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

cor. "He had received no lessons from the Socrateses, the Platoes, and the Confuciuses of the age."—Haller cor. "I cannot tell whom to compare them to."—Bunyan cor. "I see there was some resemblance betwixt this good man and me."—Id. "They, by those means, have brought themselves into the hands and house of I do not know whom."—Id. "But at length she said, there was a great deal of difference between Mr. Cotton and us."—Hutch. Hist. cor. "So you must ride on horseback after us."—Mrs. Gilpin cor. "A separation must soon take place between our minister and me,"—Werter cor. "When she exclaimed on Hastings, you, and me."—Shak. cor. "To whom? to thee? What art thou?"—Id. "That they should always bear the certain marks of him from whom they came."—Bp. Butler cor.

   "This life has joys for you and me,
    And joys that riches ne'er could buy."—Burns cor.

UNDER THE NOTE.—OF TIME OR MEASURE.

"Such as almost every child, ten years old, knows."—Town cor. "Four months' schooling will carry any industrious scholar, of ten or twelve years of age, completely through this book."—Id. "A boy of six years of age may be taught to speak as correctly, as Cicero did before the Roman senate."—Webster cor. "A lad about twelve years old, who was taken captive by the Indians."—Id. "Of nothing else than that individual white figure of five inches in length, which is before him."—Campbell cor. "Where lies the fault, that boys of eight or ten years of age are with great difficulty made to understand any of its principles?"—Guy cor. "Where language three centuries old is employed."—Booth cor. "Let a gallows be made, of fifty cubits in height." Or: "Let a gallows fifty cubits high be made."—Bible cor. "I say to this child, nine years old, 'Bring me that hat.' He hastens, and brings it me."—Osborn cor. "'He laid a floor, twelve feet long, and nine feet wide:' that is, the floor was long to the extent of twelve feet, and wide to the extent of nine feet."—Merchant cor. "The Goulah people are a tribe of about fifty thousand in strength." Or: "The Goulah people are a tribe about fifty thousand strong."—Examiner cor.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE VIII; NOM. ABSOLUTE.

"He having ended his discourse, the assembly dispersed."—Inst. of E. G., p. 190. "I being young, they deceived me."—Ib., p. 279. "They refusing to comply, I withdrew."—Ib. "Thou being present, he would not tell what he knew."—Ib. "The child is lost; and I, whither shall I go?"—Ib. "O happy we! surrounded with so many blessings."—Ib. "'Thou too! Brutus, my son!' cried Cæsar, overcome."—Ib. "Thou! Maria! and so late! and who is thy companion?"—Mirror cor. "How swiftly our time passes away! and ah! we, how little concerned to improve it!"—Greenleaf's False Syntax, Gram., p. 47.

"There all thy gifts and graces we display, Thou, only thou, directing all our way."—Pope, Dunciad.

CHAPTER IV.—ADJECTIVES. CORRECTIONS UNDER THE NOTES TO RULE IX. UNDER NOTE I.—OF AGREEMENT.

"I am not recommending this kind of sufferings to your liking."—Sherlock cor. "I have not been to London these five years."—Webster cor. "Verbs of this kind are more expressive than their radicals."—Dr. Murray cor. "Few of us would be less corrupted than kings are, were we, like them, beset with flatterers, and poisoned with those vermin."—Kames cor. "But it seems these literati had been very ill rewarded for their ingenious labours."—R. Random cor. "If I had not left off troubling myself about things of that kind."—Swift cor. "For things of this sort are usually joined to the most noted fortune."—Bacon cor. "The nature of those riches and that long-suffering, is, to lead to repentance."—Barclay cor. "I fancy it is this kind of gods, that Horace mentions."—Addison cor. "During those eight days, they are prohibited from touching the skin."—Hope of Is. cor. "Besides, he had but a small quantity of provisions left for his army."—Goldsmith cor. "Are you not ashamed to have no other thoughts than those of amassing wealth, and of acquiring glory, credit, and dignities?"—Murray's Sequel, p. 115. "It distinguishes still more remarkably the feelings of the former from those of the latter."—Kames cor. "And these good tidings of the reign shall be published through all the world."—Campbell cor. "These twenty years have I been with thee."—Gen. cor. "In this kind of expressions, some words seem to be understood."—W. Walker cor. "He thought this kind of excesses indicative of greatness."—Hunt cor. "This sort of fellows is very numerous." Or thus: "Fellows of this sort are very numerous."—Spect. cor. "Whereas men of this sort cannot give account of their faith." Or: "Whereas these men cannot give account of their faith."—Barclay cor. "But the question is, whether those are the words."—Id. "So that expressions of this sort are not properly optative."—R. Johnson cor. "Many things are not such as they appear to be."—Sanborn cor. "So that all possible means are used."—Formey cor.

   "We have strict statutes, and most biting laws,
    Which for these nineteen years we have let sleep."—Shak. cor.

    "They could not speak, and so I left them both,
    To bear these tidings to the bloody king."—Shak. cor.

UNDER NOTE II.—OF FIXED NUMBERS.

"Why, I think she cannot be above six feet two inches high."—Spect. cor. "The world is pretty regular for about forty rods east and ten west."—Id. "The standard being more than two feet above it."—Bacon cor. "Supposing, among other things, that he saw two suns, and two Thebeses."—Id. "On the right hand we go into a parlour thirty-three feet by thirty-nine."—Sheffield cor. "Three pounds of gold went to one shield."—1 Kings cor. "Such an assemblage of men as there appears to have been at that session."—The Friend cor. "And, truly, he has saved me from this labour."—Barclay cor. "Within these three miles may you see it coming."—Shak. cor. "Most of the churches, not all, had one ruling elder or more."—Hutch. cor. "While a Minute Philosopher, not six feet high, attempts to dethrone the Monarch of the universe."—Berkley cor. "The wall is ten feet high."—Harrison cor. "The stalls must be ten feet broad."—Walker cor. "A close prisoner in a room twenty feet square, being at the north side of his chamber, is at liberty to walk twenty feet southward, not to walk twenty feet northward."—Locke cor. "Nor, after all this care and industry, did they think themselves qualified."—C. Orator cor. "No fewer than thirteen Gypsies were condemned at one Suffolk assize, and executed."—Webster cor. "The king was petitioned to appoint one person or more."—Mrs. Macaulay cor. "He carries weight! he rides a race! 'Tis for a thousand pounds."—Cowper cor. "They carry three tiers of guns at the head, and at the stern, two tiers"—Joh. Dict. cor. "The verses consist of two sorts of rhymes."—Formey cor. "A present of forty camel-loads of the most precious things of Syria."—Wood's Dict. cor. "A large grammar, that shall extend to every minutia"—S. Barrett cor.

   "So many spots, like næves on Venus' soil,
    One gem set off with many a glitt'ring foil."—Dryden cor.

    "For, off the end, a double handful
    It had devour'd, it was so manful."—Butler cor.

UNDER NOTE III.—OF RECIPROCALS.

"That shall and will might be substituted one for the other."—Priestley cor. "We use not shall and will promiscuously the one for the other."—Brightland cor. "But I wish to distinguish the three high ones from one an other also."—Fowle cor. "Or on some other relation which two objects bear to each other."—Blair cor. "Yet the two words lie so near to each other in meaning, that, in the present case, perhaps either of them would have been sufficient."—Id. "Both orators use great liberties in their treatment of each other."—Id. "That greater separation of the two sexes from each other."—Id. "Most of whom live remote from one an other."—Webster cor. "Teachers like to see their pupils polite to one an other"—Id. "In a little time, he and I must keep company with each other only."—Spect. cor. "Thoughts and circumstances crowd upon one an other."—Kames cor. "They cannot perceive how the ancient Greeks could understand one an other."—Lit. Conv. cor. "The poet, the patriot, and the prophet, vied with one an other in his breast."—Hazlitt cor. "Athamas and Ino loved each other."—C. Tales cor. "Where two things are compared or contrasted one with the other." Or: "Where two things, are compared or contrasted with each other."—Blair and Mur. cor. "In the classification of words, almost all writers differ from one an other."—Bullions cor.

   "I will not trouble thee, my child. Farewell;
    We'll no more meet; we'll no more see each other."—Shak. cor.

UNDER NOTE IV.—OF COMPARATIVES.

"Errors in education should be less indulged than any others."—Locke cor. "This was less his case than any other man's that ever wrote."—Pref. to Waller cor. "This trade enriched some other people more than it enriched them."—Mur. cor. "The Chaldee alphabet, in which the Old Testament has reached us, is more beautiful than any other ancient character known."—Wilson cor. "The Christian religion gives a more lovely character of God, than any other religion ever did."—Murray cor. "The temple of Cholula was deemed more holy than any other in New Spain."—Robertson cor. "Cibber grants it to be a better poem of its kind than any other that ever was written"—Pope cor. "Shakspeare is more faithful to the true language of nature, than any other writer."—Blair cor. "One son I had—one, more than all my other sons, the strength of Troy." Or: "One son I had—one, the most of all my sons, the strength of Troy."—Cowper cor. "Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his other children, because he was the son of his old age."—Bible cor.

UNDER NOTE V.—OF SUPERLATIVES.

"Of all simpletons, he was the greatest"—Nutting cor. "Of all beings, man has certainly the greatest reason for gratitude."—Id. "This lady is prettier than any of her sisters."—Peyton cor. "The relation which, of all the class, is by far the most fruitful of tropes, I have not yet mentioned."—Blair cor. "He studied Greek the most of all noblemen."—W. Walker cor. "And indeed that was the qualification which was most wanted at that time."—Goldsmith cor. "Yet we deny that the knowledge of him as outwardly crucified, is the best of all knowledge of him."—Barclay cor. "Our ideas of numbers are, of all our conceptions, the most accurate and distinct"—Duncan cor. "This indeed is, of all cases, the one in which it is least necessary to name the agent"—J. Q. Adams cor. "The period to which you have arrived, is perhaps the most critical and important moment of your lives."—Id. "Perry's royal octavo is esteemed the best of all the pronouncing dictionaries yet known."—D. H. Barnes cor. "This is the tenth persecution, and, of all the ten the most bloody."—Sammes cor. "The English tongue is the most susceptible of sublime imagery, of all the languages in the world."—Bucke cor. "Of all writers whatever, Homer is universally allowed to have had the greatest Invention."—Pope cor. "In a version of this particular work, which, more than any other, seems to require a venerable, antique cast."—Id. "Because I think him the best-informed naturalist that has ever written."—Jefferson cor. "Man is capable of being the most social of all animals."—Sheridan cor. "It is, of all signs (or expressions) that which most moves us."—Id. "Which, of all articles, is the most necessary."—Id.

   "Quoth he, 'This gambol thou advisest,
    Is, of all projects, the unwisest.'"—S. Butler cor.

UNDER NOTE VI.—OF INCLUSIVE TERMS.

"Noah and his family were the only antediluvians who survived the flood."—Webster cor. "I think it superior to any other grammar that we have yet had."—Blair cor. "We have had no other grammarian who has employed so much labour and judgement upon our native language, as has the author of these volumes."—British Critic cor. "Those persons feel most for the distresses of others, who have experienced distresses themselves."—L. Murray cor. "Never was any other people so much infatuated as the Jewish nation."—Id. et al. cor. "No other tongue is so full of connective particles as the Greek."—Blair cor. "Never was sovereign so much beloved by the people." Or: "Never was any other sovereign so much beloved by his people."—L. Murray cor. "Nothing else ever affected her so much as this misconduct of her child."—Id. et al. cor. "Of all the figures of speech, no other comes so near to painting as does metaphor."—Blair et al. cor. "I know no other writer so happy in his metaphors as is Mr. Addison."—Blair cor. "Of all the English authors, none is more happy in his metaphors than Addison."—Jamieson cor. "Perhaps no other writer in the world was ever so frugal of his words as Aristotle."—Blair and Jamieson cor. "Never was any other writer so happy in that concise and spirited style, as Mr. Pope."—Blair cor. "In the harmonious structure and disposition of his periods, no other writer whatever, ancient or modern, equals Cicero."—Blair and Jamieson cor. "Nothing else delights me so much as the works of nature."—L. Mur. cor.