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

is a trifling inquiry."—Blair cor. "Year after year steals something from us, till the decaying fabric totters of itself, and at length crumbles into dust."—Murray cor. "If spiritual pride has not entirely vanquished humility."—West cor. "Whether he has gored a son, or has gored a daughter."—Bible cor. "It is doubtful whether the object introduced by way of simile, relates to what goes before or to what follows."—Kames cor.

   "And bridle in thy headlong wave,
    Till thou our summons answer'd hast." Or:—
    "And bridle in thy headlong wave,
    Till thou hast granted what we crave."—Milt. cor.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XV AND ITS NOTE. UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—THE IDEA OF PLURALITY.

"The gentry are punctilious in their etiquette."—G. B. "In France, the peasantry go barefoot, and the middle sort make use of wooden shoes."—Harvey cor. "The people rejoice in that which should cause sorrow."—Murray varied. "My people are foolish, they have not known me."—Bible and Lowth cor. "For the people speak, but do not write."—Phil. Mu. cor. "So that all the people that were in the camp, trembled."—Bible cor. "No company like to confess that they are ignorant."—Todd cor. "Far the greater part of their captives were anciently sacrificed."—Robertson cor. "More than one half of them were cut off before the return of spring."—Id. "The other class, termed Figures of Thought, suppose the words to be used in their proper and literal meaning."—Blair and Mur. cor. "A multitude of words in their dialect approach to the Teutonic form, and therefore afford excellent assistance."—Dr. Murray cor. "A great majority of our authors are defective in manner."—J. Brown cor. "The greater part of these new-coined words have been rejected."—Tooke cor. "The greater part of the words it contains, are subject to certain modifications or inflections."—The Friend cor. "While all our youth prefer her to the rest."—Waller cor. "Mankind are appointed to live in a future state."—Bp. Butler cor. "The greater part of human kind speak and act wholly by imitation."—Rambler, No. 146. "The greatest part of human gratifications approach so nearly to vice."—Id., No. 160.

   "While still the busy world are treading o'er
    The paths they trod five thousand years before."—Young cor.

UNDER THE NOTE.—THE IDEA OF UNITY.

"In old English, this species of words was numerous."—Dr. Murray cor. "And a series of exercises in false grammar is introduced towards the end."—Frost cor. "And a jury, in conformity with the same idea, was anciently called homagium, the homage, or manhood."—Webster cor. "With respect to the former, there is indeed a plenty of means."—Kames cor. "The number of school districts has increased since the last year."—Throop cor. "The Yearly Meeting has purchased with its funds these publications."—Foster cor. "Has the legislature power to prohibit assemblies?"—Sullivan cor. "So that the whole number of the streets was fifty."—Rollin cor. "The number of inhabitants was not more than four millions."—Smollett cor. "The house of Commons was of small weight."—Hume cor. "The assembly of the wicked hath (or has) inclosed me."—Psal. cor. "Every kind of convenience and comfort is provided."—C. S. Journal cor. "Amidst the great decrease of the inhabitants in Spain, the body of the clergy has suffered no diminution; but it has rather been gradually increasing."—Payne cor. "Small as the number of inhabitants is, yet their poverty is extreme."—Id. "The number of the names was about one hundred and twenty."—Ware and Acts cor.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XVI AND ITS NOTES. UNDER THE RULE ITSELF—THE VERB AFTER JOINT NOMINATIVES.

"So much ability and [so much] merit are seldom found."—Mur. et al. cor. "The etymology and syntax of the language are thus spread before the learner."—Bullions cor. "Dr. Johnson tells us, that, in English poetry, the accent and the quantity of syllables are the same thing."—Adams cor. "Their general scope and tendency, having never been clearly apprehended, are not remembered at all."—L. Murray cor. "The soil and sovereignty were not purchased of the natives."—Knapp cor. "The boldness, freedom, and variety, of our blank verse, are infinitely more favourable to sublimity of style, than [are the constraint and uniformity of] rhyme."—Blair cor. "The vivacity and sensibility of the Greeks seem to have been much greater than ours."—Id. "For sometimes the mood and tense are signified by the verb, sometimes they are signified of the verb by something else."—R. Johnson cor. "The verb and the noun making a complete sense, whereas the participle and the noun do not."—Id. "The growth and decay of passions and emotions, traced through all their mazes, are a subject too extensive for an undertaking like the present."—Kames cor. "The true meaning and etymology of some of his words were lost."—Knight cor. "When the force and direction of personal satire are no longer understood."—Junius cor. "The frame and condition of man admit of no other principle."—Dr. Brown cor. "Some considerable time and care were necessary."—Id. "In consequence of this idea, much ridicule and censure have been thrown upon Milton."—Blair cor. "With rational beings, nature and reason are the same thing."—Collier cor. "And the flax and the barley were smitten."—Bible cor. "The colon and semicolon divide a period; this with, and that without, a connective."—Ware cor. "Consequently, wherever space and time are found, there God must also be."—Newton cor. "As the past tense and perfect participle of LOVE end in ED, it is regular."—Chandler cor. "But the usual arrangement and nomenclature prevent this from being readily seen."—N. Butler cor. "Do and did simply imply opposition or emphasis."—A. Murray cor. "I and an other make the plural WE; thou and an other are equivalent to YE; he, she, or it, and an other, make THEY."—Id. "I and an other or others are the same as WE, the first person plural; thou and an other or others are the same as YE, the second person plural; he, she, or it, and an other or others, are the same as THEY, the third person plural."—Buchanan and Brit. Gram. cor. "God and thou are two, and thou and thy neighbour are two."—Love Conquest cor. "Just as AN and A have arisen out of the numeral ONE."—Fowler cor. "The tone and style of all of them, particularly of the first and the last, are very different."—Blair cor. "Even as the roebuck and the hart are eaten."—Bible cor. "Then I may conclude that two and three do not make five."—Barclay cor. "Which, at sundry times, thou and thy brethren have received from us."—Id. "Two and two are four, and one is five:" i, e., "and one, added to four, is five."—Pope cor. "Humility and knowledge with poor apparel, excel pride and ignorance under costly array."—See Murray's Key, Rule 2d. "A page and a half have been added to the section on composition."—Bullions cor. "Accuracy and expertness in this exercise are an important acquisition."—Id.

   "Woods and groves are of thy dressing,
    Hill and dale proclaim thy blessing." Or thus:—
    "Hill and valley boast thy blessing."—Milton cor.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—THE VERB BEFORE JOINT NOMINATIVES.

"There are a good and a bad, a right and a wrong, in taste, as in other things."—Blair cor. "Whence have arisen much stiffness and affectation."—Id. "To this error, are owing, in a great measure, that intricacy and [that] harshness, in his figurative language, which I before noticed."—Blair and Jamieson cor. "Hence, in his Night Thoughts, there prevail an obscurity and a hardness of style."—Blair cor. See Jamieson's Rhet., p. 167. "There are, however, in that work, much good sense and excellent criticism."—Blair cor. "There are too much low wit and scurrility in Plautus." Or: "There is, in Plautus, too much of low wit and scurrility."—Id. "There are too much reasoning and refinement, too much pomp and studied beauty, in them." Or: "There is too much of reasoning and refinement, too much of pomp and studied beauty, in them."—Id. "Hence arise the structure and characteristic expression of exclamation."—Rush cor. "And such pilots are he and his brethren, according to their own confession."—Barclay cor. "Of whom are Hymeneus and Philetus; who concerning the truth have erred."—Bible cor. "Of whom are Hymeneus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan."—Id. "And so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee."—Id. "Out of the same mouth, proceed blessing and cursing."—Id. "Out of the mouth of the Most High, proceed not evil and good."—Id. "In which there are most plainly a right and a wrong."—Bp. Butler cor. "In this sentence, there are both an actor and an object."—R. C. Smith cor. "In the breastplate, were placed the mysterious Urim and Thummim."—Milman cor. "What are the gender, number, and person, of the pronoun[541] in the first example?"—R. C. Smith cor. "There seem to be a familiarity and a want of dignity in it."—Priestley cor. "It has been often asked, what are Latin and Greek?"—Lit. Journal cor. "For where do beauty and high wit, But in your constellation, meet?"—Sam. Butler cor. "Thence to the land where flow Ganges and Indus."—Milton cor. "On these foundations, seem to rest the midnight riot and dissipation of modern assemblies."—Dr. Brown cor. "But what have disease, deformity, and filth, upon which the thoughts can be allured to dwell?"—Dr. Johnson cor. "How are the gender and number of the relative known?"—Bullions cor.

   "High rides the sun, thick rolls the dust,
    And feebler speed the blow and thrust."—Scott cor.

UNDER NOTE I.—CHANGE THE CONNECTIVE.

"In every language, there prevails a certain structure, or analogy of parts, which is understood to give foundation to the most reputable usage."—Dr. Blair cor. "There runs through his whole manner a stiffness, an affectation, which renders him [Shaftsbury] very unfit to be considered a general model."—Id. "But where declamation for improvement in speech is the sole aim."—Id. "For it is by these, chiefly, that the train of thought, the course of reasoning, the whole progress of the mind, in continued discourse of any kind, is laid open."—Lowth cor. "In all writing and discourse, the proper composition or structure of sentences is of the highest importance."—Dr. Blair cor. "Here the wishful and expectant look of the beggar naturally leads to a vivid conception of that which was the object of his thoughts."—Campbell cor. "Who say, that the outward naming of Christ, with the sign of the cross, puts away devils."—Barclay cor. "By which an oath with a penalty was to be imposed on the members."—Junius cor. "Light, or knowledge, in what manner soever afforded us, is equally from God."—Bp. Butler cor. "For instance, sickness or untimely death is the consequence of intemperance."—Id. "When grief or blood ill-tempered vexeth him." Or: "When grief, with blood ill-tempered, vexes him"—Shak. cor. "Does continuity, or connexion, create sympathy and relation in the parts of the body?"—Collier cor. "His greatest concern, his highest enjoyment, was, to be approved in the sight of his Creator."—L. Murray cor. "Know ye not that there is[542] a prince, a great man, fallen this day in Israel?"—Bible cor. "What is vice, or wickedness? No rarity, you may depend on it."—Collier cor. "There is also the fear or apprehension of it."—Bp. Butler cor. "The apostrophe with s ('s) is an abbreviation for is, the termination of the old English genitive."—Bullions cor. "Ti, ce, OR ci, when followed by a vowel, usually has the sound of sh; as in partial, ocean, special."—Weld cor.

   "Bitter constraint of sad occasion dear
    Compels me to disturb your season due."—Milton cor.

    "Debauch'ry, or excess, though with less noise,
    As great a portion of mankind destroys."—Waller cor.

UNDER NOTE II.—AFFIRMATION WITH NEGATION.

"Wisdom, and not wealth, procures esteem."—Inst., Key, p. 272. "Prudence, and not pomp, is the basis of his fame."—Ib. "Not fear, but labour has overcome him."—Ib. "The decency, and not the abstinence, makes the difference."—Ib. "Not her beauty, but her talents attract attention."—Ib. "It is her talents, and not her beauty, that attract attention."—Ib. "It is her beauty, and not her talents, that attracts attention."—Ib.

   "His belly, not his brains, this impulse gives:
    He'll grow immortal; for he cannot live." Or thus:—
    "His bowels, not his brains, this impulse give:
    He'll grow immortal; for he cannot live."—Young cor.

UNDER NOTE III.—AS WELL AS, BUT, OR SAVE.

"Common sense, as well as piety, tells us these are proper."—Fam. Com. cor. "For without it the critic, as well as the undertaker, ignorant of any rule, has nothing left but to abandon himself to chance."—Kames cor. "And accordingly hatred, as well as love, is extinguished by long absence'."—Id. "But at every turn the richest melody, as well as the sublimest sentiments, is conspicuous."—Id. "But it, as well as the lines immediately subsequent, defies all translation."—Coleridge cor. "But their religion, as well as their customs and manners, was strangely misrepresented."—Bolingbroke, on History, Paris Edition of 1808, p. 93. "But his jealous policy, as well as the fatal antipathy of Fonseca, was conspicuous."—Robertson cor. "When their extent, as well as their value, was unknown."—Id. "The etymology, as well as the syntax, of the more difficult parts of speech, is reserved for his attention at a later period."—Parker and Fox cor. "What I myself owe to him, no one but myself knows."—Wright cor. "None, but thou, O mighty prince! can avert the blow."—Inst., Key, p.