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

"A bigoted and tyrannical clergy will be feared."—See Johnson, Walker, &c. "Jacob worshiped his Creator, leaning on the top of his staff."—Murray's Key, 8vo, p. 165. "For it is all marvellously destitute of interest."—See Johnson, Walker, and Worcester. "As, box, boxes; church, churches; lash, lashes; kiss, kisses; rebus, rebuses."—Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 40. "Gossiping and lying go hand in hand."—See Webster's Dict., and Worcester's, w. Gossiping. "The substance of the Criticisms on the Diversions of Purley was, with singular industry, gossiped by the present precious Secretary at [of] war, in Payne the bookseller's shop."—Tooke's Diversions, Vol. i, p. 187. "Worship makes worshiped, worshiper, worshiping; gossip, gossiped, gossiper, gossiping; fillip, filliped, filliper, filliping."—Web. Dict. "I became as fidgety as a fly in a milk-jug."—See ib. "That enormous error seems to be riveted in popular opinion." "Whose mind is not biased by personal attachments to a sovereign."—See ib. "Laws against usury originated in a bigoted prejudice against the Jews."—Webster cor. "The most critical period of life is usually between thirteen and seventeen."—Id. "Generalissimo, the chief commander of an army or military force."—Every Dict. "Tranquilize, to quiet, to make calm and peaceful."—Webster's Dict. "Pommelled, beaten, bruised; having pommels, as a sword-hilt."—Webster et al. cor. "From what a height does a jeweller look down upon his shoemaker!"—Red Book cor. "You will have a verbal account from my friend and fellow traveller."—Id. "I observe that you have written the word counselled with one l only."—Ib. "They were offended at such as combated these notions."—Robertson cor. "From libel, come libelled, libeller, libelling, libellous; from grovel, grovelled, groveller, grovelling; from gravel, gravelled, and gravelling."—Webster cor. "Woolliness, the state of being woolly."—Worcester's Dict. "Yet he has spelled chapelling, bordeller, medalist, metaline, metalist, metalize, clavellated, etc, with ll, contrary to his rule."—Webster cor. "Again, he has spelled cancellation and snivelly with single l, and cupellation, pannellation wittolly, with ll."—Id. "Oily, fatty, greasy, containing oil, glib."—Walker cor. "Medalist, one curious in medals; Metalist, one skilled in metals."—Walker's Rhym. Dict. "He is benefited."—Webster. "They travelled for pleasure."—Clark cor.

   "Without you, what were man? A grovelling herd,
    In darkness, wretchedness, and want enchain'd."—Beattle cor.

"He hopes, therefore, to be pardoned by the critic."—Kirkham corrected. "The leading object of every public speaker should be, to persuade."—Id. "May not four feet be as poetic as five; or fifteen feet as poetic as fifty?"—Id. "Avoid all theatrical trick and mimicry, and especially all scholastic stiffness."—Id. "No one thinks of becoming skilled in dancing, or in music, or in mathematics, or in logic, without long and close application to the subject."—Id. "Caspar's sense of feeling, and susceptibility of metallic and magnetic excitement, were also very extraordinary."—Id. "Authorship has become a mania, or, perhaps I should say, an epidemic."—Id. "What can prevent this republic from soon raising a literary standard?"—Id. "Courteous reader, you may think me garrulous upon topics quite foreign to the subject before me."—Id. "Of the Tonic, Subtonic, and Atonic elements."—Id. "The subtonic elements are inferior to the tonics, in all the emphatic and elegant purposes of speech."—Id. "The nine atonics and the three abrupt subtonics cause an interruption to the continuity of the syllabic impulse." [526]—Id. "On scientific principles, conjunctions and prepositions are [not] one [and the same] part of speech."—Id. "That some inferior animals should be able to mimick human articulation, will not seem wonderful."—L. Murray cor.

   "When young, you led a life monastic,
    And wore a vest ecclesiastic;
    Now, in your age, you grow fantastic."—Denham's Poems, p. 235.

"Fearlessness; exemption from fear, intrepidity."—Johnson cor. "Dreadlessness; fearlessness, intrepidity, undauntedness."—Id. "Regardlessly, without heed; Regardlessness, heedlessness."—Id. "Blamelessly, innocently; Blamelessness, innocence."—Id. "That is better than to be flattered into pride and carelessness."—Id. "Good fortunes began to breed a proud recklessness in them."—Id. "See whether he lazily and listlessly dreams away his time."—Id. "It maybe, the palate of the soul is indisposed by listlessness or sorrow."—Id. "Pitilessly, without mercy; Pitilessness, unmercifulness."—Id. "What say you to such as these? abominable, accordable, agreeable, etc."— Tooke cor. "Artlessly; naturally, sincerely, without craft."—Johnson cor. "A chillness, or shivering of the body, generally precedes a fever."—See Webster. "Smallness; littleness, minuteness, weakness."—Walker's Dict., et al. "Galless, adj. Free from gall or bitterness."—Webster cor. "Tallness; height of stature, upright length with comparative slenderness."—Webster's Dict. "Willful; stubborn, contumacious, perverse, inflexible."—See ib. "He guided them by the skillfulness of his hands."—See ib. "The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof."—FRIENDS' BIBLE: Ps. xxiv, 1. "What is now, is but an amassment of imaginary conceptions."—Glanville cor. "Embarrassment; perplexity, entanglement."—Walker. "The second is slothfulness, whereby they are performed slackly and carelessly."— Perkins cor. "Installment; induction into office, part of a large sum of money, to be paid at a particular time."—See Webster's Dict. "Inthrallment; servitude, slavery, bondage."—Ib.

   "I, who at some times spend, at others spare,
    Divided between carelessness and care."—Pope cor.

"Shall, on the contrary, in the first person, simply foretells."—Lowth's Gram., p. 41; Comly's, 38; Cooper's, 51; Lennie's, 26. "There are a few compound irregular verbs, as befall, bespeak, &c."—Ash cor. "That we might frequently recall it to our memory."—Calvin cor. "The angels exercise a constant solicitude that no evil befall us."—Id. "Inthrall; to enslave, to shackle, to reduce to servitude."—Johnson. "He makes resolutions, and fulfills them by new ones."—See Webster. "To enroll my humble name upon the list of authors on Elocution."—See Webster. "Forestall; to anticipate, to take up beforehand."—Johnson. "Miscall; to call wrong, to name improperly."—Webster. "Bethrall; to enslave, to reduce to bondage."—Id. "Befall; to happen to, to come to pass."—Walkers Dict. "Unroll; to open what is rolled or convolved."—Webster's Dict. "Counterroll; to keep copies of accounts to prevent frauds."—See ib. "As Sisyphus uprolls a rock, which constantly overpowers him at the summit."—G. Brown. "Unwell; not well, indisposed, not in good health."—Webster. "Undersell; to defeat by selling for less, to sell cheaper than an other."—Johnson. "Inwall; to enclose or fortify with a wall."—Id. "Twibill; an instrument with two bills, or with a point and a blade; a pickaxe, a mattock, a halberd, a battleaxe."—Dict. cor. "What you miscall their folly, is their care."—Dryden cor. "My heart will sigh when I miscall it so."—Shak. cor. "But if the arrangement recalls one set of ideas more readily than an other."—Murray's Gram., Vol. i, p. 334.

   "'Tis done; and since 'tis done, 'tis past recall
    And since 'tis past recall, must be forgotten."—Dryden cor.

"The righteous is taken away from the evil to come."—Isaiah, lvii, 1. "Patrol; to go the rounds in a camp or garrison, to march about and observe what passes."—See Joh. Dic. "Marshal; the chief officer of arms, one who regulates rank and order."—See ib. "Weevil; a destructive grub that gets among corn."—See ib. "It much excels all other studies and arts."—W. Walker cor. "It is essential to all magnitudes, to be in one place."—Perkins cor. "By nature I was thy vassal, but Christ hath redeemed me."—Id. "Some being in want, pray for temporal blessings."—Id. "And this the Lord doth, either in temporal or in spiritual benefits."—Id. "He makes an idol of them, by setting his heart on them." "This trial by desertion serveth for two purposes."—Id. "Moreover, this destruction is both perpetual and terrible."—Id. "Giving to several men several gifts, according to his good pleasure." "Until; to some time, place, or degree, mentioned."—See Dict. "Annul; to make void, to nullify, to abrogate, to abolish."—See Dict. "Nitric acid combined with argil, forms the nitrate of argil."—Gregory cor.

   "Let modest Foster, if he will, excel
    Ten metropolitans in preaching well."—Pope cor.

"Adjectives ending in able signify capacity; as, comfortable, tenable, improvable."—Priestly cor. "Their mildness and hospitality are ascribable to a general administration of religious ordinances."— Webster cor. "Retrench as much as possible without obscuring the sense."—J. Brown cor. "Changeable, subject to change; Unchangeable, immutable."—Walker cor. "Tamable, susceptive of taming; Untamable, not to be tamed."—Id. "Reconcilable, Unreconcilable, Reconcilableness; Irreconcilable, Irreconcilably, Irreconcilableness."—Johnson cor. "We have thought it most advisable to pay him some little attention."— Merchant cor. "Provable, that may be proved; Reprovable, blamable, worthy of reprehension."—Walker cor. "Movable and Immovable, Movably and Immovably, Movables and Removal, Movableness and Improvableness, Unremovable and Unimprovable, Unremovably and Removable, Provable and Approvable, Irreprovable and Reprovable, Unreprovable and Improvable, Unimprovableness and Improvably."—Johnson cor. "And with this cruelty you are chargeable in some measure yourself."—Collier cor. "Mothers would certainly resent it, as judging it proceeded from a low opinion of the genius of their sex."—Brit. Gram. cor. "Tithable, subject to the payment of tithes; Salable, vendible, fit for sale; Losable, possible to be lost; Sizable, of reasonable bulk or size."—See Webster's Dict. "When he began this custom, he was puting and very tender."—Locke cor.

   "The plate, coin, revenues, and movables,
    Whereof our uncle Gaunt did stand possess'd."—Shak. cor.

"Diversely; in different ways, differently, variously."—See Walker's Dict. "The event thereof contains a wholesome instruction."—Bacon cor. "Whence Scaliger falsely concluded that Articles were useless."—Brightland cor. "The child that we have just seen is wholesomely fed."—Murray cor. "Indeed, falsehood and legerdemain sink the character of a prince."—Collier cor. "In earnest, at this rate of management, thou usest thyself very coarsely."—Id. "To give them an arrangement and a diversity, as agreeable as the nature of the subject would admit."—Murray cor. "Alger's Grammar is only a trifling enlargement of Murray's little Abridgement."—G. Brown. "You ask whether you are to retain or to omit the mute e in the words, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, lodgement, adjudgement, and prejudgement."—Red Book cor. "Fertileness, fruitfulness; fertilely, fruitfully, abundantly."—Johnson cor. "Chastely, purely, without contamination; Chasteness, chastity, purity."—Id. "Rhymester, n. One who makes rhymes; a versifier; a mean poet."—Walker, Chalmers, Maunder, Worcester. "It is therefore a heroical achievement to disposess [sic—KTH] this imaginary monarch."—Berkley cor. "Whereby is not meant the present time, as he imagines, but the time past."—R. Johnson cor. "So far is this word from affecting the noun, in regard to its definiteness, that its own character of definiteness or indefiniteness, depends upon the name to which it is prefixed."—Webster cor.

   "Satire, by wholesome lessons, would reclaim,
    And heal their vices to secure their fame "—Brightland cor.

"Solon's the veriest fool in all the play."—Dryden cor. "Our author prides himself upon his great sliness and shrewdness."—Merchant cor. "This tense, then, implies also the signification of debeo."—R. Johnson cor. "That may be applied to a subject, with respect to something accidental."—Id. "This latter author accompanies his note with a distinction."—Id. "This rule is defective, and none of the annotators have sufficiently supplied its deficiencies."—Id. "Though the fancied supplement of Sanctius, Scioppius, Vossius, and Mariangelus, may take place."—Ib. "Yet, as to the commutableness of these two tenses, which is denied likewise, they [the foregoing examples] are all one [; i.e., exactly equivalent]"—Id. "Both these tenses may represent a futurity, implied by the dependence of the clause."—Id. "Cry, cries, crying, cried, crier, decrial; Shy, shier, shiest, shily, shiness; Fly, flies, flying, flier, high-flier; Sly, slier, sliest, slily, sliness; Spy, spies, spying, spied, espial; Dry, drier, driest, drily, driness."—Cobb, Webster, and Chalmers cor. "I would sooner listen to the thrumming of a dandizette at her piano."—Kirkham cor. "Send her away; for she crieth after us."—Matt., v, 23. "IVIED, a. overgrown with ivy."—Cobb's Dict., and Maunders.

   "Some drily plain, without invention's aid,
    Write dull receipts how poems may be made."—Pope cor.

"The gayety of youth should be tempered by the precepts of age."—Murray cor. "In the storm of 1703, two thousand stacks of chimneys were blown down in and about London."—Red Book cor. "And the vexation was not abated by the hackneyed plea of haste."—Id. "The fourth sin of our days is lukewarmness."—Perkins cor. "God hates the workers of iniquity, and destroys them that speak lies."—Id. "For, when he lays his hand upon us, we may not fret."—Id. "Care not for it; but if thou mayst be free, choose it rather."—Id. "Alexander Severus saith, 'He that buyeth, must sell; I will not suffer buyers and sellers of offices.'"—Id. "With these measures, fell in all moneyed men."—See Johnson's Dict. "But rattling nonsense in full volleys breaks."—Murray's Reader, q. Pope. "Valleys are the intervals betwixt mountains."—Woodward cor. "The Hebrews had fifty-two journeys or marches."—Wood cor. "It was not possible to manage or steer the galleys thus fastened together."—Goldsmith cor. "Turkeys were not known to naturalists till after the discovery of America."—Gregory cor. "I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys."—SHAK.: in Johnson's Dict. "Men worked at embroidery, especially in abbeys."—Constable cor. "By which all purchasers or mortgagees may be secured of all moneys they lay out."—Temple cor. "He would fly to the mines or the galleys, for his recreation."—South cor. "Here pulleys make the pond'rous oak ascend."—Gay cor.

    ———"You need my help, and you say,
    Shylock, we would have moneys."—Shak. cor.

"Will any able writer authorize other men to revise his works?"—G. B. "It can be made as strong and expressive as this Latinized English."—Murray cor. "Governed by the success or failure of an enterprise."—Id. "Who have patronized the cause of justice against powerful oppressors."—Id., et al. "Yet custom authorizes this use of it."—Priestley cor. "They surprise myself, ****; and I even think the writers themselves will be surprised."—Id. "Let the interest rise to any