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

her duty."—Penn cor. "To introduce its possessor into that way in which he should go."—Inf. S. Gram. cor. "Do not they say, that every true believer has the Spirit of God in him?"—Barclay cor. "There is none in his natural state righteous; no, not one."—Wood cor. "If ye were of the world, the world would love its own."—Bible cor. "His form had not yet lost all its original brightness."—Milton cor. "No one will answer as if I were his friend or companion."—Steele cor. "But, in lowliness of mind, let each esteem others better than himself."—Bible cor. "And let none of you imagine evil in his heart against his neighbour."—Id. "For every tree is known by its own fruit."—Id. "But she fell to laughing, like one out of his right mind."—M. Edgeworth cor. "Now these systems, so far from having any tendency to make men better, have a manifest tendency to make them worse."—Wayland cor. "And nobody else would make that city his refuge any more."—Josephus cor. "What is quantity, as it respects syllables or words? It is the time which a speaker occupies in pronouncing them."—Bradley cor. "In such expressions, the adjective so much resembles an adverb in its meaning, that it is usually parsed as such."—Bullions cor. "The tongue is like a racehorse; which runs the faster, the less weight he carries." Or thus: "The tongue is like a racehorse; the less weight it carries, the faster it runs."—Addison, Murray, et al. cor. "As two thoughtless boys were trying to see which could lift the greatest weight with his jaws, one of them had several of his firm-set teeth wrenched from their sockets."—Newspaper cor. "Every body nowadays publishes memoirs; every body has recollections which he thinks worthy of recording."—Duchess D'Ab. cor. "Every body trembled, for himself, or for his friends."—Goldsmith cor.

   "A steed comes at morning: no rider is there;
    But his bridle is red with the sign of despair."—Campbell cor.

UNDER NOTE I.—PRONOUNS WRONG—OR NEEDLESS.

"Charles loves to study; but John, alas! is very idle."—Merchant cor. "Or what man is there of you, who, if his son ask bread, will give him a stone?"—Bible cor. "Who, in stead of going about doing good, are perpetually intent upon doing mischief."—Tillotson cor. "Whom ye delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pontius Pilate."—Bible cor. "Whom, when they had washed her, they laid in an upper chamber."—Id. "Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God."—Id. "Whatever a man conceives clearly, he may, if he will be at the trouble, put into distinct propositions, and express clearly to others."—See Blair's Rhet., p. 93. "But the painter, being entirely confined to that part of time which he has chosen, cannot exhibit various stages of the same action."—Murray's Gram., i, 195. "What he subjoins, is without any proof at all."—Barclay cor. "George Fox's Testimony concerning Robert Barclay."—Title cor. "According to the advice of the author of the Postcript [sic—KTH]."—Barclay cor. "These things seem as ugly to the eye of their meditations, as those Ethiopians that were pictured on Nemesis's pitcher."—Bacon cor. "Moreover, there is always a twofold condition propounded with the Sphynx's enigmas."—Id. "Whoever believeth not therein, shall perish."—Koran cor. "When, at Sestius's entreaty, I had been at his house."—W. Walker cor.

   "There high on Sipylus's shaggy brow,
    She stands, her own sad monument of wo."—Pope cor.

UNDER NOTE II.—CHANGE OF NUMBER.

"So will I send upon you famine, and evil beasts, and they shall bereave you."—Bible cor. "Why do you plead so much for it? why do you preach it up?" Or: "Why do ye plead so much for it? why do ye preach it up?"—Barclay cor. "Since thou hast decreed that I shall bear man, thy darling."—Edward's Gram. cor. "You have my book, and I have yours; i.e., your book." Or thus: "Thou hast my book, and I have thine; i.e., thy book."—Chandler cor. "Neither art thou such a one as to be ignorant of what thou art."—Bullions cor. "Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord, and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon thee."—Bible cor. "The Almighty, unwilling to cut thee off in the fullness of iniquity, has sent me to give thee warning."—Ld. Kames cor. "Wast thou born only for pleasure? wast thou never to do any thing?"—Collier cor. "Thou shalt be required to go to God, to die, and to give up thy account."—Barnes cor. "And canst thou expect to behold the resplendent glow of the Creator? would not such a sight annihilate thee?"—Milton cor. "If the prophet had commanded thee to do some great thing, wouldst thou have refused?"—C. S. Journal cor. "Art thou a penitent? evince thy sincerity, by bringing forth fruits meet for repentance."—Vade-Mecum cor. "I will call thee my dear son: I remember all thy tenderness."—C. Tales cor. "So do thou, my son: open thy ears, and thy eyes."—Wright cor. "I promise you, this was enough to discourage you."—Bunyan cor. "Ere you remark an other's sin, Bid your own conscience look within."—Gay cor. "Permit that I share in thy wo, The privilege canst thou refuse?"—Perfect cor. "Ah! Strephon, how canst thou despise Her who, without thy pity, dies?"—Swift cor.

   "Thy verses, friend, are Kidderminster stuff;
    And I must own, thou'st measured out enough."—Shenst. cor.

    "This day, dear Bee, is thy nativity;
    Had Fate a luckier one, she'd give it thee."—Swift cor.

UNDER NOTE III.—WHO AND WHICH.

"Exactly like so many puppets, which are moved by wires."—Blair cor. "They are my servants, whom I brought forth[535] out of the land of Egypt."—Leviticus, xxv, 55. "Behold, I and the children whom God hath given me."—See Isaiah, viii, 18. "And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe."—Isaiah, xxxvii, 2. "In a short time the streets were cleared of the corpses which filled them."—M'Ilvaine cor. "They are not of those who teach things that they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake."—Barclay cor. "As a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep; which, if he go through, both treadeth down and teareth in pieces."—Bible cor. "Frequented by every fowl which nature has taught to dip the wing in water."—Johnson cor. "He had two sons, one of whom was adopted by the family of Maximus."—Lempriere cor. "And the ants, which are collected by the smell, are burned with fire."—The Friend cor. "They being the agents to whom this thing was trusted."—Nixon cor. "A packhorse which is driven constantly one way and the other, to and from market."—Locke cor. "By instructing children, whose affection will be increased."—Nixon cor. "He had a comely young woman, who travelled with him."—Hutchinson cor. "A butterfly, who thought himself an accomplished traveller, happened to light upon a beehive."—Inst., p. 267. "It is an enormous elephant of stone, which disgorges from his uplifted trunk a vast but graceful shower."—Ware cor. "He was met by a dolphin, which sometimes swam before him, and sometimes behind him."—Edward's Gram. cor.

   "That Cæsar's horse, which, as fame goes,
    Had corns upon his feet and toes,
    Was not by half so tender-hoof'd,
    Nor trod upon the ground so soft."—Butler cor.

UNDER NOTE IV.—NOUNS OF MULTITUDE.

"He instructed and fed the crowds that surrounded him."—Murray's Key. "The court, which gives currency to manners, ought to be exemplary." p. 187. "Nor does he describe classes of sinners that do not exist."—Mag. cor. "Because the nations among which they took their rise, were not savage."—Murray cor. "Among nations that are in the first and rude periods of society."—Blair cor. "The martial spirit of those nations among which the feudal government prevailed."—Id. "France, which was in alliance with Sweden."—Priestley's Gram., p. 97. "That faction, in England, which most powerfully opposed his arbitrary pretensions."—Ib. "We may say, 'the crowd which was going up the street.'"—Cobbett's E. Gram., ¶ 204. "Such members of the Convention which formed this Lyceum, as have subscribed this Constitution."—N. Y. Lyceum cor.

UNDER NOTE V.—CONFUSION OF SENSES.

"The name of the possessor shall take a particular form to show its case."—Kirkham cor. "Of which reasons, the principal one is, that no noun, properly so called, implies the presence of the thing named."—Harris cor. "Boston is a proper noun, which distinguishes the city of Boston from other cities."—Sanborn cor. "The word CONJUNCTION means union, or the act of joining together. Conjunctions are used to join or connect either words or sentences."—Id. "The word INTERJECTION means the act of throwing between. Interjections are interspersed among other words, to express strong or sudden emotion."—Id. "Indeed is composed of in and deed. The words may better be written separately, as they formerly were."—Cardell cor. "Alexander, on the contrary, is a particular name; and is employed to distinguish an individual only."—Jamieson cor. "As an indication that nature itself had changed its course." Or:—"that Nature herself had changed her course."—History cor. "Of removing from the United States and their territories the free people of colour."—Jenifer cor. "So that gh may be said not to have its proper sound." Or thus: "So that the letters, g and h, may be said not to have their proper sounds."—Webster cor. "Are we to welcome the loathsome harlot, and introduce her to our children?"—Maturin cor. "The first question is this: 'Is reputable, national, and present use, which, for brevity's sake, I shall hereafter simply denominate good use, always uniform, [i. e., undivided, and unequivocal,] in its decisions?"—Campbell cor. "In personifications, Time is always masculine, on account of his mighty efficacy; Virtue, feminine, by reason of her beauty and loveliness."—Murray, Blair, et al. cor. "When you speak to a person or thing, the noun or pronoun is in the second person."—Bartlett cor. "You now know the noun; for noun means name."—Id. "T. What do you see? P. A book. T. Spell book."—R. W. Green cor. "T. What do you see now? P. Two books. T. Spell books."—Id. "If the United States lose their rights as a nation."—Liberator cor. "When a person or thing is addressed or spoken to, the noun or pronoun is in the second person."—Frost cor. "When a person or thing is merely spoken of, the noun or pronoun is in the third person."—Id. "The word OX also, taking the same plural termination, makes OXEN."—Bucke cor.

   "Hail, happy States! yours is the blissful seat
    Where nature's gifts and art's improvements meet."—Everett cor.

UNDER NOTE VI.—THE RELATIVE THAT.

(1.) "This is the most useful art that men possess."—L. Murray cor. "The earliest accounts that history gives us, concerning all nations, bear testimony to these facts."—Blair et al. cor. "Mr. Addison was the first that attempted a regular inquiry into the pleasures of taste."—Blair cor. "One of the first that introduced it, was Montesquieu."—Murray cor. "Massillon is perhaps the most eloquent sermonizer that modern times have produced."—Blair cor. "The greatest barber that ever lived, is our guiding star and prototype."—Hart cor.

(2.) "When prepositions are subjoined to nouns, they are generally the same that are subjoined to the verbs from which the nouns are derived."—Murray's Gram., p. 200. Better thus: "The prepositions which are subjoined to nouns, are generally the same that," &c.—Priestley cor. "The same proportions that are agreeable in a model, are not agreeable in a large building."—Kames cor. "The same ornaments that we admire in a private apartment, are unseemly in a temple."—Murray cor. "The same that John saw also in the sun."—Milton cor.

(3.) "Who can ever be easy, that is reproached with his own ill conduct?"—T. à Kempis cor. "Who is she that comes clothed in a robe of green?"—Inst., p. 267. "Who that has either sense or civility, does not perceive the vileness of profanity?"—G. Brown.

(4.) "The second person denotes the person or thing that is spoken to."—Kirkham cor. "The third person denotes the person or thing that is spoken of."—Id. "A passive verb denotes action received, or endured by the person or thing that is signified by its nominative."—Id. "The princes and states that had neglected or favoured the growth of this power."—Bolingbroke cor. "The nominative expresses the name of the person or thing that acts, or that is the subject of discourse."—Hiley cor.

(5.) "Authors that deal in long sentences, are very apt to be faulty."—Blair cor. "Writers that deal," &c.—Murray cor. "The neuter gender denotes objects that are neither male nor female."—Merchant cor. "The neuter gender denotes things that have no sex."—Kirkham cor. "Nouns that denote objects neither male nor female, are of the neuter gender."—Wells's Gram. of late, p. 55. Better thus: "Those nouns which denote objects that are neither male nor female, are of the neuter gender."—Wells cor. "Objects and ideas that have been long familiar, make too faint an impression to give an agreeable exercise to our faculties."—Blair cor. "Cases that custom has left dubious, are certainly within the grammarian's province."—L. Murray cor. "Substantives that end in ery, signify action or habit."—Id. "After all that can be done to render the definitions and rules of grammar accurate."—Id. "Possibly, all that I have said, is known and taught."—A. B. Johnson cor.

(6.) "It is a strong and manly