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

name of the river on which London stands? Thames."—G. B. "We sometimes find the last line of a couplet or a triplet stretched out to twelve syllables."—Adam cor. "The nouns which follow active verbs, are not in the nominative case."—David Blair cor. "It is a solemn duty to speak plainly of the wrongs which good men perpetrate."—Channing cor. "The gathering of riches is a pleasant torment."—L. Cobb cor. "It is worth being quoted." Or better: "It is worth quoting."—Coleridge cor. "COUNCIL is a noun which admits of a singular and a plural form."—Wright cor. "To exhibit the connexion between the Old Testament and the New."—Keith cor. "An apostrophe discovers the omission of a letter or of letters."—Guy cor. "He is immediately ordained, or rather acknowledged, a hero."—Pope cor. "Which is the same in both the leading and the following state."—Brightland cor. "Pronouns, as will be seen hereafter, have three distinct cases; the nominative, the possessive, and the objective."—D. Blair cor. "A word of many syllables is called a polysyllable."—Beck cor. "Nouns have two numbers; the singular and the plural."—Id. "They have three genders; the masculine, the feminine, and the neuter."—Id. "They have three cases; the nominative, the possessive, and the objective."—Id. "Personal pronouns have, like nouns, two numbers; the singular and the plural;—three genders; the masculine, the feminine, and the neuter;—three cases; the nominative, the possessive, and the objective."—Id. "He must be wise enough to know the singular from the plural"—Id. "Though they may be able to meet every reproach which any one of their fellows may prefer."—Chalmers cor. "Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such a one as Paul the aged."—Bible cor.; also Webster. "A people that jeoparded their lives unto death."—Bible cor. "By preventing too great an accumulation of seed within too narrow a compass."—The Friend cor. "Who fills up the middle space between the animal and the intellectual nature, the visible and the invisible world."—Addison cor. "The Psalms abound with instances of the harmonious arrangement of words."—Murray cor. "On an other table, were a ewer and a vase, likewise of gold."—Mirror cor. "TH is said to have two sounds, a sharp and a flat."—Wilson cor. "The SECTION (§) is sometimes used in the subdividing of a chapter into lesser parts."—Brightland cor. "Try it in a dog, or a horse, or any other creature."—Locke cor. "But particularly in the learning of languages, there is the least occasion to pose children."—Id. "Of what kind is the noun RIVER, and why?"—R. C. Smith cor. "Is WILLIAM'S a proper or a common noun?"—Id. "What kind of article, then, shall we call the?" Or better: "What then shall we call the article the?"—Id.

   "Each burns alike, who can, or cannot write,
    Or with a rival's, or a eunuch's spite."—Pope cor.

LESSON II.—NOUNS, OR CASES.

"And there are stamped upon their imaginations ideas that follow them with terror and affright."—Locke cor. "There's not a wretch that lives on common charity, but's happier than I."—Ven. Pres. cor. "But they overwhelm every one who is ignorant of them."—H. Mann cor. "I have received a letter from my cousin, her that was here last week."—Inst., p. 129. "Gentlemen's houses are seldom without variety of company."—Locke cor. "Because Fortune has laid them below the level of others, at their masters' feet."—Id. "We blamed neither John's nor Mary's delay."—Nixon cor. "The book was written by order of Luther the reformer."—Id. "I saw on the table of the saloon Blair's sermons, and somebody's else, (I forget whose,) and [about the room] a set of noisy children."—Byron cor. "Or saith he it altogether for our sake?"—Bible cor. "He was not aware that the Duke was his competitor."—Sanborn cor. "It is no condition of an adjective, that the word must be placed before a noun." Or: "It is no condition on which a word becomes an adjective, that it must be placed before a noun."—Id., and Fowle cor. "Though their reason corrected the wrong ideas which they had taken in."—Locke cor. "It was he that taught me to hate slavery."—Morris cor. "It is he and his kindred, who live upon the labour of others."—Id. "Payment of tribute is an acknowledgement of him as being King—(of him as King—or, that he is King—) to whom we think it due."—C. Leslie cor. "When we comprehend what is taught us."—Ingersoll cor. "The following words, and parts of words, must be noticed."—Priestley cor. "Hence tears and commiseration are so often employed."—Dr. H. Blair cor. "JOHN-A-NOKES, n. A fictitious name used in law proceedings."—A. Chalmers cor. "The construction of words denoting matter, and the part grasped."—B. F. Fisk cor. "And such other names as carry with them the idea of something terrible and hurtful."—Locke cor. "Every learner then would surely be glad to be spared from the trouble and fatigue."—Pike cor. "It is not the owning of one's dissent from an other, that I speak against."—Locke cor. "A man that cannot fence, will be more careful to keep out of bullies and gamesters' company, and will not be half so apt to stand upon punctilios."—Id. "From such persons it is, that one may learn more in one day, than in a year's rambling from one inn to an other."—Id. "A long syllable is generally considered to be twice as long as a short one."—D. Blair cor. "I is of the first person, and the singular number. THOU is of the second person singular. HE, SHE, or IT, is of the third person singular. WE is of the first person plural. YE or YOU is of the second person plural. THEY is of the third person plural."—Kirkham cor. "This actor, doer, or producer of the action, is denoted by some word in the nominative case."—Id. "Nobody can think, that a boy of three or seven years of age should be argued with as a grown man."—Locke cor. "This was in the house of one of the Pharisees, not in Simon the leper's."—Hammond cor. "Impossible! it can't be I."—Swift cor. "Whose grey top shall tremble, He descending."—Milton, P. L., xii, 227. "Of what gender is woman, and why?"—R. C. Smith cor. "Of what gender, then, is man, and why?"—Id. "Who is this I; whom do you mean when you say I?"—R. W. Green cor. "It has a pleasant air, but the soil is barren."—Locke cor. "You may, in three days' time, go from Galilee to Jerusalem."—W. Whiston cor. "And that which is left of the meat-offering, shall be Aaron's and his sons'."—FRIENDS' BIBLE.

   "For none in all the world, without a lie,
    Can say of this, '_'T_is mine,' but Bunyan, I."—Bunyan cor.

LESSON III.—ADJECTIVES.

"When he can be their remembrancer and advocate at all assizes and sessions."—Leslie cor. "DOING denotes every manner of action; as, to dance, to play, to write, &c."—Buchanan cor. "Seven feet long,"—"eight feet long,"—"fifty feet long."—W. Walker cor. "Nearly the whole of these twenty-five millions of dollars is a dead loss to the nation."—Fowler cor. "Two negatives destroy each other."—R. W. Green cor. "We are warned against excusing sin in ourselves, or in one an other."—Friend cor. "The Russian empire is more extensive than any other government in the world."—Inst., p. 265. "You will always have the satisfaction to think it, of all your expenses, the money best laid out."—Locke cor. "There is no other passion which all mankind so naturally indulge, as pride."—Steele cor. "O, throw away the viler part of it."—Shak. cor. "He showed us an easier and more agreeable way."—Inst., p. 265. "And the last four are to point out those further improvements."—Jamieson and Campbell cor. "Where he has not clear ideas, distinct and different."—Locke cor. "Oh, when shall we have an other such Rector of Laracor!"—Hazlitt cor. "Speech must have been absolutely necessary previously to the formation of society." Or better thus: "Speech must have been absolutely necessary to the formation of society."—Jamieson cor. "Go and tell those boys to be still."—Inst., p. 265. "Wrongs are engraved on marble; benefits, on sand: those are apt to be requited; these, forgot."—G. B. "None of these several interpretations is the true one."—G. B. "My friend indulged himself in some freaks not befitting the gravity of a clergyman."—G. B. "And their pardon is all that any of their impropriators will have to plead."—Leslie cor. "But the time usually chosen to send young men abroad, is, I think, of all periods, that at which they are least capable of reaping those advantages."—Locke cor. "It is a mere figment of the human imagination, a rhapsody of the transcendently unintelligible."—Jamieson cor. "It contains a greater assemblage of sublime ideas, of bold and daring figures, than is perhaps anywhere else to be met with."—Dr. Blair cor. "The order in which the last two words are placed should have been reversed."—Dr. Blair cor.; also L. Murray. "In Demosthenes, eloquence shone forth with higher splendour, than perhaps in any other that ever bore the name of orator."—Dr. Blair cor. "The circumstance of his poverty (or, that he is poor) is decidedly favourable."—Todd cor. "The temptations to dissipation are greatly lessened by his poverty."—Id. "For, with her death, those tidings came."—Shak. cor. "The next objection is, that authors of this sort are poor."—Cleland cor. "Presenting Emma, as Miss Castlemain, to these acquaintances:" or,—"to these persons of her acquaintance."—Opie cor. "I doubt not that it will please more persons than the opera:" or,—"that it will be more pleasing than the opera."—Spect. cor. "The world knows only two; these are Rome and I."—Ben Jonson cor. "I distinguish these two things from each other."—Dr. Blair cor. "And, in this case, mankind reciprocally claim and allow indulgence to one an other."—Sheridan cor. "The last six books are said not to have received the finishing hand of the author."—Dr. Blair cor. "The best-executed part of the work, is the first six books."—Id.

   "To reason how can we be said to rise?
    So hard the task for mortals to be wise!"—Sheffield cor.

LESSON IV.—PRONOUNS.

"Once upon a time, a goose fed her young by a pond's side:" or—"by a pondside."—Goldsmith cor. (See OBS. 33d on Rule 4th.) "If either has a sufficient degree of merit to recommend it to the attention of the public."—J. Walker cor. "Now W. Mitchell's deceit is very remarkable."—Barclay cor. "My brother, I did not put the question to thee, for that I doubted of the truth of thy belief."—Bunyan cor. "I had two elder brothers, one of whom was a lieutenant-colonel."—De Foe cor. "Though James is here the object of the action, yet the word James is in the nominative case."—Wright cor. "Here John is the actor; and the word John is known to be in the nominative, by its answering to the question, 'Who struck Richard?'"—Id. "One of the most distinguished privileges that Providence has conferred upon mankind, is the power of communicating their thoughts to one an other."—Dr. Blair cor. "With some of the most refined feelings that belong to our frame."—Id. "And the same instructions that assist others in composing works of elegance, will assist them in judging of, and relishing, the beauties of composition."—Id. "To overthrow all that had been yielded in favour of the army."—Macaulay cor. "Let your faith stand in the Lord God, who changes not, who created all, and who gives the increase of all."—Friends cor. "For it is, in truth, the sentiment of passion which lies under the figured expression, that gives it all its merit."—Dr. Blair cor. "Verbs are words that affirm the being, doing, or suffering of a thing, together with the time at which it happens."—A. Murray cor. "The bias will always hang on that side on which nature first placed it."—Locke cor. "They should be brought to do the things which are fit for them."—Id. "The various sources from which the English language is derived."—L. Murray cor. "This attention to the several cases in which it is proper to omit or to redouble the copulative, is of considerable importance."—Dr. Blair cor. "Cicero, for instance, speaking of the cases in which it is lawful to kill an other in self-defence, uses the following words."—Id. "But there is no nation, hardly are there any persons, so phlegmatic as not to accompany their words with some actions, or gesticulations, whenever they are much in earnest."—Id. "William's is said to be governed by coat, because coat follows William's" Or better:—"because coat is the name of the thing possessed by William."—R. C. Smith cor. "In life, there are many occasions on which silence and simplicity are marks of true wisdom."—L. Murray cor. "In choosing umpires whose avarice is excited."—Nixon cor. "The boroughs sent representatives, according to law."—Id. "No man believes but that there is some order in the universe."—G. B. "The moon is orderly in her changes, and she could not be so by accident."—Id. "The riddles of the Sphynx (or, The Sphynx's riddles) are generally of two kinds."—Bacon cor. "They must generally find either their friends or their enemies in power."—Dr. Brown cor. "For, of old, very many took upon them to write what happened in their own time."—Whiston cor. "The Almighty cut off the family of Eli the high priest, for their transgressions."—The Friend,