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.

UNDER NOTE II.—­CHANGE OF NUMBER.

“So will I send upon you famine, and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee.”—­Ezekiel, v, 17.  “Why do you plead so much for it? why do ye preach it up?”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 180.  “Since thou hast decreed that I shall bear man, your darling.”—­Edward’s First Lesson in Gram., p. 106.  “You have my book and I have thine; i.e. thy book.”—­Chandler’s Gram., 1821, p. 22.  “Neither art thou such a one as to be ignorant of what you are.”—­Bullions, Lat.  Gram., p. 70.  “Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord, and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you.”—­Jeremiah, iii, 12.  “The Almighty, unwilling to cut thee off in the fullness of iniquity, has sent me to give you warning.”—­Art of Thinking, p. 278.  “Wert thou born only for pleasure? were you never to do any thing?”—­Collier’s Antoninus, p. 63.  “Thou shalt be required to go to God, to die, and give up your account.”—­BARNES’S NOTES:  on Luke, xii, 20.  “And canst thou expect to behold the resplendent glory of the Creator? would not such a sight annihilate you?”—­Milton.  “If the prophet had commanded thee to do some great thing, would you have refused?”—­Common School Journal, i, 80.  “Art thou a penitent?  Evince your sincerity by bringing forth fruits meet for repentance.”—­Christian’s Vade-Mecum, p. 117.  “I will call thee my dear son:  I remember all your tenderness.”—­ Classic Tales, p. 8.  “So do thou, my son:  open your ears, and your eyes.”—­Wright’s Athens, p. 33.  “I promise you, this was enough to discourage thee.”—­Pilgrim’s Progress, p. 446.  “Ere you remark an other’s sin, Bid thy own conscience look within.”—­Gay.  “Permit that I share in thy woe, The privilege can you refuse?”—­Perfect’s Poems, p. 6.  “Ah!  Strephon, how can you despise Her who without thy pity dies?”—­Swift’s Poems, p. 340.

   “Thy verses, friend, are Kidderminster stuff,
    And I must own, you’ve measur’d out enough.”—­Shenstone.

    “This day, dear Bee, is thy nativity;
    Had Fate a luckier one, she’d give it ye.”—­Swift.

UNDER NOTE III.—­WHO AND WHICH.

“Exactly like so many puppets, who are moved by wires.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 462.  “They are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt.”—­Leviticus, xxv, 42.  “Behold I and the children which God hath given me.”—­Heb., ii, 13; Webster’s Bible, and others. “And he sent Eliakim which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe.”—­2 Kings, xix, 2.  “In a short time the streets were cleared of the corpses who filled them.”—­M’Ilvaine’s Led., p. 411.  “They are not of those which teach things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.”—­Barclay’s

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