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

"There can scarce be a greater Defect in a Gentleman, than not to express himself well either in Writing or Speaking."—Locke, on Ed., p. 335. "She seldom or ever wore a thing twice in the same way."—Castle Rackrent, p. 84. "So can I give no reason, nor I will not."—Beauties of Shak., p. 45. "Nor I know not where I did lodge last night."—Ib., p. 270. "It is to be presumed they would become soonest proficient in Latin."—Burn's Gram., p. xi. "The difficulty of which has not been a little increased by that variety."—Ward's Pref. to Lily's Gram., p. xi. "That full endeavours be used in every monthly meeting to seasonably end all business or cases that come before them."—N. E. Discipline, p. 44. "In minds where they had scarce any footing before."—Spectator, No. 566. "The negative form is when the adverb not is used."—Sanborn's Gram., p. 61. "The interrogative form is when a question is asked."—Ibid. "The finding out the Truth ought to be his whole Aim."—Brightland's Gram., p. 239. "Mention the first instance when that is used in preference to who, whom, or which."—Sanborn's Gram., p. 96. "The plot was always exceeding simple. It admitted of few incidents."—Blair's Rhet., p. 470. "Their best tragedies make not a deep enough impression on the heart."—Ib., p. 472. "The greatest genius on earth, not even a Bacon, can be a perfect master of every branch."—Webster's Essays, p. 13. "The verb OUGHT is only used in the indicative [and subjunctive moods]."—Dr. Ash's Gram., p. 70. "It is still a greater deviation from congruity, to affect not only variety in the words, but also in the construction."— Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 28. "It has besides been found that, generally, students attend those lectures more carefully for which they pay."—Dr. Lieber, Lit. Conv., p. 65. "This book I obtained through a friend, it being not exposed for sale."—Woolsey, ib., p. 76. "Here there is no manner of resemblance but in the word drown."—Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 163. "We have had often occasion to inculcate, that the mind passeth easily and sweetly along a train of connected objects."—Ib., ii, 197. "Observe the periods when the most illustrious persons flourished."—Worcester's Hist., p. iv. "For every horse is not called Bucephalus, nor every dog Turk."—Buchanan's Gram., p. 15. "One can scarce avoid smiling at the blindness of a certain critic."—Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 257. "Provided always, that we run not into the extreme of pruning so very close, so as to give a hardness and dryness to style."—Jamieson's Rhet., p. 92; Blair's, 111. "Agreement is when one word is like another in number, case, gender or person."—Frost's Gram., p. 43. "Government is when one word causes another to be in some particular number, person or case."—Ibid. "It seems to be nothing more than the simple form of the adjective, and to imply not either comparison or degree."—Murray's Gram., 2d Ed., p. 47.

"The Indians had neither cows, horses, oxen, or sheep."—Olney's Introd. to Geog., p. 46. "Who have no other object in view, but, to make a show of their supposed talents."—Blair's Rhet., p. 344. "No other but these, could draw the attention of men in their rude uncivilized state."—Ib., p. 379. "That he shall stick at nothing, nor nothing stick with him."—Pope. "To enliven it into a passion, no more is required but the real or ideal presence of the object."—Kames, El. of Crit., i, 110. "I see no more to be made of it but to-rest upon the final cause first mentioned."—Ib., i, 175. "No quality nor circumstance contributes more to grandeur than force."—Ib., i, 215. "It being a quotation, not from a poet nor orator, but from a grave author, writing an institute of law."—Ib., i, 233. "And our sympathy cannot be otherwise gratified but by giving all the succour in our power."—Ib., i, 362. "And to no verse, as far as I know, is a greater variety of time necessary."—Ib., ii, 79. "English Heroic verse admits no more but four capital pauses."—Ib., ii, 105. "The former serves for no other purpose but to make harmony."—Ib., 231. "But the plan was not perhaps as new as some might think it."—Literary Conv., p. 85. "The impression received would probably be neither confirmed or corrected."—Ib., p. 183. "Right is nothing else but what reason acknowledges."—Burlamaqui, on Law, p. 32. "Though it should be of no other use but this."—BP. WILKINS: Tooke's D. P., ii, 27. "One hope no sooner dies in us but another rises up."—Spect., No. 535. "This rule implies nothing else but the agreement of an adjective with a substantive."—Adams Latin Gram., p. 156; Gould's, 129. "There can be no doubt but the plan of exercise pointed out at page 132, is the best that can be adopted."—Blair's Gram., p. viii. "The exertions of this gentleman have done more than any other writer on the subject."—DR. ABERCROMBIE: Rec. in Murray's Gram., Vol. ii, p. 306. "No accidental nor unaccountable event ought to be admitted."—Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 273. "Wherever there was much fire and vivacity in the genius of nations."—Jamieson's Rhet., p. 5. "I aim at nothing else but your safety."—Walker's Particles, p. 90. "There are pains inflicted upon man for other purposes except warning."—Wayland's Moral Sci., p. 122. "Of whom we have no more but a single letter remaining."—Campbell's Pref. to Matthew. "The publisher meant no more but that W. Ames was the author."—Sewel's History, Preface, p. xii. "Be neether bashful, nor discuver uncommon solicitude."—Webster's Essays, p. 403. "They put Minos to death, by detaining him so long in a bath, till he fainted."— Lempriere's Dict. "For who could be so hard-hearted to be severe?"— Cowley. "He must neither be a panegyrist nor a satirist."—Blair's Rhet., p. 353. "No man unbiassed by philosophical opinions, thinks that life, air, or motion, are precisely the same things."—Dr. Murray's Hist. of Lang., i, 426. "Which I had no sooner drank, but I found a pimple rising in my forehead."—ADDISON: Sanborn's Gram., p. 182. "This I view very important, and ought to be well understood."—Osborn's Key, p. 5. "So that neither emphases, tones, or cadences should be the same."—Sheridan's Elocution, p. 5.

   "You said no more but that yourselves must be
    The judges of the scripture sense, not we."—Dryden, p. 96.

"To be entirely devoid of relish for eloquence, poetry, or any of the fine arts, is justly construed to be an unpromising symptom of youth."—Blair's Rhet., p. 14. "Well met, George, for I was looking of you."—Walker's Particles, p. 441. "There is another fact worthy attention."—Channing's Emancip., p. 49. "They did not gather of a Lord's-day, in costly temples."—The Dial, No. ii, p. 209. "But certain ideas have, by convention between those who speak the same language, been agreed to be represented by certain articulate sounds."—Adams's Rhet., ii, 271. "A careful study of the language is previously requisite, in all who aim at writing it properly."—Blair's Rhet., p. 91. "He received his reward in a small place, which he enjoyed to his death."—Notes to the Dunciad, B. ii, l. 283. "Gaddi, the pupil of Cimabue, was not unworthy his master."—Literary History, p. 268. "It is a new, and picturesque, and glowing image, altogether worthy the talents of the great poet who conceived it."—Kirkham's Elocution, p. 100. "If the right does exist, it is paramount his title."—Angell, on Tide Waters, p. 237. "The most appropriate adjective should be placed nearest the noun."—Sanborn's Gram., p. 194. "Is not Mr. Murray's octavo grammar more worthy the dignified title of a 'Philosophical Grammar?'"—Kirkham's Gram., p. 39. "If it shall be found unworthy the approbation and patronage of the literary public."—Perley's Gram., p. 3. "When the relative is preceded by two words referring to the same thing, its proper antecedent is the one next it."—Bullions's E. Gram., p. 101. "The magistrates commanded them to depart the city."—Sewel's Hist., p. 97. "Mankind act oftener from caprice than reason."—Murray's Gram., i, 272. "It can never view, clearly and distinctly, above one object at a time."—Jamieson's Rhet., p. 65. "The theory of speech, or systematic grammar, was never regularly treated as a science till under the Macedonian kings."—Knight, on Greek Alph., p. 106. "I have been at London a year, and I saw the king last summer."—Murray's Key, 8vo, p. 198. "This is a crucifying of Christ, and a rebelling of Christ."—Waldenfield. "There is another advantage worthy our observation."—Bolingbroke, on Hist., p. 26. "Certain conjunctions also require the subjunctive mood after them, independently on the sense."—Grant's Lat. Gram., p. 77. "If the critical reader will think proper to admit of it at all."—Priestley's Gram., p. 191. "It is the business of an epic poet to copy after nature."—Blair's Rhet., p. 427. "Good as the cause is, it is one from which numbers have deserted."— Murray's Key, 8vo, p. 222. "In respect of the images it will receive from matter."—Spectator, No. 413. "Instead of following on to whither morality would conduct it."—Dymond's Essays, p. 85. "A variety of questions upon subjects on which their feelings, and wishes, and interests, are involved."—Ib., p. 147. "In the Greek, Latin, Saxon, and German tongues, some of these situations are termed CASES, and are expressed by additions to the Noun instead of by separate words and phrases."—Booth's Introd., p. 33. "Every teacher is bound during three times each week, to deliver a public lecture, gratis."—Howitt's Student-Life in Germany, p. 35. "But the professors of every political as well as religious creed move amongst each other in manifold circles."—Ib., p. 113.

"The inseparable Prepositions making no Sense alone, they are used only in Composition."—Buchanan's Gram., p. 66. "The English Scholar learns little from the two last Rules."—Ib., Pref., p. xi. "To prevent the body being stolen by the disciples."—Watson's Apology, p. 123. "To prevent the Jews rejoicing at his death."—Wood's Dict., p. 584. "After he had wrote the chronicles of the priesthood of John Hyrcanus."—Whiston's Josephus, v, 195. "Such words are sometimes parsed as a direct address, than which, nothing could be farther from the truth."—Goodenow's Gram., p. 89. "The signs of the tenses in these modes are as follows."—C. Adams's Gram., p. 33. "The signs of the tenses in the Potential mode are as follows."—Ibid. "And, if more promiscuous examples be found necessary, they may be taken from Mr. Murray's English Exercises."— Nesbit's Parsing, p. xvi. "One is a numeral adjective, the same as ten."—Ib., p. 95. "Nothing so much distinguishes a little mind as to stop at words."—MONTAGUE: Letter-Writer, p. 129. "But I say, again, What signifies words?"—Id., ib. "Obedience to parents is a divine command, given in both the Old and the New Testaments."—Nesbit's Parsing, p. 207. "A Compound Subject is a union of several Subjects to all which belong the same Attribute."—Fosdick's De Sacy, on General Gram., p. 22. "There are other languages in which the Conjunctive does not prevent our expressing the subject of the Conjunctive Proposition by a Pronoun."—Ib., p. 58. "This distinction must necessarily be expressed by language, but there are several different modes of doing it."—Ib., p. 64. "This action may be considered with reference to the person or thing upon whom the action falls."—Ib., p. 97. "There is nothing in the nature of things to prevent our coining suitable words."—Barnard's Gram., p. 41. "What kind of a book is this?"—Ib., p. 43. "Whence all but him had fled."—Ib., p. 58. "Person is a distinction between individuals, as speaking, spoken to, or spoken of."—Ib., p. 114. "He repented his having neglected his studies at college."—Emmons's Gram., p. 19. "What avails the taking so much medicine, when you are so careless about taking cold?"—Ib., p. 29. "Active transitive verbs are those where the action passes from the agent to the object."—Ib., p. 33. "Active intransitive verbs, are those where the action is wholly confined to the agent or actor."—Ibid. "Passive verbs express the receiving, or suffering, the action."—Ib., p. 34. "The pluperfect tense expresses an action or event that passed prior or before some other period of time specified in the sentence."—Ib., p. 42. "There is no doubt of his being a great statesman."—Ib., p. 64. "Herschell is the fartherest from the sun of any of the planets."—Fuller's Gram., p. 66. "There has not been introduced into the foregoing pages any reasons for the classifications therein adopted."—Ib., p. 80. "There must be a comma before the verb, as well as between each nominative case."—Ib., p. 98. "Yon, with former and latter, are also adjectives."—Brace's Gram., p. 17. "You was."—Ib., p. 32. "If you was."—Ib., p. 39. "Two words which end in ly succeeding each other are indeed a little offensive to the ear."—Ib., p. 85; Lennie's Gram., p. 102.

   "Is endless life and happiness despis'd?
    Or both wish'd here, where neither can be found?"—Young, p. 124.

"Because any one of