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

I."—Id. "Such peccadilloes pass with him for pious frauds."—Barclay cor. "In whom I am nearly concerned, and who, I know, would be very apt to justify my whole procedure."—Id. "Do not think such a man as I contemptible for my garb."—Addison cor. "His wealth and he bid adieu to each other."—Priestley cor. "So that, 'He is greater than I,' will be more grammatical than, 'He is greater than me.'"—Id. "The Jesuits had more interests at court than he."—Id. and Smollett cor. "Tell the Cardinal that I understand poetry better than he."—Iid. "An inhabitant of Crim Tartary was far more happy than he."—Iid. "My father and he have been very intimate since."—Fair Am. cor. "Who was the agent, and who, the object struck or kissed?"—Mrs. Bethune cor. "To find the person who, he imagined, was concealed there."—Kirkham cor. "He offered a great recompense to whosoever would help him." Better: "He offered a great recompense to any one who would help him."—Hume and Pr. cor. "They would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever (or any one who) might exercise the right of judgement."—Haynes cor. "They had promised to accept whosoever (or any one who) should be born in Wales."—Croker cor. "We sorrow not as they that have no hope."—Maturin cor. "If he suffers, he suffers as they that have no hope."—Id. "We acknowledge that he, and he only, hath been our peacemaker."—Gratton cor. "And what can be better than he that made it?"—Jenks cor. "None of his school-fellows is more beloved than he."—Cooper cor. "Solomon, who was wiser than they all."—Watson cor. "Those who the Jews thought were the last to be saved, first entered the kingdom of God."—Tract cor. "A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than both."—Bible cor. "A man of business, in good company, is hardly more insupportable, than she whom they call a notable woman."—Steele cor. "The king of the Sarmatians, who we may imagine was no small prince, restored to him a hundred thousand Roman prisoners."—Life of Anton. cor. "Such notions would be avowed at this time by none but rosicrucians, and fanatics as mad as they."—Campbell's Rhet., p. 203. "Unless, as I said, Messieurs, you are the masters, and not I."—Hall cor. "We had drawn up against peaceable travellers, who must have been as glad as we to escape."—Burnes cor. "Stimulated, in turn, by their approbation and that of better judges than they, she turned to their literature with redoubled energy."—Quarterly Rev. cor. "I know not who else are expected."—Scott cor. "He is great, but truth is greater than we all." Or: "He is great, but truth is greater than any of us."—H. Mann cor.. "He I accuse has entered." Or, by ellipsis of the antecedent, thus: "Whom I accuse has entered."—Fowler cor.; also Shakspeare.

"Scotland and thou did each in other live."—Dryden cor.

"We are alone; here's none but thou and I."—Shak. cor.

"I rather would, my heart might feel your love, Than my unpleas'd eye see your courtesy."—Shak. cor.

"Tell me, in sadness, who is she you love?"—Shak. cor.

    "Better leave undone, than by our deeds acquire
    Too high a fame, when he we serve's away."—Shak. cor.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE III; OF APPOSITION.

"Now, therefore, come thou, let us make a covenant, thee and me."—Bible cor. "Now, therefore, come thou, we will make a covenant, thou and I."—Variation corrected. "The word came not to Esau, the hunter, that stayed not at home; but to Jacob, the plain man, him that dwelt in tents."—Penn cor. "Not to every man, but to the man of God, (i.e.,) him that is led by the spirit of God."—Barclay cor. "For, admitting God to be a creditor, or him to whom the debt should be paid, and Christ him that satisfies or pays it on behalf of man the debtor, this question will arise, whether he paid that debt as God, or man, or both?"—Penn cor. "This Lord Jesus Christ, the heavenly Man, the Emmanuel, God with us, we own and believe in: him whom the high priests raged against," &c.—Fox cor. "Christ, and He crucified, was the Alpha and Omega of all his addresses, the fountain and foundation of his hope and trust."—Exp. cor. "Christ, and He crucified, is the head, and the only head, of the church."—Denison cor. "But if Christ, and He crucified, is the burden of the ministry, such disastrous results are all avoided."—Id. "He never let fall the least intimation, that himself, or any other person whosoever, was the object of worship."—View cor. "Let the elders that rule well, be counted worthy of double honour, especially them who labour in the word and doctrine."—Bible cor. "Our Shepherd, he who is styled King of saints, will assuredly give his saints the victory."—Sermon cor. "It may seem odd, to talk of us subscribers."—Fowle cor. "And they shall have none to bury them: they, their wives, nor their sons, nor[533] their daughters; for I will pour their wickedness upon them."—Bible cor. "Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger, and him that ministered to my wants."—Bible cor.

   "Amidst the tumult of the routed train,
    The sons of false Antimachus were slain;
    Him who for bribes his faithless counsels sold,
    And voted Helen's stay for Paris' gold."—Pope cor.

    "See the vile King his iron sceptre bear—
    His only praise attends the pious heir;
    Him in whose soul the virtues all conspire,
    The best good son, from the worst wicked sire."—Lowth cor.

    "Then from thy lips poured forth a joyful song
    To thy Redeemer!—yea, it poured along
    In most melodious energy of praise,
    To God, the Saviour, him of ancient days."—Arm Chair cor.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE IV; OF POSSESSIVES. UNDER NOTE I.—THE POSSESSIVE FORM.

"Man's chief good is an upright mind."—Key to Inst. "The translator of Mallet's History has the following note."—Webster cor. "The act, while it gave five years' full pay to the officers, allowed but one year's pay to the privates."—Id. "For the study of English is preceded by several years' attention to Latin and Greek."—Id. "The first, the Court-Baron, is the freeholders' or freemen's court."—Coke cor. "I affirm that Vaugelas's definition labours under an essential defect."—Campbell cor.; and also Murray. "There is a chorus in Aristophanes's plays."—Blair cor. "It denotes the same perception in my mind as in theirs."—Duncan cor. "This afterwards enabled him to read Hickes's Saxon Grammar."—Life of Dr. Mur. cor. "I will not do it for ten's sake."—Ash cor. Or: "I will not destroy it for ten's sake."—Gen., xviii, 32. "I arose, and asked if those charming infants were hers."—Werter cor. "They divide their time between milliners' shops and the taverns."—Dr. Brown cor. "The angels' adoring of Adam is also mentioned in the Talmud."—Sale cor. "Quarrels arose from the winners' insulting of those who lost."—Id. "The vacancy occasioned by Mr. Adams's resignation."—Adv. to Adams's Rhet. cor. "Read, for instance, Junius's address, commonly called his Letter to the King."—Adams cor. "A perpetual struggle against the tide of Hortensius's influence."—Id. "Which, for distinction's sake, I shall put down severally."—R. Johnson cor. "The fifth case is in a clause signifying the matter of one's fear."—Id. "And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field."—Alger cor. "Arise for thy servants' help, and redeem them for thy mercy's sake."—Jenks cor. "Shall not their cattle, their substance, and every beast of theirs, be ours?"—COM. BIBLE: Gen., xxxiv, 23. "Its regular plural, bullaces, is used by Bacon."—Churchill cor. "Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house."—Scott cor. "Behold, they that wear soft clothing, are in kings' houses."—Alger's Bible. "Then Jethro, Moses's father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses's wife, and her two sons; and Jethro, Moses's father-in-law, came, with his sons and his wife, unto Moses."—Scott's Bible. "King James's translators merely revised former translations."—Frazee cor. "May they be like corn on houses' tops."—White cor.

"And for his Maker's image' sake exempt."—Milton cor.

"By all the fame acquired in ten years' war."—Rowe cor.

"Nor glad vile poets with true critics' gore."—Pope cor.

    "Man only of a softer mold is made,
    Not for his fellows' ruin, but their aid."—Dryden cor.

UNDER NOTE II.—POSSESSIVES CONNECTED.

"It was necessary to have both the physician's and the surgeon's advice."—L. Murray's False Syntax, Rule 10. "This outside fashionableness of the tailor's or the tirewoman's making."—Locke cor. "Some pretending to be of Paul's party, others of Apollos's, others of Cephas's, and others, (pretending yet higher,) to be of Christ's."—Wood cor. "Nor is it less certain, that Spenser and Milton's spelling agrees better with our pronunciation."—Phil. Museum cor. "Law's, Edwards's, and Watts's Survey of the Divine Dispensations." Or thus: "Law, Edwards, and Watts's, Surveys of the Divine Dispensations."—Burgh cor. "And who was Enoch's Saviour, and the prophets'?"—Bayly cor. "Without any impediment but his own, his parents', or his guardian's will."—Journal corrected. "James relieves neither the boy's nor the girl's distress."—Nixon cor. "John regards neither the master's nor the pupil's advantage."—Id. "You reward neither the man's nor the woman's labours."—Id. "She examines neither James's nor John's conduct."—Id. "Thou pitiest neither the servant's nor the master's injuries."—Id. "We promote England's or Ireland's happiness."—Id. "Were Cain's and Abel's occupation the same?"—G. Brown. "Were Cain and Abel's occupations the same?"—Id. "What was Simon and Andrew's employment?"—Id. "Till he can read for himself Sanctius's Minerva with Scioppius's and Perizonius's Notes."—Locke cor.

   "And love and friendship's finely-pointed dart
    Falls blunted from each indurated heart." Or:—

    "And love's and friendship's finely-pointed dart
    Fall blunted from each indurated heart."—Goldsmith cor.

UNDER NOTE III.—CHOICE OF FORMS.

"But some degree of trouble is the portion of all men."—L. Murray et al. cor. "With the names of his father and mother upon the blank leaf."—Abbott cor. "The general, in the name of the army, published a declaration."—Hume cor. "The vote of the Commons."—Id. "The House of Lords."—Id. "A collection of the faults of writers;"—or, "A collection of literary faults."—Swift cor. "After ten years of wars."—Id. "Professing his detestation of such practices as those of his predecessors."—Pope cor. "By that time I shall have ended my year of office."—W. Walker cor. "For the sake of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip."—Bible and Mur. cor. "I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they may also obtain salvation."—Bibles cor. "He was heir to the son of Louis the Sixteenth."—W. Allen. "The throne we honour is the people's choice."—Rolla. "An account of the proceedings of Alexander's court."—Inst. "An excellent tutor for the child of a person of fashion!"—Gil Blas cor. "It is curious enough, that this sentence of the Bishop's is, itself, ungrammatical."—Cobbett cor. "The troops broke into the palace of the Emperor Leopold."—Nixon cor. "The meeting was called by desire of Eldon the Judge."—Id. "The occupation of Peter, John, and Andrew, was that of fishermen."—Murray's Key, R. 10. "The debility of the venerable president of the Royal Academy, has lately increased."—Maunder cor.

UNDER NOTE IV.—NOUNS WITH POSSESSIVES PLURAL.

"God hath not given us our reason to no purpose."—Barclay cor. "For our sake, no doubt, this is written."—Bible cor. "Are not health and strength of body desirable for their own sake?"—Harris and Murray cor. "Some sailors who were boiling their dinner upon the shore."—Day cor. "And they, in their turn, were subdued by others."—Pinnock cor. "Industry on our part is not superseded by God's grace."—Arrowsmith cor. "Their health perhaps may be pretty well secured."—Locke cor. "Though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor."—See 2 Cor., viii, 9. "It were to be wished, his correctors had been as wise on their part."—Harris cor. "The Arabs are commended by the ancients for being most exact to their word, and respctful to their kindred."—Sale cor. "That is, as a reward of some exertion on our part."—Gurney cor. "So that it went ill with Moses for their sake."—Ps. cor. "All liars shall have their part in the burning lake."—Watts cor. "For our own sake as well as for thine."—Pref. to Waller cor. "By discovering their ability to detect and amend errors."—L. Murray cor.

   "This world I do renounce; and, in your sight,
    Shake patiently my great affliction off."—Shak. cor.

    "If your relenting anger yield to treat,
    Pompey and thou, in safety, here may meet."—Rowe cor.

UNDER NOTE V.—POSSESSIVES WITH PARTICIPLES.

"This will encourage him to proceed without acquiring the prejudice."—Smith cor. "And the notice which they give of an action as being completed or not completed."—L. Mur. et al. cor. "Some obstacle, or impediment, that prevents it from taking place."—Priestley and A. Mur. cor. "They have apostolical authority for so frequently urging the seeking of the Spirit."—The Friend cor. "Here then is a wide field for reason to exert its powers in relation to the objects of taste."—Dr. Blair cor. "Now this they derive altogether from their greater