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

"Nought, save the gurglings of the rill, was heard."—G. B.

"All songsters, save the hooting owl, were mute."—G. B.

"Give every word, and every member, its due weight and force."—Murray's Gram., Vol. i, p. 316. "And to one of these belongs every noun, and every third person of every verb."—Dr. Wilson cor. "No law, no restraint, no regulation, is required to keep him within bounds."—Lit. Journal cor. "By that time, every window and every door in the street was full of heads."—Observer cor. "Every system of religion, and every school of philosophy, stands back from this field, and leaves Jesus Christ alone, the solitary example." Or: "All systems of religion, and all schools of philosophy, stand back from this field, and leave Jesus Christ alone, the solitary example."—Abbott cor. "Each day, and each hour, brings its portion of duty."—Inst., Key, p. 272. "And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, resorted unto him."—Bible cor. "Every private Christian, every member of the church, ought to read and peruse the Scriptures, that he may know his faith and belief to be founded upon them."—Barclay cor. "And every mountain and every island was moved out of its place."—Bible cor.

   "No bandit fierce, no tyrant mad with pride,
    No cavern'd hermit rests self-satisfied."—Pope.

UNDER NOTE V.—WITH, OR, &c., FOR AND.

"The sides, A, B, and C, compose the triangle."—Tobitt, Felch, and Ware cor. "The stream, the rock, and the tree, must each of them stand forth, so as to make a figure in the imagination."—Dr. Blair cor. "While this, with euphony, constitutes, finally, the whole."—O. B. Peirce cor. "The bag, with the guineas and dollars in it, was stolen."—Cobbett cor. "Sobriety, with great industry and talent, enables a man to perform great deeds." Or: "Sobriety, industry, and talent, enable a man to perform great deeds."—Id. "The it, together with the verb, expresses a state of being."—Id. "Where Leonidas the Spartan king, and his chosen band, fighting for their country, were cut off to the last man."—Kames cor.. "And Leah also, and her children, came near and bowed themselves."—Bible cor. "The First and the Second will either of them, by itself, coalesce with the Third, but they do not coalesce with each other."—Harris cor. "The whole must centre in the query, whether Tragedy and Comedy are hurtful and dangerous representations."—Formey cor. "Both grief and joy are infectious: the emotions which they raise in the spectator, resemble them perfectly."—Kames cor. "But, in all other words, the q and u are both sounded."—Ensell cor. "Q and u (which are always together) have the sound of kw, as in queen; or of k only, as in opaque." Or, better: "Q has always the sound of k; and the u which follows it, that of w; except in French words, in which the u is silent."—Goodenow cor. "In this selection, the a and i form distinct syllables."—Walker cor. "And a considerable village, with gardens, fields, &c., extends around on each side of the square."—Lib. cor. "Affection and interest guide our notions and behaviour in the affairs of life; imagination and passion affect the sentiments that we entertain in matters of taste."—Jamieson cor. "She heard none of those intimations of her defects, which envy, petulance, and anger, produce among children."—Johnson cor. "The King, Lords, and Commons, constitute an excellent form of government."—Crombie et al. cor. "If we say, 'I am the man who commands you,' the relative clause, with the antecedent man, forms the predicate."—Crombie cor.

   "The spacious firmament on high,
    The blue ethereal vault of sky,
    And spangled heav'ns, a shining frame,
    Their great Original proclaim."—Addison cor.

"There are a reputable and a disreputable practice." Or: "There is a reputable, and there is a disreputable practice."—Adams cor. "This man and this were born in her."—Milton cor. "This man and that were born in her."—Bible cor. "This and that man were born there."—Hendrick cor. "Thus le in l~ego, and le in l=egi, seem to be sounded equally long."—Adam and Gould cor. "A distinct and an accurate articulation form the groundwork of good delivery." Or: "A distinct and accurate articulation forms the groundwork of good delivery."—Kirkham cor. "How are vocal and written language understood?"—Sanders cor. "The good, the wise, and the learned man, are ornaments to human society." Or: "The good, wise, and learned man is an ornament to human society."—Bartlett cor. "In some points, the expression of song and that of speech are identical."—Rush cor. "To every room, there were an open and a secret passage."—Johnson cor. "There are such things as a true and a false taste; and the latter as often directs fashion, as the former."—Webster cor. "There are such things as a prudent and an imprudent institution of life, with regard to our health and our affairs."—Bp. Butler cor. "The lot of the outcasts of Israel, and that of the dispersed of Judah, however different in one respect, have in an other corresponded with wonderful exactness."—Hope of Israel cor. "On these final syllables, the radical and the vanishing movement are performed."—Rush cor. "To be young or old, and to be good, just, or the contrary, are physical or moral events."—Spurzheim cor., and Felch. "The eloquence of George Whitfield and that of John Wesley were very different in character each from the other."—Dr. Sharp cor. "The affinity of m for the series beginning with b, and that of n for the series beginning with t, give occasion for other euphonic changes."—Fowler cor.

   "Pylades' soul, and mad Orestes', were
    In these, if right the Greek philosopher." Or thus:—
    "Pylades' and Orestes' soul did pass
    To these, if we believe Pythagoras." Or, without ellipsis:—
    "Pylades and Orestes' souls did pass
    To these, if we believe Pythagoras."—Cowley corrected.

"To be moderate in our views, and to proceed temperately in the pursuit of them, are the best ways to ensure success."—L. Murray cor. "To be of any species, and to have a right to the name of that species, are both one."—Locke cor. "With whom, to will, and to do, are the same."—Dr. Jamieson cor. "To profess, and to possess, are very different things."—Inst., Key, p. 272. "To do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God, are duties of universal obligation."—Ib. "To be round or square, to be solid or fluid, to be large or small, and to be moved swiftly or slowly, are all equally alien from the nature of thought."—Dr. Johnson. "The resolving of a sentence into its elements, or parts of speech, and [a] stating [of] the accidents which belong to these, are called PARSING." Or, according to Note 1st above: "The resolving of a sentence into its elements, or parts of speech, with [a] stating [of] the accidents which belong to these, is called PARSING."—Bullions cor. "To spin and to weave, to knit and to sew, were once a girl's employments; but now, to dress, and to catch a beau, are all she calls enjoyments."—Kimball cor.

"We do not know in what either reason or instinct consists."—Johnson corrected. "A noun or a pronoun joined with a participle, constitutes a nominative case absolute."—Bicknell cor. "The relative will be of that case which the verb or noun following, or the preposition going before, uses to govern:" or,—"usually governs."—Adam, Gould, et al., cor. "In the different modes of pronunciation, which habit or caprice gives rise to."—Knight cor. "By which he, or his deputy, was authorized to cut down any trees in Whittlebury forest."—Junius cor. "Wherever objects were named, in which sound, noise, or motion, was concerned, the imitation by words was abundantly obvious."—Dr. Blair cor. "The pleasure or pain resulting from a train of perceptions in different circumstances, is a beautiful contrivance of nature for valuable purposes."—Kames cor. "Because their foolish vanity, or their criminal ambition, represents the principles by which they are influenced, as absolutely perfect."—D. Boileau cor. "Hence naturally arises indifference or aversion between the parties."—Dr. Brown cor. "A penitent unbeliever, or an impenitent believer, is a character nowhere to be found."—Tract cor. "Copying whatever is peculiar in the talk of all those whose birth or fortune entitles them to imitation."—Johnson cor. "Where love, hatred, fear, or contempt, is often of decisive influence."—Duncan cor. "A lucky anecdote, or an enlivening tale, relieves the folio page."—D'Israeli cor. "For outward matter or event fashions not the character within." Or: (according to the antique style of this modern book of proverbs:)—"fashioneth not the character within."—Tupper cor. "Yet sometimes we have seen that wine, or chance, has warmed cold brains."—Dryden cor. "Motion is a genus; flight, a species; this flight or that flight is an individual."—Harris cor. "When et, aut, vel, sive, or nec, is repeated before different members of the same sentence."—Adam, Gould, and Grant, cor. "Wisdom or folly governs us."—Fisk cor. "A or an is styled the indefinite article"—Folker cor. "A rusty nail, or a crooked pin, shoots up into a prodigy."—Spect. cor. "Is either the subject or the predicate in the second sentence modified?"—Prof. Fowler cor.

"Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Is lost on hearers that our merits know."—Pope cor.

"Neither he nor she has spoken to him."—Perrin cor. "For want of a process of events, neither knowledge nor elegance preserves the reader from weariness."—Johnson cor. "Neither history nor tradition furnishes such information."—Robertson cor. "Neither the form nor the power of the liquids has varied materially."—Knight cor. "Where neither noise nor motion is concerned."—Blair cor. "Neither Charles nor his brother was qualified to support such a system."—Junius cor. "When, therefore, neither the liveliness of representation, nor the warmth of passion serves, as it were, to cover the trespass, it is not safe to leave the beaten track."—Campbell cor. "In many countries called Christian, neither Christianity, nor its evidence, is fairly laid before men."—Bp. Butler cor. "Neither the intellect nor the heart is capable of being driven."—Abbott cor. "Throughout this hymn, neither Apollo nor Diana is in any way connected with the Sun or Moon."—Coleridge cor. "Of which, neither he, nor this grammar, takes any notice."—R. Johnson cor. "Neither their solicitude nor their foresight extends so far."—Robertson cor. "Neither Gomara, nor Oviedo, nor Herrera, considers Ojeda, or his companion Vespucci, as the first discoverer of the continent of America."—Id. "Neither the general situation of our colonies, nor that particular distress which forced the inhabitants of Boston to take up arms, has been thought worthy of a moment's consideration."—Junius cor.

   "Nor war nor wisdom yields our Jews delight,
    They will not study, and they dare not fight."—Crabbe cor.

    "Nor time nor chance breeds such confusions yet,
    Nor are the mean so rais'd, nor sunk the great."—Rowe cor.

"The definite article, the, designates what particular thing or things are meant."—Merchant cor. "Sometimes a word, or several words, necessary to complete the grammatical construction of a sentence, are not expressed, but are omitted by ellipsis."—Burr cor. "Ellipsis, (better, Ellipses,) or abbreviations, are the wheels of language."—Maunder cor. "The conditions or tenor of none of them appears at this day." Or: "The tenor or conditions of none of them appear at this day."— Hutchinson cor. "Neither men nor money was wanting for the service." Or: "Neither money nor men were wanting for the service."—Id. "Either our own feelings, or the representation of those of others, requires emphatic distinction to be frequent."—Dr. Barber cor. "Either Atoms and Chance, or Nature, is uppermost: now I am for the latter part of the disjunction."—Collier cor. "Their riches or poverty is generally proportioned to their activity or indolence."—Cox cor. "Concerning the other part of him, neither he nor you seem to have entertained an idea."—Horne cor. "Whose earnings or income is so small."—Discip. cor. "Neither riches nor fame renders a man happy."—Day cor. "The references to the pages always point to the first volume, unless the Exercises or Key is mentioned." Or, better:—"unless mention is made of the Exercises or Key." Or: "unless the Exercises or Key be named."—L. Murray cor.

"My lord, you wrong my father; neither is he, nor am I, capable of harbouring a thought against your peace."—Walpole cor. "There was no division of acts; there were no pauses, or intervals, in the performance; but the stage was continually full; occupied either by the actors, or by the chorus."—Dr. Blair cor. "Every word ending in b, p, or f, is of this order, as also are many that end in v."—Dr. Murray cor. "Proud as we are of human reason, nothing can be more absurd than is the general system of human life and human knowledge."— Bolingbroke cor. "By which the body of