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

an other bridge of four hundred feet in length."—Brightland cor. "METONYMY is the putting of one name for an other, on account of the near relation which there is between them."—Fisher cor. "ANTONOMASIA is the putting of an appellative or common name for a proper name."—Id. "That it is I, should make no difference in your determination."—Bullions cor. "The first and second pages are torn." Or. "The first and the second page are torn." Or: "The first page and the second are torn."—Id. "John's absence from home occasioned the delay."—Id. "His neglect of opportunities for improvement, was the cause of his disgrace."—Id. "He will regret his neglect of his opportunities for improvement, when it is too late."—Id. "His expertness at dancing does not entitle him to our regard."—Id. "Cæsar went back to Rome, to take possession of the public treasure, which his opponent, by a most unaccountable oversight, had neglected to carry away with him."—Goldsmith cor. "And Cæsar took out of the treasury, gold to the amount of three thousand pounds' weight, besides an immense quantity of silver." [548]—Id. "Rules and definitions, which should always be as clear and intelligible as possible, are thus rendered obscure."—Greenleaf cor. "So much both of ability and of merit is seldom found." Or thus: "So much of both ability and merit is seldom found."[549]—L. Murray cor. "If such maxims, and such practices prevail, what has become of decency and virtue?"[550]—Murray's False Syntax, ii, 62. Or: "If such maxims and practices prevail, what will become of decency and virtue?"—Murray and Bullions cor. "Especially if the subject does not require so much pomp."—Dr. Blair cor. "However, the proper mixture of light and shade in such compositions,—the exact adjustment of all the figurative circumstances with the literal sense,—has ever been found an affair of great nicety."—Blair's Rhet., p. 151. "And adding to that hissing in our language, which is so much noticed by foreigners."—Addison, Coote, and Murray, cor. "To speak impatiently to servants, or to do any thing that betrays unkindness, or ill-humour, is certainly criminal." Or better: "Impatience, unkindness, or ill-humour, is certainly criminal."—Mur. et al. cor. "Here are a fullness and grandeur of expression, well suited to the subject."—Dr. Blair cor. "I single out Strada from among the moderns, because he had the foolish presumption to censure Tacitus."—L. Murray cor. "I single him out from among the moderns, because," &c.—Bolingbroke cor. "This rule is not always observed, even by good writers, so strictly as it ought to be."—Dr. Blair cor. "But this gravity and assurance, which are beyond boyhood, being neither wisdom nor knowledge, do never reach to manhood."—Pope cor. "The regularity and polish even of a turnpike-road, have some influence upon the low people in the neighbourhood."—Kames cor. "They become fond of regularity and neatness; and this improvement of their taste is displayed, first upon their yards and little enclosures, and next within doors."—Id. "The phrase, 'it is impossible to exist,' gives us the idea, that it is impossible for men, or any body, to exist."—Priestley cor. "I'll give a thousand pounds to look upon him."—Shak. cor. "The reader's knowledge, as Dr. Campbell observes, may prevent him from mistaking it."—Crombie and Murray cor. "When two words are set in contrast, or in opposition to each other, they are both emphatic."—L. Murray cor. "The number of the persons—men, women, and children—who were lost in the sea, was very great." Or thus: "The number of persons—men, women, and children—that were lost in the sea, was very great."—Id. "Nor is the resemblance between the primary and the resembling object pointed out."—Jamieson cor. "I think it the best book of the kind, that I have met with."—Mathews cor.

   "Why should not we their ancient rites restore,
    And be what Rome or Athens was before?"—Roscommon cor.

LESSON XII.—TWO ERRORS.

"It is labour only that gives relish to pleasure."—L. Murray cor. "Groves are never more agreeable than in the opening of spring."—Id. "His Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful, soon made him known to the literati."—See Blair's Lect., pp. 34 and 45. "An awful precipice or tower from which we look down on the objects which are below."—Dr. Blair cor. "This passage, though very poetical, is, however, harsh and obscure; and for no other cause than this, that three distinct metaphors are crowded together."—Id. "I purpose to make some observations."—Id. "I shall here follow the same method that I have all along pursued."—Id. "Mankind at no other time resemble one an other so much as they do in the beginnings of society."—Id. "But no ear is sensible of the termination of each foot, in the reading of a hexameter line."—Id. "The first thing, says he, that a writer either of fables or of heroic poems does, is, to choose some maxim or point of morality."—Id. "The fourth book has always been most justly admired, and indeed it abounds with beauties of the highest kind."—Id. "There is in the poem no attempt towards the painting of characters."—Id. "But the artificial contrasting of characters, and the constant introducing of them in pairs and by opposites, give too theatrical and affected an air to the piece."—Id. "Neither of them is arbitrary or local."—Kames cor. "If the crowding of figures is bad, it is still worse to graft one figure upon an other."—Id. "The crowding-together of so many objects lessens the pleasure."—Id. "This therefore lies not in the putting-off of the hat, nor in the making of compliments."—Locke cor. "But the Samaritan Vau may have been used, as the Jews used the Chaldaic, both for a vowel and for a consonant."—Wilson cor. "But if a solemn and a familiar pronunciation really exist in our language, is it not the business of a grammarian to mark both?"—J. Walker cor. "By making sounds follow one an other agreeably to certain laws."—Gardiner cor. "If there were no drinking of intoxicating draughts, there could be no drunkards."—Peirce cor. "Socrates knew his own defects, and if he was proud of any thing, it was of being thought to have none."—Goldsmith cor. "Lysander, having brought his army to Ephesus, erected an arsenal for the building of galleys."—Id. "The use of these signs is worthy of remark."—Brightland cor. "He received me in the same manner in which I would receive you." Or thus: "He received me as I would receive you."—R. C. Smith cor. "Consisting of both the direct and the collateral evidence."—Bp. Butler cor. "If any man or woman that believeth hath widows, let him or her relieve them, and let not the church be charged."—Bible cor. "For men's sake are beasts bred."—W. Walker cor. "From three o'clock, there were drinking and gaming."—Id. "Is this he that I am seeking, or not?"—Id. "And for the upholding of every one's own opinion, there is so much ado."—Sewel cor. "Some of them, however, will necessarily be noticed."—Sale cor. "The boys conducted themselves very indiscreetly."—Merchant cor. "Their example, their influence, their fortune,—every talent they possess,—dispenses blessings on all persons around them."—Id. and Murray cor. "The two Reynoldses reciprocally converted each other."—Johnson cor. "The destroying of the last two, Tacitus calls an attack upon virtue itself."—Goldsmith cor. "Moneys are your suit."—Shak. cor. "Ch is commonly sounded like tch, as in church; but in words derived from Greek, it has the sound of k."—L. Murray cor. "When one is obliged to make some utensil serve for purposes to which it was not originally destined."—Campbell cor. "But that a baptism with water is a washing-away of sin, thou canst not hence prove."—Barclay cor. "Being spoken to but one, it infers no universal command."—Id. "For if the laying-aside of copulatives gives force and liveliness, a redundancy of them must render the period languid."—Buchanan cor. "James used to compare him to a cat, which always falls upon her legs."—Adam cor.

   "From the low earth aspiring genius springs,
    And sails triumphant borne on eagle's wings."—Lloyd cor.

LESSON XIII.—TWO ERRORS

"An ostentatious, a feeble, a harsh, or an obscure style, for instance, is always faulty."—Dr. Blair cor. "Yet in this we find that the English pronounce quite agreeably to rule." Or thus: "Yet in this we find the English pronunciation perfectly agreeable to rule." Or thus: "Yet in this we find that the English pronounce in a manner perfectly agreeable to rule."—J. Walker cor. "But neither the perception of ideas, nor knowledge of any sort, is a habit, though absolutely necessary to the forming of habits."—Bp. Butler cor. "They were cast; and a heavy fine was imposed upon them."—Goldsmith cor. "Without making this reflection, he cannot enter into the spirit of the author, or relish the composition."—Dr. Blair cor. "The scholar should be instructed in relation to the finding of his words." Or thus: "The scholar should be told how to find his words."—Osborn cor. "And therefore they could neither have forged, nor have reversified them."—Knight cor. "A dispensary is a place at which medicines are dispensed to the poor."—L. Mur. cor. "Both the connexion and the number of words are determined by general laws."—Neef cor. "An Anapest has the first two syllables unaccented, and the last one accented; as, c~ontr~av=ene, acquiésce."—L. Mur. cor. "An explicative sentence is one in which a thing is said, in a direct manner, to be or not to be, to do or not to do, to suffer or not to suffer."—Lowth and Mur. cor. "BUT is a conjunction whenever it is neither an adverb nor a preposition." [551]—R. C. Smith cor. "He wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed the writing with the king's ring."—Bible cor. "Camm and Audland had departed from the town before this time."—Sewel cor. "Before they will relinquish the practice, they must be convinced."—Webster cor. "Which he had thrown up before he set out."—Grimshaw cor. "He left to him the value of a hundred drachms in Persian money."—Spect cor. "All that the mind can ever contemplate concerning them, must be divided among the three."—Cardell cor. "Tom Puzzle is one of the most eminent immethodical disputants, of all that have fallen under my observation."—Spect. cor. "When you have once got him to think himself compensated for his suffering, by the praise which is given him for his courage."—Locke cor. "In all matters in which simple reason, or mere speculation is concerned."—Sheridan cor. "And therefore he should be spared from the trouble of attending to anything else than his meaning."—Id. "It is this kind of phraseology that is distinguished by the epithet idiomatical; a species that was originally the spawn, partly of ignorance, and partly of affectation."—Campbell and Murray cor. "That neither the inflection nor the letters are such as could have been employed by the ancient inhabitants of Latium."—Knight cor. "In those cases in which the verb is intended to be applied to any one of the terms."—L. Murray cor. "But these people who know not the law, are accursed."—Bible cor. "And the magnitude of the choruses has weight and sublimity."—Gardiner cor. "Dares he deny that there are some of his fraternity guilty?"—Barclay cor. "Giving an account of most, if not all, of the papers which had passed betwixt them."—Id. "In this manner, as to both parsing and correcting, should all the rules of syntax be treated, being taken up regularly according to their order."—L. Murray cor. "To Ovando were allowed a brilliant retinue and a body-guard."—Sketch cor. "Was it I or he, that you requested to go?"—Kirkham cor. "Let thee and me go on."—Bunyan cor. "This I nowhere affirmed; and I do wholly deny it."—Barclay cor. "But that I deny; and it remains for him to prove it."—Id. "Our country sinks beneath the yoke: She weeps, she bleeds, and each new day a gash Is added to her wounds."—Shak. cor. "Thou art the Lord who chose Abraham and brought him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees."—Bible and Mur. cor. "He is the exhaustless fountain, from which emanate all these attributes that exist throughout this wide creation."—Wayland cor. "I am he who has communed with the son of Neocles; I am he who has entered the gardens of pleasure."—Wright cor.

   "Such were in ancient times the tales received,
    Such by our good forefathers were believed."—Rowe cor.

LESSON XIV.—TWO ERRORS.

"The noun or pronoun that stands before the active verb, usually represents the agent."—A. Murray cor. "Such seem to have been the musings of our hero of the grammar-quill, when he penned the first part of his grammar."—Merchant cor. "Two dots, the one placed above the other [:], are called Sheva, and are used to represent a very short e."—Wilson cor. "Great have been, and are, the obscurity and difficulty, in the nature and application of them" [: i.e.—of natural remedies].—Butler cor. "As two are to four, so are four to eight."—Everest cor. "The invention and use of arithmetic, reach back to a period so remote, as to be beyond the knowledge of history."— Robertson cor. "What it presents as objects of contemplation or enjoyment, fill and satisfy his mind."—Id. "If he dares not say they are, as I know he dares not, how must I then distinguish?"—Barclay cor. "He had now grown so fond of solitude,