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.
Works, i, 435.  “As a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he go through, both treadeth down and teareth in pieces.”—­Micah, v, 8.  “Frequented by every fowl whom nature has taught to dip the wing in water.”—­Rasselas, p. 10.  “He had two sons, one of which was adopted by the family of Maximus.”—­Lempriere, w.  AEmytius.  “And the ants, who are collected by the smell, are burned by fire.”—­The Friend, xii, 49.  “They being the agents, to which this thing was trusted.”—­Nixon’s Parser, p. 139.  “A packhorse who is driven constantly forwards and backwards to market.”—­LOCKE:  Joh.  Dict. “By instructing children, the affection of which will be increased.”—­Nixon’s Parser, p. 136.  “He had a comely young woman which travelled with him.”—­Hutchinson’s Hist., i, 29.  “A butterfly, which thought himself an accomplished traveller, happened to light upon a beehive.”—­Inst., p. 143.  “It is an enormous elephant of stone, who disgorges from his uplifted trunk a vast but graceful shower.”—­Zenobia, i, 150.  “He was met by a dolphin, who sometimes swam before him, and sometimes behind him.”—­Edward’s First Lessons in Gram., p. 34.

   “That Caesar’s horse, who, as fame goes,
    Had corns upon his feet and toes,
    Was not by half so tender-hooft,
    Nor trod upon the ground so soft.”—­Hudibras, p. 6.

UNDER NOTE IV.—­NOUNS OF MULTITUDE.

“He instructed and fed the crowds who surrounded him.”—­Murray’s Exercises, p. 52.  “The court, who gives currency to manners, ought to be exemplary.”—­Ibid. “Nor does he describe classes of sinners who do not exist.”—­Anti-Slavery Magazine, i, 27.  “Because the nations among whom they took their rise, were not savage.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 113.  “Among nations who are in the first and rude periods of society.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 60.  “The martial spirit of those nations, among whom the feudal government prevailed.”—­Ib., p. 374.  “France who was in alliance with Sweden.”—­Smollett’s Voltaire, vi, 187.  “That faction in England who most powerfully opposed his arbitrary pretensions.”—­Mrs. Macaulay’s Hist., iii, 21.  “We may say, the crowd, who was going up the street.’”—­Cobbett’s Gram., 204.  “Such members of the Convention who formed this Lyceum, as have subscribed this Constitution.”—­New-York Lyceum.

UNDER NOTE V.—­CONFUSION OF SENSES.

“The possessor shall take a particular form to show its case.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 53.  “Of which reasons the principal one is, that no Noun, properly so called, implies its own Presence.”—­Harris’s Hermes, p. 76.  “Boston is a proper noun, which distinguishes it from other cities.”—­Sanborn’s Gram., p. 22.  “Conjunction means union,

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