’s E. Lang., p. 173.  “We had drawn up against peaceable travellers, who must have been as glad as us to escape.”—­BURNES’S TRAVELS:  ibid. “Stimulated, in turn, by their approbation, and that of better judges than them, she turned to their literature with redoubled energy.”—­QUARTERLY REVIEW:  Life of H. More:  ibid. “I know not whom else are expected.”—­SCOTT’S PIRATE:  ibid. “He is great, but truth is greater than us all.”—­Horace Mann, in Congress, 1850.  “Him I accuse has entered.”—­Fowler’s E. Gram., Sec.482:  see Shakspeare’s Coriolanus, Act V, sc. 5.

   “Scotland and thee did each in other live.”
        —­Dryden’s Po., Vol. ii, p. 220.

    “We are alone; here’s none but thee and I.”
        —­Shak., 2 Hen.  VI.

    “Me rather had, my heart might feel your love,
    Than my unpleas’d eye see your courtesy.”
        —­Idem:  Joh.  Dict.

    “Tell me, in sadness, whom is she you love?”
        —­Id., Romeo and Juliet, A. I, sc. 1.

    “Better leave undone, than by our deeds acquire
    Too high a fame, when him we serve’s away.”
        —­Shak., Ant. and Cleop.

RULE III.—­APPOSITION.

A Noun or a personal Pronoun used to explain a preceding noun or pronoun, is put, by apposition, in the same case:  as, “But it is really I, your old friend and neighbour., Piso, late a dweller upon the Coelian hill, who am now basking in the warm skies of Palmyra.”—­Zenobia.

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