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

   "In making this a crime, we overthrow
    The laws of nations and of nature too."—Dryden cor.

"The mixing of them makes a miserable jumble of truth and fiction."—Kames cor. "The same objection lies against the employing of statues."—Id. "More efficacious than the venting of opulence upon the fine arts."—Id. "It is the giving of different names to the same object."—Id. "When we have in view the erecting of a column."—Id. "The straining of an elevated subject beyond due bounds, is a vice not so frequent."—Id. "The cutting of evergreens in the shape of animals, is very ancient."—Id. "The keeping of juries without meat, drink, or fire, can be accounted for only on the same idea."—Webster cor. "The writing of the verbs at length on his slate, will be a very useful exercise."—Beck cor. "The avoiding of them is not an object of any moment."—Sheridan cor. "Comparison is the increasing or decreasing of the signification of a word by degrees."—Brit. Gram. cor. "Comparison is the increasing or decreasing of the quality by degrees."—Buchanan cor. "The placing of a circumstance before the word with which it is connected is the easiest of all inversion."—Id. "What is emphasis? It is the emitting of a stronger and fuller sound of voice," &c.—Bradley cor. "Besides, the varying of the terms will render the use of them more familiar."—A. Mur. cor. "And yet the confining of themselves to this true principle, has misled them."—Tooke cor. "What is here commanded, is merely the relieving of his misery."—Wayland cor. "The accumulating of too great a quantity of knowledge at random, overloads the mind in stead of adorning it."—Formey cor. "For the compassing of his point."—Rollin cor. "To the introducing of such an inverted order of things."—Bp. Butler cor. "Which require only the doing of an external action."—Id. "The imprisoning of my body is to satisfy your wills."—Fox cor. "Who oppose the conferring of such extensive command on one person."—Duncan cor. "Luxury contributed not a little to the enervating of their forces."—Sale cor. "The keeping of one day of the week for a sabbath."—Barclay cor. "The doing of a thing is contrary to the forbearing of it."—Id. "The doubling of the Sigma is, however, sometimes regular."—Knight cor. "The inserting of the common aspirate too, is improper."—Id. "But in Spenser's time the pronouncing of the ed [as a separate syllable,] seems already to have been something of an archaism."—Phil. Mu. cor. "And to the reconciling of the effect of their verses on the eye."—Id. "When it was not in their power to hinder the taking of the whole."—Dr. Brown cor. "He had indeed given the orders himself for the shutting of the gates."—Id. "So his whole life was a doing of the will of the Father."—Penington cor. "It signifies the suffering or receiving of the action expressed."—Priestley cor. "The pretended crime therefore was the declaring of himself to be the Son of God."—West cor. "Parsing is the resolving of a sentence into its different parts of speech."—Beck cor.

"There is no expecting of the admiration of beholders."—Baxter cor. "There is no hiding of you in the house."—Shak. cor. "For the better regulating of government in the province of Massachusetts."—Brit. Parl. cor. "The precise marking of the shadowy boundaries of a complex government."—Adams cor. "This state of discipline requires the voluntary foregoing of many things which we desire, and the setting of ourselves to what we have no inclination to."—Bp. Butler cor. "This amounts to an active setting of themselves against religion."—Id. "Which engaged our ancient friends to the orderly establishing of our Christian discipline."—Friends cor. "Some men are so unjust that there is no securing of our own property or life, but by opposing force to force."—Rev. John Brown cor. "An Act for the better securing of the Rights and Liberties of the Subject."—Geo. III cor. "Miraculous curing of the sick is discontinued."—Barclay cor. "It would have been no transgressing of the apostle's rule."—Id. "As far as consistent with the proper conducting of the business of the House."—Elmore cor. "Because he would have no quarrelling at the just condemning of them at that day." Or:—"at their just condemnation at that day."—Bunyan cor. "That transferring of this natural manner will insure propriety."—Rush cor. "If a man were porter of hell-gate, he should have old [i.e., frequent] turning of the key."—Singer's Shakspeare cor.

"So very simple a thing as a man's wounding of himself."—Dr. Blair cor., and Murray. "Or with that man's avowing of his designs."—Blair, Mur., et al. cor. "On his putting of the question."—Adams cor. "The importance of teachers' requiring of their pupils to read each section many times over."—Kirkham cor. "Politeness is a kind of forgetting of one's self, in order to be agreeable to others."—Ramsay cor. "Much, therefore, of the merit and the agreeableness of epistolary writing, will depend on its introducing of us into some acquaintance with the writer."—Blair and Mack cor. "Richard's restoration to respectability depends on his paying of his debts."—O. B. Peirce cor. "Their supplying of ellipses where none ever existed; their parsing of the words of sentences already full and perfect, as though depending on words understood."—Id. "Her veiling of herself, and shedding of tears, &c., her upbraiding of Paris for his cowardice," &c.—Blair cor. "A preposition may be made known by its admitting of a personal pronoun after it, in the objective case."—Murray et al. cor. "But this forms no just objection to its denoting of time."—L. Mur. cor. "Of men's violating or disregarding of the relations in which God has here placed them."—Bp. Butler cor. "Success, indeed, no more decides for the right, than a man's killing of his antagonist in a duel."—Campbell cor. "His reminding of them."—Kirkham cor. "This mistake was corrected by his preceptor's causing of him to plant some beans."—Id. "Their neglecting of this was ruinous."—Frost cor. "That he was serious, appears from his distinguishing of the others as 'finite.'"—Felch cor. "His hearers are not at all sensible of his doing of it." Or:—"that he does it."—Sheridan cor.

"An allegory is a fictitious story the meaning of which is figurative, not literal; a double meaning, or dilogy, is the saying of only one thing, when we have two in view."—Phil. Mu. cor. "A verb may generally be distinguished by the sense which it makes with any of the personal pronouns, or with the word TO, before it."—Murray et al. cor. "A noun may in general be distinguished by the article which comes before it, or by the sense which it makes of itself."—Merchant et al. cor. "An adjective may usually be known by the sense which it makes with the word thing; as, a good thing, a bad thing."—Iid. "It is seen to be in the objective case, because it denotes the object affected by the act of leaving."—O. B. Peirce cor. "It is seen to be in the possessive case, because it denotes the possessor of something."—Id. "The noun MAN is caused by the adjective WHATEVER to seem like a twofold nominative, as if it denoted, of itself, one person as the subject of the two remarks."—Id. "WHEN, as used in the last line, is a connective, because it joins that line to the other part of the sentence."—Id. "Because they denote reciprocation."—Id. "To allow them to make use of that liberty;"—"To allow them to use that liberty;"—or, "To allow them that liberty."—Sale cor. "The worst effect of it is, that it fixes on your mind a habit of indecision."—Todd cor. "And you groan the more deeply, as you reflect that you have not power to shake it off."—Id. "I know of nothing that can justify the student in having recourse to a Latin translation of a Greek writer."—Coleridge cor. "Humour is the conceit of making others act or talk absurdly."—Hazlitt cor. "There are remarkable instances in which they do not affect each other."—Bp. Butler cor. "That Cæsar was left out of the commission, was not from any slight."—Life cor. "Of the thankful reception of this toleration, I shall say no more," Or: "Of the propriety of receiving this toleration thankfully, I shall say no more."—Dryden cor. "Henrietta was delighted with Julia's skill in working lace."—O. B. Peirce cor. "And it is because each of them represents two different words, that the confusion has arisen."—Booth cor. "Æschylus died of a fracture of his skull, caused by an eagle's dropping of a tortoise on his head." Or:—"caused by a tortoise which an eagle let fall on his head."—Biog. Dict. cor. "He doubted whether they had it."—Felch cor. "To make ourselves clearly understood, is the chief end of speech."—Sheridan cor. "One cannot discover in their countenances any signs which are the natural concomitants of the feelings of the heart."—Id. "Nothing can be more common or less proper, than to speak of a river as emptying itself."—Campbell cor. "Our non-use of the former expression, is owing to this."—Bullions cor.

"To this generally succeeds the division, or the laying-down of the method of the discourse."—Dr. Blair cor. "To the pulling-down of strong holds."—Bible cor. "Can a mere buckling-on of a military weapon infuse courage?"—Dr. Brown cor. "Expensive and luxurious living destroys health."—L. Murray cor. "By frugal and temperate living, health is preserved." Or: "By living frugally and temperately, we preserve our health."—Id. "By the doing-away of the necessity."—The Friend cor. "He recommended to them, however, the immediate calling of—(or, immediately to call—) the whole community to the church."—Gregory cor. "The separation of large numbers in this manner, certainly facilitates the right reading of them."—Churchill cor. "From their mere admitting of a twofold grammatical construction."—Phil. Mu. cor. "His grave lecturing of his friend about it."—Id. "For the blotting-out of sin."—Gurney cor. "From the not-using of water."— Barclay cor. "By the gentle dropping-in of a pebble."—Sheridan cor. "To the carrying-on of a great part of that general course of nature."—Bp. Butler cor. "Then the not-interposing is so far from being a ground of complaint."—Id. "The bare omission, (or rather, the not-employing,) of what is used."—Campbell and Jamieson cor. "The bringing-together of incongruous adverbs is a very common fault."— Churchill cor. "This is a presumptive proof that it does not proceed from them."—Bp. Butler cor. "It represents him in a character to which any injustice is peculiarly unsuitable."—Campbell cor. "They will aim at something higher than a mere dealing-out of harmonious sounds."— Kirkham cor. "This is intelligible and sufficient; and any further account of the matter seems beyond the reach of our faculties."—Bp. Butler cor. "Apostrophe is a turning-off from the regular course of the subject."—Mur. et al. cor. "Even Isabella was finally prevailed upon to assent to the sending-out of a commission to investigate his conduct."—Life of Columbus cor. "For the turning-away of the simple shall slay them."—Bible cor.

   "Thick fingers always should command
    Without extension of the hand."—King cor.

"Is there any Scripture which speaks of the light as being inward?"—Barclay cor. "For I believe not positiveness therein essential to salvation."—Id. "Our inability to act a uniformly right part without some thought and care."—Bp. Butler cor. "On the supposition that it is reconcilable with the constitution of nature."—Id. "On the ground that it is not discoverable by reason or experience."—Id. "On the ground that they are unlike the known course of nature."—Id. "Our power to discern reasons for them, gives a positive credibility to the history of them."—Id. "From its lack of universality."—Id. "That they may be turned into passive participles in dus, is no decisive argument to prove them passive."—Grant cor. "With the implied idea that St. Paul was then absent from the Corinthians."—Kirkham cor. "Because it becomes gradually weaker, until it finally dies away into silence."—Id. "Not without the author's full knowledge."—Id. "Wit out of season is one sort of folly."—Sheffield cor. "Its general susceptibility of a much stronger evidence."— Campbell cor. "At least, that they are such, rarely enhances our opinion, either of their abilities or of their virtues."—Id. "Which were the ground of our unity."—Barclay cor. "But they may be distinguished from it by their intransitiveness."—L. Murray cor. "To distinguish the higher degree of our persuasion of a thing's possibility."—Churchill cor.

"That he was idle, and dishonest too, Was that which caused his utter overthrow."—Tobitt cor.

"When it denotes subjection to the exertion of an other."—Booth cor. "In the passive sense, it signifies a subjection to the influence of the action."—Felch cor. "To be abandoned by our friends, is very deplorable."—Goldsmith cor. "Without waiting to be attacked by the Macedonians."—Id. "In progress of time, words