The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown (free ebook reader .txt) 📕

place."— Campbell's Rhet., p. 260. "For he no sooner accosted her, but he gained his point."—Burder's Hist., i, 6. "And all the modern writers on this subject have done little else but translate them."—Blair's Rhet., p. 336. "One who had no other aim, but to talk copiously and plausibly."— Ib., p. 317. "We can refer it to no other cause but the structure of the eye."—Ib., p. 46. "No more is required but singly an act of vision."— Kames, El. of Crit., i, 171. "We find no more in its composition, but the particulars now mentioned."— Ib., i, 48. "He pretends not to say, that it hath any other effect but to raise surprise."—Ib., ii, 61. "No sooner was the princess dead, but he freed himself."—Johnson's Sketch of Morin. "Ought is an imperfect verb, for it has no other modification besides this one."—Priestley's Gram., p. 113. "The verb is palpably nothing else but the tie."—Neef's Sketch, p. 66. "Does he mean that theism is capable of nothing else except being opposed to polytheism or atheism?"—Blair's Rhet., p. 104. "Is it meant that theism is capable of nothing else besides being opposed to polytheism, or atheism?"—Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 307. "There is no other method of teaching that of which any one is ignorant, but by means of something already known"—DR. JOHNSON: Murray's Gram., i, 163; Ingersoll's, 214. "O fairest flower, no sooner blown but blasted!"— Milton's Poems, p, 132. "Architecture and gardening cannot otherwise entertain the mind, but by raising certain agreeable emotions or feelings."—Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 318. "Or, rather, they are nothing else but nouns."—British Gram., p. 95.

   "As if religion were intended
    For nothing else but to be mended."—Hudibras, p. 11.

UNDER NOTE V.—RELATIVES EXCLUDE CONJUNCTIONS.

"To prepare the Jews for the reception of a prophet mightier than him, and whose shoes he was not worthy to bear."—Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 214. "Has this word which represents an action an object after it, and on which it terminates?"—Osborn's Key, p. 3. "The stores of literature lie before him, and from which he may collect, for use, many lessons of wisdom."— Knapp's Lectures, p. 31. "Many and various great advantages of this Grammar, and which are wanting in others, might be enumerated."— Greenleaf's Gram., p. 6. "About the time of Solon, the Athenian legislator, the custom is said to have been introduced, and which still prevails, of writing in lines from left to right."—Jamieson's Rhet., p. 19. "The fundamental rule of the construction of sentences, and into which all others might be resolved, undoubtedly is, to communicate, in the clearest and most natural order, the ideas which we mean to transfuse into the minds of others."—Blair's Rhet., p. 120; Jamieson's, 102. "He left a son of a singular character, and who behaved so ill that he was put in prison."—Murray's Key, 8vo, p. 221. "He discovered some qualities in the youth, of a disagreeable nature, and which to him were wholly unaccountable."—Ib., p. 213. "An emphatical pause is made, after something has been said of peculiar moment, and on which we want ['desire' M.] to fix the hearer's attention."—Blair's Rhet., p. 331; Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 248. "But we have duplicates of each, agreeing in movement, though differing in measure, and which make different impressions on the ear."—Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 259.

UNDER NOTE VI.—OF THE WORD THAT.

"It will greatly facilitate the labours of the teacher, at the same time that it will relieve the pupil of many difficulties."—Frost's El. of E. Gram., p. 4. "At the same time that the pupil is engaged in the exercises just mentioned, it will be a proper time to study the whole Grammar in course."—Bullions, Prin. of E. Gram., Revised Ed., p. viii. "On the same ground that a participle and auxiliary are allowed to form a tense."—BEATTIE: Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 76. "On the same ground that the voices, moods, and tenses, are admitted into the English tongue."—Ib., p. 101. "The five examples last mentioned, are corrected on the same principle that the preceding examples are corrected."—Ib., p. 186; Ingersoll's Gram., 254. "The brazen age began at the death of Trajan, and lasted till the time that Rome was taken by the Goths."—Gould's Lat. Gram., p. 277. "The introduction to the Duodecimo Edition, is retained in this volume, for the same reason that the original introduction to the Grammar, is retained in the first volume."—Murray's Gram., 8vo, Vol. ii, p. iv. "The verb must also be of the same person that the nominative case is."—Ingersoll's Gram., p. 16. "The adjective pronoun their, is plural for the same reason that who is."—Ib., p. 84. "The Sabellians could not justly be called Patripassians, in the same sense that the Noetians were so called."—Religious World, Vol. ii, p. 122. "This is one reason that we pass over such smooth language, without suspecting that it contains little or no meaning."—Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 298. "The first place that both armies came in sight of each other was on the opposite banks of the river Apsus."—Goldsmith's Rome, p. 118. "At the very time that the author gave him the first book for his perusal."—Campbell's Rhetoric, Preface, p. iv. "Peter will sup at the time that Paul will dine."—Fosdick's De Sacy, p. 81. "Peter will be supping at the time that Paul will enter."—Ibid. "These, at the same time that they may serve as models to those who may wish to imitate them, will give me an opportunity to cast more light upon the principles of this book."—Ib., p. 115.

   "Time was, like thee, they life possest,
    And time shall be, that thou shalt rest."
        —PARNELL; Mur. Seq., p. 241.

UNDER NOTE VII.—OF THE CORRESPONDENTS.

"Our manners should neither be gross, nor excessively refined."—Merchant's Gram., p. 11. "A neuter verb expresses neither action or passion, but being, or a state of being."—O. B. Peirce's Gram., p. 342. "The old books are neither English grammars, or grammars, in any sense of the English Language."—Ib., p. 378. "The author is apprehensive that his work is not yet as accurate and as much simplified as it may be."—Kirkham's Gram., p. 7. "The writer could not treat some topicks as extensively as was desirable."—Ib., p. 10. "Which would be a matter of such nicety, as no degree of human wisdom could regulate."—Murray's Gram., i, 26. "No undertaking is so great or difficult which he cannot direct."—Duncan's Cic., p. 126. "It is a good which neither depends on the will of others, nor on the affluence of external fortune."—Harris's Hermes, 299; Murray's Gram., i, 289. "Not only his estate, his reputation too has suffered by his misconduct."—Murray's Gram., i, 150; Ingersoll's, 238. "Neither do they extend as far as might be imagined at first view."—Blair's Rhet., p. 350. "There is no language so poor, but it hath two or three past tenses."—Ib., p. 82. "As far as this system is founded in truth, language appears to be not altogether arbitrary in its origin."—Ib., p. 56. "I have not that command of these convulsions as is necessary."—Spect., No. 474. "Conversation with such who know no arts which polish life."—Ib., No. 480. "And which can be neither very lively or very forcible."—Jamieson's Rhet., p. 78. "To that degree as to give proper names to rivers."—Dr. Murray's Hist of Lang., i, 327. "In the utter overthrow of such who hate to be reformed."—Barclay's Works, i, 443. "But still so much of it is retained, as greatly injures the uniformity of the whole."—Priestley's Gram., Pref., p. vii. "Some of them have gone to that height of extravagance, as to assert," &c.—Ib., p. 91. "A teacher is confined—not more than a merchant, and probably not as much."—Abbott's Teacher, p. 27. "It shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come."—Matt., xii, 32. "Which no body presumes, or is so sanguine to hope."—Swift, Drap. Let. v. "For the torrent of the voice, left neither time or power in the organs, to shape the words properly."—Sheridan's Elocution, p. 118. "That he may neither unnecessarily waste his voice by throwing out too much, or diminish his power by using too little."—Ib., p. 123. "I have retained only such which appear most agreeable to the measures of Analogy."—Littleton's Dict., Pref. "He is both a prudent and industrious man."—Day's Gram., p. 70. "Conjunctions either connect words or sentences."—Ib., pp. 81 and 101.

   "Such silly girls who love to chat and play,
    Deserve no care, their time is thrown away."—Tobitt's Gram., p. 20.

    "Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
    As to be hated needs but to be seen."—POPE: Mur. Gram., ii, 17.

    "Justice must punish the rebellious deed:
    Yet punish so, as pity shall exceed."—DRYDEN: in Joh. Dict.

UNDER NOTE VIII.—IMPROPER ELLIPSES.

"That, whose, and as relate to either persons or things."—Sanborn's Gram., p. 93. "Which and what, as adjectives, relate either to persons or things."—Ib., p. 70. "Whether of a public or private nature."— Adam's Rhet., i, 43. "Which are included both among the public and private wrongs."—Ib., i, 308. "I might extract both from the old and new testament numberless examples of induction."—Ib., ii, 66. "Many verbs are used both in an active and neuter signification."—Lowth's Gram., p. 30; Alger's, 26; Guy's, 21; Murray's, 60. "Its influence is likely to be considerable, both on the morals, and taste of a nation."—Blair's Rhet., p. 373. "The subject afforded a variety of scenes, both of the awful and tender kind."—Ib., p. 439. "Restlessness of mind disqualifies us, both for the enjoyment of peace, and the performance of our duty."—Murray's Key, ii, 166; Ingersoll's Gram., p. 10. "Adjective Pronouns are of a mixed nature, participating the properties both of pronouns and adjectives."—Murray's Gram., i, 55; Merchant's, 43; Flint's, 22. "Adjective Pronouns have the nature both of the adjective and the pronoun."—Frost's El. of Gram., p. 15. "Pronominal adjectives are a kind of compound part of speech, partaking the nature both of pronouns and adjectives."—Nutting's Gram., p. 36. "Nouns are used either in the singular or plural number."—Blair's Gram., p. 11. "The question is not, whether the nominative or accusative ought to follow the particles than and as; but, whether these particles are, in such particular cases, to be regarded as conjunctions or prepositions."—Campbell's Rhet., p. 204. "In English many verbs are used both as transitives and intransitives."—Churchill's Gram., p. 83. "He sendeth rain both on the just and unjust."—Guy's Gram., p. 56. "A foot consists either of two or three syllables."—Blair's Gram., p. 118. "Because they participate the nature both of adverbs and conjunctions."—Murray's Gram., i, 116. "Surely, Romans, what I am now about to say, ought neither to be omitted nor pass without notice."—Duncan's Cicero, p. 196. "Their language frequently amounts, not only to bad sense, but non-sense."—Kirkham's Gram., p. 14. "Hence arises the necessity of a social state to man both for the unfolding, and exerting of his nobler faculties."—Sheridan's Elocution, p. 147. "Whether the subject be of the real or feigned kind."—Blair's Rhet., p. 454. "Not only was liberty entirely extinguished, but arbitrary power felt in its heaviest and most oppressive weight."—Ib., p. 249. "This rule is applicable also both to verbal Critics and Grammarians."—Hiley's Gram., p. 144. "Both the rules and exceptions of a language must have obtained the sanction of good usage."—Ib., p. 143.

CHAPTER X.—PREPOSITIONS.

The syntax of Prepositions consists, not solely or mainly in their power of governing the objective case, (though this alone is the scope which most grammarians have given it,) but in their adaptation to the other terms between which they express certain relations, such as appear by the sense of the words uttered.

RULE XXIII.—PREPOSITIONS.

Prepositions show the relations of words, and of the things or thoughts expressed by them: as; "He came from Rome to Paris, in the company of many eminent men, and passed with them through many cities"—Analectic Magazine.

"Ah! who can tell the triumphs of the mind, By truth illumin'd, and by taste refin'd?"—Rogers.

EXCEPTION FIRST.

The preposition to, before an abstract infinitive, and at the head of a phrase which is made the subject of a verb, has no proper antecedent term of relation; as, "To learn to die, is the great business of life."—Dillwyn. "Nevertheless, to abide in the flesh, is more needful for you."—ST. PAUL: Phil., i, 24. "To be reduced to poverty, is a great affliction."

   "Too much to know, is, to know nought but fame;
    And every godfather can give a name."—Shakspeare.

EXCEPTION SECOND.

The preposition for, when it introduces its object before an infinitive, and the whole phrase is made the subject of a verb, has properly no antecedent term of relation; as, "For us to learn to die, is the great business of life."—"Nevertheless, for me to abide in the flesh, is more needful for you."—"For an old man to be reduced to poverty is a very great affliction."