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.

“That shall and will might be substituted for one another.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 131.  “We use not shall and will promiscuously for one another.”—­Brightland’s Gram., p. 110.  “But I wish to distinguish the three high ones from each other also.”—­Fowle’s True Eng.  Gram., p. 13.  “Or on some other relation, which two objects bear to one another.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 142.  “Yet the two words lie so near to one another in meaning, that in the present case, any one of them, perhaps, would have been sufficient.”—­Ib., p. 203.  “Both orators use great liberties with one another.”—­Ib., p. 244.  “That greater separation of the two sexes from one another.”—­Ib., p. 466.  “Most of whom live remote from each other.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 39.  “Teachers like to see their pupils polite to each other.”—­Webster’s El.  Spelling-Book, p. 28.  “In a little time, he and I must keep company with one another only.”—­Spect., No. 474.  “Thoughts and circumstances crowd upon each other.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., i, 32.  “They cannot see how the ancient Greeks could understand each other.”—­Literary Convention, p. 96.  “The spirit of the poet, the patriot, and the prophet, vied with each other in his breast.”—­Hazlitt’s Lect., p. 112.  “Athamas and Ino loved one another.”—­Classic Tales, p. 91.  “Where two things are compared or contrasted to one another.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 119.  “Where two things are compared, or contrasted, with one another.”—­Murray’s Gram., Vol. i, p. 324.  “In the classification of words, almost all writers differ from each other.”—­Bullions, E. Gram., p. iv.

   “I will not trouble thee, my child.  Farewell;
    We’ll no more meet; no more see one another.”—­Shak.  Lear.

UNDER NOTE IV.—­OF COMPARATIVES.

“Errours in Education should be less indulged than any.”—­Locke, on Ed., p. iv.  “This was less his case than any man’s that ever wrote.”—­Pref. to Waller.  “This trade enriched some people more than it enriched them.” [378]—­Murray’s Gram., Vol. i, p. 215.  “The Chaldee alphabet, in which the Old Testament has reached us, is more beautiful than any ancient character known.”—­Wilson’s Essay, p. 5.  “The Christian religion gives a more lovely character of God, than any religion ever did.”—­Murray’s Key, p. 169.  “The temple of Cholula was deemed more holy than any in New Spain.”—­Robertson’s America, ii, 477.  “Cibber grants it to be a better poem of its kind than ever was writ.”—­Pope.  “Shakspeare is more faithful to the true language of nature, than any writer.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 468.  “One son I had—­one, more than all my sons, the strength of Troy.”—­Cowper’s Homer.  “Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age.”—­Gen., xxxvii, 3.

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