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

"I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel."—Bible cor. "There is a harshness in the following sentences."—Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 152. "Indeed, such a one is not to be looked for."—Dr. Blair cor. "If each of you will be disposed to approve himself a useful citizen."—Id. "Land with them had acquired almost a European value."—Webster cor. "He endeavoured to find out a wholesome remedy."—Neef cor. "At no time have we attended a yearly meeting more to our own satisfaction."—The Friend cor. "Addison was not a humorist in character."—Kames cor. "Ah me! what a one was he!"—Lily cor. "He was such a one as I never saw before"—Id. "No man can be a good preacher, who is not a useful one."—Dr. Blair cor. "A usage which is too frequent with Mr. Addison."—Id. "Nobody joins the voice of a sheep with the shape of a horse."—Locke cor. "A universality seems to be aimed at by the omission of the article."—Priestley cor. "Architecture is a useful as well as a fine art."—Kames cor. "Because the same individual conjunctions do not preserve a uniform signification."— Nutting cor. "Such a work required the patience and assiduity of a hermit."—Johnson cor. "Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity."—Id. "His bravery, we know, was a high courage of blasphemy."—Pope cor. "HYSSOP; an herb of bitter taste."—Pike cor.

   "On each enervate string they taught the note
    To pant, or tremble through a eunuch's throat."—Pope cor.

"At a session of the court, in March, it was moved," &c.—Hutchinson cor. "I shall relate my conversations, of which I kept memoranda."—D. D'Ab. cor. "I took an other dictionary, and with a pair of scissors cut out, for instance, the word ABACUS."—A. B. Johnson cor. "A person very meet seemed he for the purpose, and about forty-five years old."—Gardiner cor. "And it came to pass, about eight days after these sayings."—Bible cor. "There were slain of them about three thousand men."—1 Macc. cor. "Until I had gained the top of these white mountains, which seemed other Alps of snow."—Addison cor. "To make them satisfactory amends for all the losses they had sustained."—Goldsmith cor. "As a first-fruit of many that shall be gathered."—Barclay cor. "It makes indeed a little amend, (or some amends,) by inciting us to oblige people."—Sheffield cor. "A large and lightsome back stairway (or flight of backstairs) leads up to an entry above."—Id. "Peace of mind is an abundant recompense for any sacrifices of interest."—Murray et al. cor. "With such a spirit, and such sentiments, were hostilities carried on."—Robertson cor. "In the midst of a thick wood, he had long lived a voluntary recluse."—G. B. "The flats look almost like a young forest."—Chronicle cor. "As we went on, the country for a little way improved, but scantily."—Freeman cor. "Whereby the Jews were permitted to return into their own country, after a captivity of seventy years at Babylon."—Rollin cor. "He did not go a great way into the country."—Gilbert cor.

   "A large amend by fortune's hand is made,
    And the lost Punic blood is well repay'd."—Rowe cor.

"As where a landscape is conjoined with the music of birds, and the odour of flowers."—Kames cor. "The last order resembles the second in the mildness of its accent, and the softness of its pause."—Id. "Before the use of the loadstone, or the knowledge of the compass."—Dryden cor. "The perfect participle and the imperfect tense ought not to be confounded."—Murray cor. "In proportion as the taste of a poet or an orator becomes more refined."—Blair cor. "A situation can never be more intricate, so long as there is an angel, a devil, or a musician, to lend a helping hand."—Kames cor. "Avoid rude sports: an eye is soon lost, or a bone broken."—Inst., p. 262. "Not a word was uttered, nor a sign given."—Ib. "I despise not the doer, but the deed."—Ib. "For the sake of an easier pronunciation and a more agreeable sound."—Lowth cor. "The levity as well as the loquacity of the Greeks made them incapable of keeping up the true standard of history."— Bolingbroke cor.

"It is proper that the vowels be a long and a short one."—Murray cor. "Whether the person mentioned was seen by the speaker a long or a short time before."—Id. et al. "There are three genders; the masculine, the feminine, and the neuter."—Adam cor. "The numbers are two; the singular and the plural."—Id. et al. "The persons are three; the first, the second, and the third."—Iidem. "Nouns and pronouns have three cases; the nominative, the possessive, and the objective."— Comly and Ing. cor. "Verbs have five moods; namely, the infinitive, the indicative, the potential, the subjunctive, and the imperative."— Bullions et al. cor. "How many numbers have pronouns? Two, the singular and the plural."—Bradley cor. "To distinguish between an interrogative and an exclamatory sentence."—Murray et al. cor. "The first and the last of which are compound members."—Lowth cor. "In the last lecture, I treated of the concise and the diffuse, the nervous and the feeble manner."—Blair cor. "The passive and the neuter verbs I shall reserve for some future conversation."—Ingersoll cor. "There are two voices; the active and the passive."—Adam et al. cor. "WHOSE is rather the poetical than the regular genitive of WHICH."—Johnson cor. "To feel the force of a compound or a derivative word."—Town cor. "To preserve the distinctive uses of the copulative and the disjunctive conjunctions."—Murray et al. cor. "E has a long and a short sound in most languages."—Bicknell cor. "When the figurative and the literal sense are mixed and jumbled together."—Dr. Blair cor. "The Hebrew, with which the Canaanitish and the Phoenician stand in connexion."—Conant and Fowler cor. "The languages of Scandinavia proper, the Norwegian and the Swedish."—Fowler cor.

"The path of truth is a plain and safe path."—Murray cor. "Directions for acquiring a just and happy elocution."—Kirkham cor. "Its leading object is, to adopt a correct and easy method."—Id. "How can it choose but wither in a long and sharp winter?"—Cowley cor. "Into a dark and distant unknown."—Dr. Chalmers cor. "When the bold and strong enslaved his fellow man."—Chazotte cor. "We now proceed to consider the things most essential to an accurate and perfect sentence."—Murray cor. "And hence arises a second and very considerable source of the improvement of taste."—Dr. Blair cor. "Novelty produces in the mind a vivid and agreeable emotion."—Id. "The deepest and bitterest feeling still is that of the separation."—Dr. M'Rie cor. "A great and good man looks beyond time."—See Brown's Inst., p. 263. "They made but a weak and ineffectual resistance."—Ib. "The light and worthless kernels will float."—Ib. "I rejoice that there is an other and better world."—Ib. "For he is determined to revise his work, and present to the public an other and better edition."—Kirkham cor. "He hoped that this title would secure to him an ample and independent authority."—L. Murray cor. et al. "There is, however, an other and more limited sense."—J. Q. Adams cor.

"This distinction forms what are called the diffuse style and the concise."—Dr. Blair cor. "Two different modes of speaking, distinguished at first by the denominations of the Attic manner and the Asiatic."—Adams cor. "But the great design of uniting the Spanish and French monarchies under the former, was laid."—Bolingbroke cor. "In the solemn and poetic styles, it [do or did] is often rejected."—Allen cor. "They cannot be, at the same time, in both the objective case and the nominative." Or: "They cannot be, at the same time, in both the objective and the nominative case." Or: "They cannot be, at the same time, in the nominative case, and also in the objective." Or: "They cannot be, at the same time, in the nominative and objective cases."—Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 148. Or, better: "They cannot be, at the same time, in both cases, the nominative and the objective."—Murray et al. cor. "They are named the positive, comparative, and superlative degrees."—Smart cor. "Certain adverbs are capable of taking an inflection; namely, that of the comparative and superlative degrees."—Fowler cor. "In the subjunctive mood, the present and imperfect tenses often carry with them a future sense."—Murray et al. cor. "The imperfect, the perfect, the pluperfect, and the first-future tense, of this mood, are conjugated like the same tenses of the indicative."—Kirkham bettered. "What rules apply in parsing personal pronouns of the second and third persons?"—Id. "Nouns are sometimes in the nominative or the objective case after the neuter verb be, or after an active-intransitive or a passive verb." "The verb varies its ending in the singular, in order to agree with its nominative, in the first, second, and third persons."—Id. "They are identical in effect with the radical and the vanishing stress."—Rush cor. "In a sonnet, the first, the fourth, the fifth, and the eighth line, usually rhyme to one an other: so do the second, third, sixth, and seventh lines; the ninth, eleventh, and thirteenth lines; and the tenth, twelfth, and fourteenth lines."—Churchill cor. "The iron and golden ages are run; youth and manhood are departed."—Wright cor. "If, as you say, the iron and the golden age are past, the youth and the manhood of the world."—Id. "An Exposition of the Old and New Testaments."—Henry cor. "The names and order of the books of the Old and the New Testament."—Bible cor. "In the second and third persons of that tense."—Murray cor. "And who still unites in himself the human and the divine nature."—Gurney cor. "Among whom arose the Italian, Spanish, French, and English languages."—Murray cor. "Whence arise these two numbers, the singular and the plural."—Burn cor.

"Neither the definitions nor the examples are entirely the same as his."—Ward cor. "Because it makes a discordance between the thought and the expression."—Kames cor. "Between the adjective and the following substantive."—Id. "Thus Athens became both the repository and the nursery of learning."—Chazotte cor. "But the French pilfered from both the Greek and the Latin."—Id. "He shows that Christ is both the power and the wisdom of God."—The Friend cor. "That he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living."—Bible cor. "This is neither the obvious nor the grammatical meaning of his words."—Blair cor. "Sometimes both the accusative and the infinitive are understood."—Adam and Gould cor. "In some cases, we can use either the nominative or the accusative, promiscuously."—Iidem. "Both the former and the latter substantive are sometimes to be understood."—Iidem. "Many of which have escaped both the commentator and the poet himself."—Pope cor. "The verbs MUST and OUGHT, have both a present and a past signification."—L. Murray cor. "How shall we distinguish between the friends and the enemies of the government?"—Dr. Webster cor. "Both the ecclesiastical and the secular powers concurred in those measures."—Dr. Campbell cor. "As the period has a beginning and an end within itself, it implies an inflection."—J. Q. Adams cor. "Such as ought to subsist between a principal and an accessory."—Ld. Kames cor.

"When both the upward and the downward slide occur in the sound of one syllable, they are called a CIRCUMFLEX, or WAVE."—Kirkham cor. "The word THAT is used both in the nominative and in the objective case."—Sanborn cor. "But in all the other moods and tenses, both of the active and of the passive voice [the verbs] are conjugated at large."—Murray cor. "Some writers on grammar, admitting the second-future tense into the indicative mood, reject it from the subjunctive."—Id. "After the same conjunction, to use both the indicative and the subjunctive mood in the same sentence, and under the same circumstances, seems to be a great impropriety."—Id. "The true distinction between the subjunctive and the indicative mood in this tense."—Id. "I doubt of his capacity to teach either the French or the English language."—Chazotte cor. "It is as necessary to make a distinction between the active-transitive and the active-intransitive verb, as between the active and the passive."—Nixon cor.

"As comprehending the terms uttered by the artist, the mechanic, and the husbandman."—Chazotte cor. "They may be divided into four classes; the Humanists, the Philanthropists, the Pestalozzians, and the Productives."—Smith cor. "Verbs have six tenses; the present, the imperfect, the perfect, the pluperfect, the first-future, and the second-future."—Murray et al. cor. "Is it an irregular neuter verb [from be, was, being, been; found in] the indicative mood, present tense, third person, and singular number."—Murray cor. "SHOULD GIVE is an irregular active-transitive verb [from give, gave, given, giving; found] in the potential mood, imperfect tense, first person, and plural number."—Id. "US is a personal pronoun, of the first person, plural number, masculine gender, and objective case."—Id. "THEM is a personal pronoun, of the third person, plural number,