The Grammar of English Grammars Part 124

"To use that endearing language, Our Father, who is in heaven"--_Bates's Doctrines_, p. 103. "Resembling the pa.s.sions that produceth these actions."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, i, 157. "Except _dwarf, grief, hoof, m.u.f.f_, &c. which takes _s_ to make the plural."--_Ash's Gram._, p. 19. "As the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure."-- _Gen._ x.x.xiii, 14 "Where is the man who dare affirm that such an action is mad?"--_Werter_. "The ninth book of Livy affords one of the most beautiful exemplifications of historical painting, that is any where to be met with."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 360. "In some studies too, that relate to taste and fine writing, which is our object," &c.--_Ib._, p. 349. "Of those affecting situations, which makes man's heart feel for man."--_Ib._, p.

464. "We see very plainly, that it is neither Osmyn, nor Jane Sh.o.r.e, that speak."--_Ib._, p. 468. "It should a.s.sume that briskness and ease, which is suited to the freedom of dialogue."--_Ib._, p. 469. "Yet they grant, that none ought to be admitted into the ministry, but such as is truly pious."--_Barclay's Works_, iii, 147. "This letter is one of the best that has been written about Lord Byron."--_Hunt's Byron_, p. 119. "Thus, besides what was sunk, the Athenians took above two hundred ships."--_Goldsmith's Greece_, i, 102. "To have made and declared such orders as was necessary."--_Hutchinson's Hist._, i, 470. "The idea of such a collection of men as make an army."--_Locke's Essay_, p. 217. "I'm not the first that have been wretched."--_Southern's In. Ad._, Act 2. "And the faint sparks of it, which is in the angels, are concealed from our view."--_Calvin's Inst.i.tutes_, B. i, Ch. 11. "The subjects are of such a nature, as allow room for much diversity of taste and sentiment."--_Blair's Rhet., Pref._, p. 5. "It is in order to propose examples of such perfection, as are not to be found in the real examples of society."--_Formey's Belles-Lettres_, p.

16. "I do not believe that he would amuse himself with such fooleries as has been attributed to him."--_Ib._, p. 218. "That shepherd, who first taughtst the chosen seed."--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 238. "With respect to the vehemence and warmth which is allowed in popular eloquence."-- _Blair's Rhet._, p. 261. "Ambition is one of those pa.s.sions that is never to be satisfied."--_Home's Art of Thinking_, p. 36. "Thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel."--_2 Samuel_, v, 2; and _1 Chron._, xi, 2. "Art thou the man of G.o.d that camest from Judah?"--_1 Kings_, xiii, 14.

"How beauty is excell'd by manly grace And wisdom, which alone is truly fair."--_Milton_, B. iv, l. 490.

"What art thou, speak, that on designs unknown, While others sleep, thus range the camp alone?"--_Pope, Il._, x, 90.

UNDER NOTE II.--NOMINATIVE WITH ADJUNCTS.

"The literal sense of the words are, that the action had been done."--_Dr.

Murray's Hist. of Lang._, i, 65. "The rapidity of his movements were beyond example."--_Wells's Hist._, p. 161. "Murray's Grammar, together with his Exercises and Key, have nearly superseded every thing else of the kind."--EVAN'S REC.: _Murray's Gram._, 8vo, ii, 305. "The mechanism of clocks and watches were totally unknown."--HUME: _Priestley's Gram._, p.

193. "The _it_, together with the verb _to be_, express states of being."--_Cobbett's Eng. Gram._, -- 190. "Hence it is, that the profuse variety of objects in some natural landscapes, neither breed confusion nor fatigue."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, i, 266. "Such a clatter of sounds indicate rage and ferocity."--_Music of Nature_, p. 195. "One of the fields make threescore square yards, and the other only fifty-five."--_Duncan's Logic_, p. 8. "The happy effects of this fable is worth attending to."--_Bailey's Ovid_, p. x. "Yet the glorious serenity of its parting rays still linger with us."--_Gould's Advocate_. "Enough of its form and force are retained to render them uneasy."--_Maturin's Sermons_, p. 261. "The works of nature, in this respect, is extremely regular."--_Dr. Pratt's Werter_. "No small addition of exotic and foreign words and phrases have been made by commerce."--_Bicknell's Gram._, Part ii, p. 10. "The dialect of some nouns are taken notice of in the notes."--_Milnes, Greek Gram._, p.

255. "It has been said, that a discovery of the full resources of the arts, afford the means of debas.e.m.e.nt, or of perversion."--_Rush, on the Voice_, p. xxvii. "By which means the Order of the Words are disturbed."--_Holmes's Rhet._, B. i, p. 57. "The twofold influence of these and the others require the a.s.serter to be in the plural form."--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 251.

"And each of these afford employment."--_Percival's Tales_, Vol. ii, p.

175. "The p.r.o.nunciation of the vowels are best explained under the rules relative to the consonants."--_Coar's Gram._, p. 7. "The judicial power of these courts extend to all cases in law and equity."--_Hall and Baker's School Hist._, p. 286. "One of you have stolen my money."--_Rational Humorist_, p. 45. "Such redundancy of epithets, instead of pleasing, produce satiety and disgust."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, ii, 256. "It has been alleged, that a compliance with the rules of Rhetoric, tend to cramp the mind."--_Hiley's Gram._, 3d Ed., p. 187. "Each of these are presented to us in different relations"--_Hendrick's Gram._, 1st Ed., p. 34. "The past tense of these verbs, _should, would, might, could_, are very indefinite with respect to time."--_Bullions, E. Gram._, 2d Ed., p. 33; 5th Ed., p.

31. "The power of the words, which are said to govern this mood, are distinctly understood."--_Chandler's Gram._, Ed. of 1821, p. 33.

"And now, at length, the fated term of years The world's desire have brought, and lo! the G.o.d appears."

--_Dr. Lowth, on "the Genealogy of Christ."_

"Variety of Numbers still belong To the soft Melody of Ode or Song."

--_Brightland's Gram._, p. 170.

UNDER NOTE III.--COMPOSITE OR CONVERTED SUBJECTS.

"Many are the works of human industry, which to begin and finish are hardly granted to the same man."--_Johnson, Adv. to Dict._ "To lay down rules for these are as inefficacious."--_Dr. Pratt's Werter_, p. 19. "To profess regard, and to act _differently_, discover a base mind."--_Murray's Key_, ii, p. 206. See also _Bullions's E. Gram._, 82 and 112; _Lennie's_, 58. "To magnify to the height of wonder things great, new, and admirable, extremely please the mind of man."--_Fisher's Gram._, p. 152. "In this pa.s.sage, _according as_ are used in a manner which is very common."--_Webster's Philosophical Gram._, p. 183. "A _cause de_ are called a preposition; _a cause que_, a conjunction."--DR. WEBSTER: _Knickerbocker_, 1836. "To these are given to speak in the name of the Lord."--_The Friend_, vii, 256.

"While _wheat_ has no plural, _oats_ have seldom any singular."--_Cobbett's E. Gram._ -- 41. "He cannot a.s.sert that _ll_ are inserted in _fullness_ to denote the sound of _u_."--_Cobb's Review of Webster_, p. 11. "_ch_ have the power of _k_."--_Gould's Adam's Gram._, p. 2. "_ti_, before a vowel, and unaccented, have the sound of _si_ or _ci_."--_Ibid._ "In words derived from the French, as _chagrin, chicanery_, and _chaise, ch_ are sounded like _sh_."--_Bucke's Gram._, p. 10. "But in the word _schism, schismatic_, &c., the _ch_ are silent."--_Ibid._ "_Ph_ are always sounded like _f_, at the beginning of words."--_Bucke's Gram._ "_Ph_ have the sound of _f_ as in _philosophy_."--_Webster's El. Spelling-Book_, p. 11. "_Sh_ have one sound only as in _shall_."--_Ib._ "_Th_ have two sounds."--_Ib._ "_Sc_ have the sound of _sk_, before _a, o, u_, and _r_."--_Ib._ "Aw, have the sound of _a_ in hall."--_Bolles's Spelling-Book_, p. vi. "Ew, sound like _u_."--_Ib._ "Ow, when both sounded, have the sound of _ou_."--_Ib._ "Ui, when both p.r.o.nounced in one syllable sound like _wi_ in _languid_."--_Ib._

"_Ui_ three several Sorts of Sound express, As _Guile, rebuild, Bruise_ and _Recruit_ confess."

--_Brightland's Gram._, p. 34.

UNDER NOTE IV.--EACH, ONE, EITHER, AND NEITHER.

"When each of the letters which compose this word, have been learned."--_Dr. Weeks, on Orthog._, p. 22. "As neither of us deny that both Homer and Virgil have great beauties."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 21. "Yet neither of them are remarkable for precision."--_Ib._, p. 95. "How far each of the three great epic poets have distinguished themselves."--_Ib._, p.

427. "Each of these produce a separate agreeable sensation."--_Ib._, p. 48.

"On the Lord's day every one of us Christians keep the sabbath."--_Tr. of Irenaeus_. "And each of them bear the image of purity and holiness."--_Hope of Israel_, p. 81. "Were either of these meetings ever acknowledged or recognized?"--_Foster's Report_, i, 96. "Whilst neither of these letters exist in the Eugubian inscription."--_Knight, on Greek Alph._, p. 122. "And neither of them are properly termed indefinite."--_Wilson's Essay on Gram._, p. 88. "As likewise of the several subjects, which have in effect each their verb."--_Lowth's Gram._, p. 120. "Sometimes when the word ends in _s_, neither of the signs are used."--_Alex. Murray's Gram._, p. 21.

"And as neither of these manners offend the ear."--_Walker's Dict., Pref._, p. 5. "Neither of these two Tenses are confined to this signification only."--_Johnson's Gram. Com._, p. 339. "But neither of these circ.u.mstances are intended here."--_Tooke's Diversions_, ii, 237. "So that all are indebted to each, and each are dependent upon all."--_Am. Bible Society's Rep._, 1838, p. 89. "And yet neither of them express any more action in this case than they did in the other."--_Bullions, E. Gram._, p. 201. "Each of these expressions denote action."--_Hallock's Gram._, p. 74. "Neither of these moods seem to be defined by distinct boundaries."--_Butler's Practical Gram._, p. 66. "Neither of these solutions are correct."-- _Bullions, Lat. Gram._, p. 236. "Neither bear any sign of case at all."--_Fowler's E. Gram._, 8vo, 1850, --217.

"Each in their turn like Banquo's monarchs stalk."--_Byron_.

"And tell what each of them by th'other lose."--_Shak., Cori._, iii, 2.

UNDER NOTE V.--VERB BETWEEN TWO NOMINATIVES.

"The quarrels of lovers is a renewal of love."--_Adam's Lat. Gram._, p.

156; _Alexander's_, 49; _Gould's_, 159; _Bullions's_, 206. "Two dots, one placed above the other, is called _Sheva_."--_Dr. Wilson's Heb. Gram._, p.

43. "A few centuries, more or less, is a matter of small consequence."--_Ib._ p. 31. "Pictures were the first step towards the art of writing. Hieroglyphicks was the second step."--_Parker's English Composition_, p. 27. "The comeliness of youth are modesty and frankness; of age, condescension and dignity."--_Murray's Key_, 8vo, p. 166. "Merit and good works is the end of man's motion."--_Lord Bacon_. "Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mind."--_Shakspeare_. "The clothing of the natives were the skins of wild beasts."--_Indian Wars_, p.

92. "Prepossessions in favor of our nativ town, is not a matter of surprise."--_Webster's Essays_, p. 217. "Two shillings and six pence is half a crown, but not a half crown."--_Priestley's Gram._, p. 150; _Bicknell's_, ii, 53. "Two vowels, p.r.o.nounced by a single impulse of the voice, and uniting in one sound, is called a dipthong."--_Cooper's Pl. and Pr. Gram._, p. 1. "Two or more sentences united together is called a Compound Sentence."--_P. E. Day's District School Gram._, p. 10. "Two or more words rightly put together, but not completing an entire proposition, is called a Phrase."--_Ibid._ "But the common Number of Times are five."--_The British Grammar_, p. 122. "Technical terms, injudiciously introduced, is another source of darkness in composition."--_Jamieson's Rhet._, p. 107. "The United States is the great middle division of North America."--_Morse's Geog._, p. 44. "A great cause of the low state of industry were the restraints put upon it."--HUME: _Murray's Gram._, p. 145; _Ingersoll's_, 172; _Sanborn's_, 192; _Smith's_, 123; and others. "Here two tall ships becomes the victor's prey."--_Rowe's Lucan_, B. ii, l. 1098.

"The expenses incident to an outfit is surely no object."--_The Friend_, Vol. iii., p. 200.

"Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, Was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep."--_Milton_.

UNDER NOTE VI.--CHANGE THE NOMINATIVE.

"Much pains has been taken to explain all the kinds of words."--_Infant School Gram._ p. 128. "Not less [_time_] than three years are spent in attaining this faculty."--_Music of Nature_, p. 28. "Where this night are met in state Many a friend to gratulate His wish'd presence."--_Milton's Comus_. l. 948. "Peace! my darling, here's no danger, Here's no oxen near thy bed."--_Watts._ "But every one of these are mere conjectures, and some of them very unhappy ones."--_Coleridge's Introduction_, p. 61. "The old theorists, calling the Interrogatives and Repliers, _adverbs_, is only a part of their regular system of naming words."--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p.

374. "Where a series of sentences occur, place them in the order in which the facts occur."--_Ib._, p. 264. "And that the whole in conjunction make a regular chain of causes and effects."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, ii, 275. "The origin of the Grecian, and Roman republics, though equally involved in the obscurities and uncertainties of fabulous events, present one remarkable distinction."--_Adam's Rhet._, i, 95. "In these respects, mankind is left by nature an unformed, unfinished creature."--_Butler's a.n.a.logy_, p. 144.

"The scripture are the oracles of G.o.d himself."--HOOKER: _Joh. Dict., w.

Oracle_. "And at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits."--_Solomon's Song_, vii, 13. "The preterit of _pluck, look_, and _toss_ are, in speech, p.r.o.nounced _pluckt, lookt, tosst_."--_Fowler's E. Gram._, 1850, --68.

"Severe the doom that length of days impose, To stand sad witness of unnumber'd woes!"--_Melmoth_.

UNDER NOTE VII.--ADAPT FORM TO STYLE.

1. _Forms not proper for the Common or Familiar Style_.

"Was it thou that buildedst that house?"--_Inst._, p. 151. "That boy writeth very elegantly."--_Ib._ "Couldest not thou write without blotting thy book?"--_Ib._ "Thinkest thou not it will rain to-day?"--_Ib._ "Doth not your cousin intend to visit you?"--_Ib._ "That boy hath torn my book."--_Ib._ "Was it thou that spreadest the hay?"--_Ib._ "Was it James, or thou, that didst let him in?"--_Ib._ "He dareth not say a word."--_Ib._ "Thou stoodest in my way and hinderedst me."--_Ib._

"Whom see I?--Whom seest thou now?--Whom sees he?--Whom lovest thou most?--What dost thou to-day?--What person seest thou teaching that boy?--He hath two new knives.--Which road takest thou?--What child teaches he?"--_Ingersoll's Gram._, p. 66. "Thou, who makest my shoes, sellest many more."--_Ib._, p. 67.

"The English language hath been much cultivated during the last two hundred years. It hath been considerably polished and refined."--_Lowth's Gram., Pref._, p. iii. "This _stile_ is ostentatious, and doth not suit grave writing."--_Priestley's Gram._, p. 82. "But custom hath now appropriated _who_ to persons, and _which_ to things."--_Ib._, p. 97. "The indicative mood sheweth or declareth; as, _Ego amo_, I love: or else asketh a question; as, _Amas tu_? Dost thou love?"--_Paul's Accidence_, Ed. of 1793, p. 16. "Though thou canst not do much for the cause, thou mayst and shouldst do something."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 143. "The support of so many of his relations, was a heavy task; but thou knowest he paid it cheerfully."--_Murray's Key_, R. 1, p. 180. "It may, and often doth, come short of it."--_Campbell's Rhetoric_, p. 160.

"'Twas thou, who, while thou seem'dst to chide, To give me all thy pittance tried."--_Mitford's Blanch_, p. 78.

2. _Forms not proper for the Solemn or Biblical Style_.

"The Lord has prepaid his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom rules over all."--See _Key_. "Thou answer'd them, O Lord our G.o.d: thou was a G.o.d that forgave them, though thou took vengeance of their inventions."--See _Key_.

"Then thou spoke in vision to thy Holy One, and said, I have laid help upon one that is mighty."--See _Key_. "So then, it is not of him that wills, nor of him that rules, but of G.o.d that shows mercy; who dispenses his blessings, whether temporal or spiritual, as seems good in his sight."--See _Key_.

"Thou, the mean while, was blending with my thought; Yea, with my life, and life's own secret joy."--_Coleridge_.

UNDER NOTE VIII.--EXPRESS THE NOMINATIVE.

"Who is here so base, that would be a bondman?"--_Beauties of Shakspeare_, p. 249. "Who is here so rude, that would not be a Roman?"--_Ib._ "There is not a sparrow falls to the ground without his notice."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 300. "In order to adjust them so, as shall consist equally with the perspicuity and the strength of the period."--_Ib._, p. 324; _Blair's Rhet._, 118. "But, sometimes, there is a verb comest in."--_Cobbett's English Gram._, --248. "Mr. Prince has a genius would prompt him to better things."--_Spectator_, No. 466. "It is this removes that impenetrable mist."--_Harris's Hermes_, p. 362. "By the praise is given him for his courage."--_Locke, on Education_, p. 214. "There is no man would be more welcome here."--_Steele, Spect._, No. 544. "Between an antecedent and a consequent, or what goes before, and immediately follows."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 141. "And as connected with what goes before and follows."-- _Ib._, p. 354. "There is no man doth a wrong for the wrong's sake."--_Lord Bacon_. "All the various miseries of life, which people bring upon themselves by negligence and folly, and might have been avoided by proper care, are instances of this."--_Butler's a.n.a.logy_, p. 108. "Ancient philosophers have taught many things in favour of morality, so far at least as respect justice and goodness towards our fellow-creatures."--_Gospel its own Witness_, p. 56. "Indeed, if there be any such, have been, or appear to be of us, as suppose, there is not a wise man among us all, nor an honest man, that is able to judge betwixt his brethren; we shall not covet to meddle in their matter."--_Barclay's Works_, i, 504. "There were that drew back; there were that made shipwreck of faith: yea, there were that brought in d.a.m.nable heresies."--_Ib._, i, 466. "The nature of the cause rendered this plan altogether proper, and in similar situations is fit to be imitated."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 274. "This is an idiom to which our language is strongly inclined, and was formerly very prevalent."-- _Churchill's Gram._, p. 150. "His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones."--_Job_, viii, 17.

"New York, Fifthmonth 3d, 1823.

"Dear friend, Am sorry to hear of thy loss; but hope it may be retrieved. Should be happy to render thee any a.s.sistance in my power.

Shall call to see thee to-morrow morning. Accept a.s.surances of my regard. A. B."

"New York, May 3d, P. M., 1823.

"Dear Sir, Have just received the kind note favoured me with this morning; and cannot forbear to express my grat.i.tude to you. On further information, find have not lost so much as at first supposed; and believe shall still be able to meet all my engagements. Should, however, be happy to see you. Accept, dear sir, my most cordial thanks.