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

he assume the name of a popular magistrate?"—Duncan cor. "There were no damages as in England, and so Scott lost his wager."—Byron cor. "In fact, there exist such resemblances."—Kames cor. "To him give all the prophets witness."—Acts, x, 43. "That there were so many witnesses and actors."—Addison cor. "How do this man's definitions stand affected?"—Collier cor. "Whence come all the powers and prerogatives of rational beings?"—Id. "Nor do the scriptures cited by thee prove thy intent."—Barclay cor. "Nor does the scripture cited by thee prove the contrary."—Id. "Why then citest thou a scripture which is so plain and clear for it?"—Id. "But what say the Scriptures as to respect of persons among Christians?"—Id. "But in the mind of man, while in the savage state, there seem to be hardly any ideas but what enter by the senses;"—Robertson cor. "What sounds has each of the vowels?"—Griscom cor. "Out of this have grown up aristocracies, monarchies, despotisms, tyrannies."—Brownson cor. "And there were taken up, of fragments that remained to them, twelve baskets."—Bible cor. "There seem to be but two general classes."—Day cor. "Hence arise the six forms of expressing time."—Id. "There seem to be no other words required."—Chandler cor. "If there are two, the second increment is the syllable next to the last."—Bullions cor. "Hence arise the following advantages."—Id. "There are no data by which it can be estimated."—Calhoun cor. "To this class, belongs the Chinese language, in which we have nothing but naked primitives."—Fowler cor. [[Fist] "Nothing but naked roots" is faulty; because no word is a root, except some derivative spring from it."—G. B.] "There were several other grotesque figures that presented themselves."—Spect. cor. "In these consists that sovereign good which ancient sages so much extol."—Percival cor. "Here come those I have done good to against my will."—Shak. cor. "Where there are more than one auxiliary." Or: "Where there are more auxiliaries than one."—O. B. Peirce cor.

   "On me to cast those eyes where shines nobility."
        —Sidney cor.

    "Here are half-pence in plenty, for one you'll have twenty."
        —Swift cor.

    "Ah, Jockey, ill advisest thou. I wis,
    To think of songs at such a time as this."
        —Churchill cor.

UNDER NOTE I.—THE RELATIVE AND VERB.

"Thou, who lovest us, wilt protect us still."—A. Murray cor. "To use that endearing language, 'Our Father, who art in heaven.'"—Bates cor. "Resembling the passions that produce these actions."—Kames cor. "Except dwarf, grief, hoof, muff, &c., which take s to make the plural."—Ash cor. "As the cattle that go before me, and the children, be able to endure."—Gen. cor. "Where is the man who dares affirm that such an action is mad?"—Dr. Pratt cor. "The ninth book of Livy affords one of the most beautiful exemplifications of historical painting, that are anywhere to be met with."—Dr. Blair cor. "In some studies, too, that relate to taste and fine writing, which are our object," &c.—Id. "Of those affecting situations which make man's heart feel for man."—Id. "We see very plainly, that it is neither Osmyn nor Jane Shore that speaks."—Id. "It should assume that briskness and ease which are suited to the freedom of dialogue."—Id. "Yet they grant, that none ought to be admitted into the ministry, but such as are truly pious."—Barclay cor. "This letter is one of the best that have been written about Lord Byron."—Hunt cor. "Thus, besides what were sunk, the Athenians took above two hundred ships."—Goldsmith cor. "To have made and declared such orders as were necessary."—Hutchinson cor. "The idea of such a collection of men as makes an army."—Locke cor. "I'm not the first that has been wretched."—Southern cor. "And the faint sparks of it which are in the angels, are concealed from our view."—Calvin cor. "The subjects are of such a nature, as allows room (or, as to allow room) for much diversity of taste and sentiment."—Dr. Blair cor. "It is in order to propose examples of such perfection, as is not to be found in the real examples of society."—Formey cor. "I do not believe that he would amuse himself with such fooleries as have been attributed to him."—Id. "That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed."—Milton, P. L., B. i, l. 8. "With respect to the vehemence and warmth which are allowed in popular eloquence."—Dr. Blair cor. "Ambition is one of those passions that are never to be satisfied."—Home cor. "Thou wast he that led out and brought in Israel."—Bible cor. "Art thou the man of God, that came from Judah?"—Id.

   "How beauty is excell'd by manly grace
    And wisdom, which alone are truly fair."—Milton cor.

    "What art thou, speak, that on designs unknown,
    While others sleep, thus roamst the camp alone?"—Pope cor.

UNDER NOTE II.—NOMINATIVE WITH ADJUNCTS.

"The literal sense of the words is, that the action had been done."—Dr. Murray cor. "The rapidity of his movements was beyond example."—Wells cor. "Murray's Grammar, together with his Exercises and Key, has nearly superseded every thing else of the kind."—Murray's Rec. cor. "The mechanism of clocks and watches was totally unknown."—Hume cor. "The it, together with the verb to be, expresses a state of being."—Cobbett cor. "Hence it is, that the profuse variety of objects in some natural landscapes, occasions neither confusion nor fatigue."—Kames cor. "Such a clatter of sounds indicates rage and ferocity."—Gardiner cor. "One of the fields makes threescore square yards, and the other, only fifty-five."—Duncan cor. "The happy effects of this fable are worth attending to."—Bailey cor. "Yet the glorious serenity of its parting rays, still lingers with us."—Gould cor. "Enough of its form and force is retained to render them uneasy."—Maturin cor. "The works of nature, in this respect, are extremely regular."—Pratt cor. "No small addition of exotic and foreign words and phrases, has been made by commerce."—Bicknell cor. "The dialect of some nouns is noticed in the notes."—Milnes cor. "It has been said, that a discovery of the full resources of the arts, affords the means of debasement, or of perversion."—Rush cor. "By which means, the order of the words is disturbed."—Holmes cor. "The two-fold influence of these and the others, requires the verb to be in the plural form."—Peirce cor. "And each of these affords employment."—Percival cor. "The pronunciation of the vowels is best explained under the rules relative to the consonants."—Coar cor. "The judicial power of these courts extends to all cases in law and equity."—Hall and Baker cor. "One of you has stolen my money."—Humorist cor. "Such redundancy of epithets, in stead of pleasing, produces satiety and disgust."—Kames cor. "It has been alleged, that a compliance with the rules of Rhetoric, tends to cramp the mind."—Hiley cor. "Each of these is presented to us in different relations."—Hendrick cor. "The past tense of these verbs, (should, would, might, could,) is very indefinite with respect to time."—Bullions cor. "The power of the words which are said to govern this mood, is distinctly understood."—Chandler cor.

   "And now, at length, the fated term of years
    The world's desire hath brought, and lo! the God appears."
        —Lowth cor.

    "Variety of numbers still belongs
    To the soft melody of odes, or songs."
        —Brightland cor.

UNDER NOTE III.—COMPOSITE OR CONVERTED SUBJECTS.

"Many are the works of human industry, which to begin and finish, is hardly granted to the same man."—Johnson cor. "To lay down rules for these, is as inefficacious."—Pratt cor. "To profess regard and act injuriously, discovers a base mind."—L. Murray et al. cor. "To magnify to the height of wonder things great, new, and admirable, extremely pleases the mind of man."—Fisher cor. "In this passage, 'according as' is used in a manner which is very common."—Webster cor. "A CAUSE DE, is called a preposition; A CAUSE QUE, a conjunction."—Webster cor. "To these it is given to speak in the name of the Lord."—The Friend cor. "While wheat has no plural, oats has seldom any singular."—Cobbett cor. "He cannot assert that ll (i.e., double Ell) is inserted in fullness to denote the sound of u"—Cobb cor. "Ch, in Latin, has the power of k."—Gould cor. "Ti, before a vowel, and unaccented, has the sound of si or ci."—Id. "In words derived from French, as chagrin, chicanery, and chaise, ch is sounded like sh."—Bucke cor. "But, in the words schism, schismatic, &c., the ch is silent."—Id. "Ph, at the beginning of words, is always sounded like f."—Bucke cor. "Ph has the sound of f as in philosophy."—Webster cor. "Sh has one sound only, as in shall."—Id. "Th has two sounds."—Id. "Sc, before a, o, u, or r, has the sound of sk."—Id. "Aw has the sound of a in hall."—Bolles cor. "Ew sounds like u"—Id. "Ow, when both vowels are sounded, has the power of ou in thou."—Id. "Ui, when both vowels are pronounced in one syllable, sounds like wi short, as in languid."—Id.

   "Ui three other sounds at least expresses,
    As who hears GUILE, REBUILD, and BRUISE, confesses."
        —Brightland cor.

UNDER NOTE IV.—EACH, ONE, EITHER, AND NEITHER.

"When each of the letters which compose this word, has been learned."—Dr. Weeks cor. "As neither of us denies that both Homer and Virgil have great beauties."—Dr. Blair cor. "Yet neither of them is remarkable for precision."—Id. "How far each of the three great epic poets has distinguished himself."—Id. "Each of these produces a separate, agreeable sensation."—Id. "On the Lord's day, every one of us Christians keeps the sabbath."—Tr. of Iren. cor. "And each of them bears the image of purity and holiness."—Hope of Is. cor. "Was either of these meetings ever acknowledged or recognized?"—Foster cor. "Whilst neither of these letters exists in the Eugubian inscription."—Knight cor. "And neither of them is properly termed indefinite."—Dr. Wilson cor. "As likewise of the several subjects, which have in effect their several verbs:" or,—"each of which has in effect its own verb."—Lowth cor. "Sometimes, when the word ends in s, neither of the signs is used."—A. Mur. cor. "And as neither of these manners offends the ear."—J. Walker cor. "Neither of these two tenses is confined to this signification only."—R. Johnson cor. "But neither of these circumstances is intended here."—Tooke cor. "So that all are indebted to each, and each is dependent upon all."—Bible Rep. cor. "And yet neither of them expresses any more action in this case, than it did in the other."—Bullions cor. "Each of these expressions denotes action."—Hallock cor. "Neither of these moods seems to be defined by distinct boundaries."—Butler cor. "Neither of these solutions is correct."—Bullions cor. "Neither bears any sign of case at all."—Fowler cor.

"Each in his turn, like Banquo's monarchs, stalks." Or:— "All in their turn, like Banquo's monarchs, stalk."—Byron cor.

"And tell what each doth by the other lose."—Shak. cor.

UNDER NOTE V.—VERB BETWEEN TWO NOMINATIVES.

"The quarrels of lovers are but a renewal of love."—Adam et al. cor. "Two dots, one placed above the other, are called a Sheva."—Wilson cor. "A few centuries more or less are a matter of small consequence."—Id. "Pictures were the first step towards the art of writing; hieroglyphics were the second step."—Parker cor. "The comeliness of youth is modesty and frankness; of age, condescension and dignity." Or, much better: "The great ornaments of youth are," &c.—Murray cor. "Merit and good works are the end of man's motion."—Bacon cor. "Divers philosophers hold, that the lips are parcel of the mind."—Shak. cor. "The clothing of the natives was the skins of wild beasts." Or thus: "The clothes of the natives were skins of wild beasts."—Hist. cor. "Prepossessions in favour of our native town, are not a matter of surprise."—Webster cor. "Two shillings and sixpence are half a crown, but not a half crown."—Priestley and Bicknell cor. "Two vowels, pronounced by a single impulse of the voice, and uniting in one sound, are called a diphthong."—Cooper cor. "Two or more sentences united together are called a Compound Sentence."—Day cor. "Two or more words rightly put together, but not completing an entire proposition, are called a Phrase."—Id. "But the common number of times is five." Or, to state the matter truly: "But the common number of tenses is six."—Brit. Gram. cor. "Technical terms, injudiciously introduced, are an other source of darkness in composition."—Jamieson cor. "The United States are the great middle division of North America."—Morse cor. "A great cause of the low state of industry, was the restraints put upon it."—Priestley's Gram., p. 199; Churchill's, 414. "Here two tall ships become the victor's prey."—Rowe cor. "The expenses incident to an outfit are surely no object."—The Friend cor.

"Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, Were all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep."—Milt. cor.

UNDER NOTE VI.—CHANGE OF THE NOMINATIVE.

"Much care has been taken, to explain all the kinds of words."—Inf. S. Gr. cor. "Not fewer [years] than three years, are spent in attaining this faculty." Or, perhaps better: "Not less than three years' time, is spent in attaining this faculty." Or thus: "Not less time than three years, is spent," &c.—Gardiner cor. "Where this night are met in state Many friends