The Grammar of English Grammars Part 228

UNDER NOTE I.--OF THE CASE DOUBTFUL.

"I had no knowledge of _any connexion_ between them."--_Col. Stone cor._ "To promote iniquity in others, is nearly the same _thing_, as _to be_ the actors of it ourselves." (That is, "_For us_ to promote iniquity in others, is nearly the same _thing_ as _for us_ to be the actors of it _ourselves_.")--_Murray cor._ "It must arise from _a delicate_ feeling _in_ ourselves."--_Blair and Murray cor._ "_Because there has not_ been exercised a competent physical power for their enforcement."--_Ma.s.s.

Legisl. cor._ "PUPILAGE, _n._ The state of a _pupil_, or scholar."--_Dictionaries cor._ "Then the other _part_, being the _definition, would include_ all verbs, of every description."--_Peirce cor._ "John's _friendship for me_ saved me from inconvenience."--_Id._ "William's _judgeship_"--or, "William's _appointment to the office of_ judge,--changed his whole demeanour."--_Id._ "William's _practical acquaintance with teaching_, was the cause of the interest he felt."--_Id._ "_To be_ but one among many, stifleth the chidings of conscience."--_Tupper cor._ "As for _the opinion that it is_ a close translation, I doubt not that many have been led into that error by the shortness of it."--_Pope cor._ "All presumption _that death is_ the destruction of living beings, must go upon _the_ supposition that they are compounded, and _therefore_ discerptible."--_Bp. Butler cor._ "This argues rather _that they are_ proper names."--_Churchill cor._ "But may it not be retorted, that _this gratification itself_, is that which excites our resentment?"--_Campbell cor._ "Under the common notion, _that it is_ a system of the whole poetical art."--_Blair cor._ "Whose _want of_ time, or _whose_ other circ.u.mstances, forbid _them to become_ cla.s.sical scholars."--_Lit. Jour. cor._ "It would _prove him not to have been a mere_ fict.i.tious personage." Or: "It would preclude the notion _that he was merely a_ fict.i.tious personage."--_Phil.

Mu. cor._ "For _heresy_, or under pretence _that they are_ heretics or infidels."--_Oath cor._ "We may here add Dr. Horne's sermon on _Christ, as being_ the Object of religious adoration."--_Rel. World cor._ "To say nothing of Dr. _Priestley, as being_ a strenuous advocate," &c.--_Id._ "_Through the agency of Adam, as being_ their public head." Or: "_Because Adam was_ their public head."--_Id._ "Objections against _the existence of_ any such moral plan as this."--_Butler cor._ "A greater instance of a _man_ being a blockhead."--_Spect. cor._ "We may insure or promote _what will make it_ a happy state of existence to ourselves."--_Gurney cor._ "_Since it often undergoes_ the same kind of unnatural treatment."--_Kirkham cor._ "Their _apparent_ foolishness"--"Their _appearance of foolishness_"--or, "_That they appear_ foolishness,--is no presumption against this."--_Butler cor._ "But what arises from _them_ as being offences; i.e., from their _liability_ to be perverted."--_Id._ "And he _went_ into _the_ house _of_ a certain man named Justus, one that _worshiped_ G.o.d."--_Acts cor._

UNDER NOTE II.--OF FALSE IDENTIFICATION.

"But _popular_, he observes, is an ambiguous word."--_Blair cor._ "The infinitive mood, a _phrase, or a sentence_, is often _made the subject of_ a verb."--_Murray cor._ "When any person, in speaking, introduces his name _after the p.r.o.noun I_, it is _of_ the first person; as, 'I, James, of the city of Boston.'"--_R. C. Smith cor._ "The name of the person spoken to, is _of_ the second person; as, 'James, come to me.'"--_Id._ "The name of the person or thing _merely_ spoken of, or about, is _of_ the third person; as, 'James has come.'"--_Id._ "The pa.s.sive verb _has no object, because_ its subject or nominative always represents _what is acted upon_, and the _object_ of a verb must needs be in the _objective_ case."--_Id._ "When a noun is in the nominative to an active verb, it _denotes_ the actor."--_Kirkham cor._ "And _the p.r.o.noun_ THOU _or_ YE, _standing for the name of_ the person _or persons_ commanded, is its nominative."--_Ingersoll cor._ "The first person is that _which denotes the speaker_."--_Brown's Inst.i.tutes_, p. 32. "The conjugation of a verb is _a regular arrangement of_ its different variations or inflections throughout the moods and tenses."--_Wright cor._ "The first person is _that which denotes_ the speaker _or writer_."--G. BROWN: for the correction of _Parker and Fox, Hiley_, and _Sanborn_. "The second person is _that which denotes the hearer, or the person addressed_."--_Id._: for _the same_. "The third person is _that which denotes the person or thing merely_ spoken of."--_Id._: for _the same_, "_I_ is _of_ the first person, singular; WE, _of_ the first person, plural."--_Mur. et al. cor._ "THOU is _of_ the second person, singular; YE or You, _of_ the second person, plural."--_Iid._ "HE, SHE, or IT, is _of_ the third person, singular; THEY, _of_ the third person, plural."--_Iid._ "The nominative case _denotes_ the actor, _and is the_ subject of the verb."--_Kirkham cor._ "John is the actor, therefore _the noun_ JOHN is in the nominative case."--_Id._ "The actor is always _expressed_ by the nominative case, _unless the verb be pa.s.sive_."--_R. C. Smith cor._ "The nominative case _does not_ always _denote an_ agent or actor."--_Mack cor._ "_In mentioning_ each name, tell the part of speech."--_John Flint cor._ "_Of_ what number is _boy_?

Why?"--_Id._ "_Of_ what number is _pens_? Why?"--_Id._ "The speaker is _denoted by_ the first person; the person spoken to _is denoted by_ the second person; and the person or thing spoken of is _denoted by_ the third person."--_Id._ "What nouns are _of the_ masculine gender? _The names of_ all males are _of the_ masculine gender."--_Id._ "An interjection is a _word that is uttered merely to indicate some strong or_ sudden emotion of the mind."--_G. Brown's Grammars_.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE VII; OF OBJECTIVES.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.--OF THE OBJECTIVE IN FORM.

"But I do not remember _whom_ they were for."--_Abbott cor._ "But if you can't help it, _whom_ do you complain of?"--_Collier cor._ "_Whom_ was it from? and what was it about?"--_M. Edgeworth cor._ "I have plenty of victuals, and, between you and _me_, something in a corner."--_Day cor._ "The upper one, _whom_ I am now about to speak of."--_Leigh Hunt cor._ "And to poor _us, thy_ enmity _is_ most capital."--_Shak. cor._ "Which, thou dost confess, _'twere_ fit for thee to use, as _them_ to claim." That is,--"as _for them_ to claim."--_Id._ "To beg of thee, it is my more dishonour, than _thee_ of them." That is,--"than _for thee to beg_ of them."--_Id._ "There are still a few, who, like _thee_ and _me_, drink nothing but water."--_Gil Bias cor._ "Thus, 'I _shall_ fall,'--'Thou _shalt_ love thy neighbour,'--'He _shall_ be rewarded,'--express no resolution on the part of _me, thee_, or _him_." Or better:--"on the part of _the persons signified by the nominatives, I, Thou, He_."--_Lennie and Bullions cor._ "So saucy with the hand of _her_ here--what's her name?"--_Shak. cor._ "All debts are cleared between you and _me_."--_Id._ "Her price is paid, and she is sold like _thee_."--HARRISON'S _E. Lang._, p. 172. "Search through all the most flourishing _eras_ of Greece."--_Dr.

Brown cor._ "The family of the _Rudolphs_ has been long distinguished."--_The Friend cor._ "It will do well enough for you and _me_."--_Edgeworth cor._ "The public will soon discriminate between him who is the sycophant, and _him_ who is the teacher."--_Chazotte cor._ "We are still much at a loss _to determine whom_ civil power belongs to."--_Locke cor._ "What do you call it? and _to whom_ does it belong?"--_Collier cor._ "He had received no lessons from the _Socrateses_, the _Platoes_, and the _Confuciuses_ of the age."--_Haller cor._ "I cannot tell _whom_ to compare them to."--_Bunyan cor._ "I see there was some resemblance betwixt this good man and _me_."--_Id._ "They, by those means, have brought themselves into the hands and house of I do not know _whom_."--_Id._ "But at length she said, there was a great deal of difference between Mr. Cotton and _us_."--_Hutch. Hist. cor._ "So you must ride on horseback after _us_."--_Mrs. Gilpin cor._ "A separation must soon take place between our minister and _me_,"--_Werter cor._ "When she exclaimed on Hastings, you, and _me_."--_Shak. cor._ "To _whom_? to thee? What art thou?"--_Id._ "That they should always bear the certain marks _of him from whom_ they came."--_Bp. Butler cor._

"This life has joys for you and _me_, And joys that riches ne'er could buy."--_Burns cor._

UNDER THE NOTE.--OF TIME OR MEASURE.

"Such as almost every child, ten years old, knows."--_Town cor._ "_Four months' schooling_ will carry any industrious scholar, of ten or twelve years _of age_, completely through this book."--_Id._ "A boy of six years _of age_ may be taught to speak as correctly, as Cicero did before the Roman senate."--_Webster cor._ "A lad about twelve years old, who was taken captive by the Indians."--_Id._ "Of nothing else _than_ that individual white figure of five inches _in length_, which is before him."--_Campbell cor._ "Where lies the fault, that boys of eight or ten years _of age_ are with great difficulty made to understand any of its principles?"--_Guy cor._ "Where language three centuries old is employed."--_Booth cor._ "Let a gallows be made, of fifty cubits _in height_." Or: "Let a gallows _fifty cubits high_ be made."--_Bible cor._ "I say to this child, nine years old, 'Bring me that hat.' He hastens, and brings it me."--_Osborn cor._ "'He laid a floor, twelve feet long, and nine feet wide:' that is, _the floor was_ long _to_ the extent of twelve feet, and wide _to the extent_ of nine feet."--_Merchant cor._ "The Goulah people are a tribe of about fifty thousand _in strength_." Or: "The Goulah people are a tribe about fifty thousand strong."--_Examiner cor._

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE VIII; NOM. ABSOLUTE.

"_He_ having ended his discourse, the a.s.sembly dispersed."--_Inst. of E.

G._, p. 190. "_I_ being young, they deceived me."--_Ib._, p. 279. "_They_ refusing to comply, I withdrew."--_Ib._ "_Thou_ being present, he would not tell what he knew."--_Ib._ "The child is lost; and _I_, whither shall I go?"--_Ib._ "_O_ happy _we!_ surrounded with so many blessings."--_Ib._ "'_Thou_ too! Brutus, my son!' cried Caesar, overcome."--_Ib._ "_Thou!_ Maria! and so late! and who is thy companion?"--_Mirror cor._ "How swiftly our time pa.s.ses away! and ah! _we_, how little concerned to improve it!"--_Greenleaf's False Syntax, Gram._, p. 47.

"There all thy gifts and graces we display, _Thou_, only _thou_, directing all our way."--_Pope, Dunciad_.

CHAPTER IV.--ADJECTIVES.

CORRECTIONS UNDER THE NOTES TO RULE IX.

UNDER NOTE I.--OF AGREEMENT.

"I am not recommending _this_ kind of sufferings to your liking."--_Sherlock cor._ "I have not been to London _these_ five years."--_Webster cor._ "_Verbs of this kind_ are more expressive than their radicals."--_Dr. Murray cor._ "Few of us would be less corrupted than kings are, were we, like them, beset with flatterers, and poisoned with _those_ vermin."--_Kames cor._ "But it seems _these_ literati had been very ill rewarded for their ingenious labours."--_R. Random cor._ "If I had not left off troubling myself about _things of that kind_."--_Swift cor._ "For _things of this sort_ are usually joined to the most noted fortune."--_Bacon cor._ "The nature of _those_ riches and _that_ long-suffering, is, to lead to repentance."--_Barclay cor._ "I fancy _it is this_ kind of G.o.ds, _that_ Horace mentions."--_Addison cor._ "During _those_ eight days, they are prohibited from touching the skin."--_Hope of Is. cor._ "Besides, he had _but a small quant.i.ty of_ provisions left for his army."--_Goldsmith cor._ "Are you not ashamed to have no other thoughts than _those_ of ama.s.sing wealth, and of acquiring glory, credit, and dignities?"--_Murray's Sequel_, p. 115. "It _distinguishes_ still more remarkably the feelings of the former from _those_ of the latter."--_Kames cor._ "And _these_ good tidings of the reign shall be published through all the world."--_Campbell cor._ "_These_ twenty years have I been with thee."--_Gen. cor._ "In _this_ kind of expressions, some words seem to be understood."--_W. Walker cor._ "He thought _this_ kind of excesses indicative of greatness."--_Hunt cor._ "_This_ sort of fellows _is_ very numerous." Or thus: "_Fellows of this sort_ are very numerous."--_Spect.

cor._ "Whereas _men of this sort_ cannot give account of their faith." Or: "Whereas _these men_ cannot give account of their faith."--_Barclay cor._ "But the question is, whether _those are_ the words."--_Id._ "So that _expressions of this sort_ are not properly optative."--_R. Johnson cor._ "Many things are not _such as_ they appear to be."--_Sanborn cor._ "So that _all_ possible means are used."--_Formey cor._

"We have strict statutes, and most biting laws, Which for _these_ nineteen years we have let sleep."--_Shak. cor._

"They could not speak, and so I left them both, To bear _these_ tidings to the b.l.o.o.d.y king."--_Shak. cor._

UNDER NOTE II.--OF FIXED NUMBERS.

"Why, I think she cannot be above six _feet_ two inches high."--_Spect.

cor._ "The world is pretty regular for about forty _rods_ east and ten west."--_Id._ "The standard being more than two _feet_ above it."--_Bacon cor._ "Supposing, among other things, _that_ he saw two suns, and two _Thebeses_."--_Id._ "On the right hand we go into a parlour _thirty-three feet_ by _thirty-nine_."--_Sheffield cor._ "Three _pounds_ of gold went to one shield."--_1 Kings cor._ "Such an a.s.semblage of men as there appears to have been at that _session_."--_The Friend cor._ "And, truly, he _has_ saved me _from_ this _labour_."--_Barclay cor._ "Within _these_ three _miles_ may you see it coming."--_Shak. cor._ "Most of the churches, not all, had one _ruling elder or more_."--_Hutch. cor._ "While a Minute Philosopher, not six _feet_ high, attempts to dethrone the Monarch of the universe."--_Berkley cor._ "The wall is ten _feet_ high."--_Harrison cor._ "The stalls must be ten _feet_ broad."--_Walker cor._ "A close prisoner in a room twenty _feet_ square, being at the north side of his chamber, is at liberty to walk twenty _feet_ southward, not to walk twenty _feet_ northward."--_Locke cor._ "Nor, after all this _care_ and industry, did they think themselves qualified."--_C. Orator cor._ "No _fewer_ than thirteen _Gypsies_ were condemned at one Suffolk _a.s.size_, and executed."--_Webster cor._ "The king was pet.i.tioned to appoint _one person or more_."--_Mrs. Macaulay cor._ "He carries weight! he rides a race! 'Tis for a thousand _pounds_."--_Cowper cor._ "They carry three _tiers_ of guns at the head, and at the stern, _two_ tiers"--_Joh. Dict. cor._ "The verses consist of two _sorts_ of rhymes."--_Formey cor._ "A present of forty _camel-loads_ of the most precious things of Syria."--_Wood's Dict. cor._ "A large grammar, that shall extend to every _minutia_"--_S. Barrett cor._

"So many spots, like naeves on Venus' soil, One _gem_ set off with _many a glitt'ring_ foil."--_Dryden cor._

"For, _off the end, a double_ handful It had devour'd, it was so manful."--_Butler cor._

UNDER NOTE III.--OF RECIPROCALS.

"That _shall_ and _will_ might be subst.i.tuted _one for the other_."--_Priestley cor._ "We use not _shall_ and _will_ promiscuously _the one for the other_."--_Brightland cor._ "But I wish to distinguish the three high ones from _one an_ other also."--_Fowle cor._ "Or on some other relation which two objects bear to _each other_."--_Blair cor._ "Yet the two words lie so near to _each other_ in meaning, that, in the present case, _perhaps either_ of them would have been sufficient."--_Id._ "Both orators use great liberties _in their treatment of each other_."--_Id._ "That greater separation of the two s.e.xes from _each other_."--_Id._ "Most of whom live remote from _one an other_."--_Webster cor._ "Teachers like to see their pupils polite to _one an other_"--_Id._ "In a little time, he and I must keep company with _each other_ only."--_Spect. cor._ "Thoughts and circ.u.mstances crowd upon _one an other_."--_Kames cor._ "They cannot _perceive_ how the ancient Greeks could understand _one an other_."--_Lit.

Conv. cor._ "The poet, the patriot, and the prophet, vied with _one an other_ in his breast."--_Hazlitt cor._ "Athamas and Ino loved _each other_."--_C. Tales cor._ "Where two things are compared or contrasted _one with the other_." Or: "Where two things, are compared or contrasted with _each other_."--_Blair and Mur. cor._ "In the cla.s.sification of words, almost all writers differ from _one an other_."--_Bullions cor._

"I will not trouble thee, my child. Farewell; We'll no more meet; _we'll_ no more see _each other_."--_Shak. cor._

UNDER NOTE IV.--OF COMPARATIVES.

"_Errors_ in education should be less indulged than any _others_."--_Locke cor._ "This was less his case than any _other_ man's that ever wrote."--_Pref. to Waller cor._ "This trade enriched some _other_ people more than it enriched them."--_Mur. cor._ "The Chaldee alphabet, in which the Old Testament has reached us, is more beautiful than any _other_ ancient character known."--_Wilson cor._ "The Christian religion gives a more lovely character of G.o.d, than any _other_ religion ever did."--_Murray cor._ "The temple of Cholula was deemed more holy than any _other_ in New Spain."--_Robertson cor._ "Cibber grants it to be a better poem of its kind than _any other that_ ever was _written_"--_Pope cor._ "Shakspeare is more faithful to the true language of nature, than any _other_ writer."--_Blair cor._ "One son I had--one, more than all my _other_ sons, the strength of Troy." Or: "One son I had--one, _the most of all my sons_, the strength of Troy."--_Cowper cor._ "Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his _other_ children, because he was the son of his old age."--_Bible cor._

UNDER NOTE V.--OF SUPERLATIVES.

"Of _all simpletons_, he was the greatest"--_Nutting cor._ "Of _all beings_, man has certainly the greatest reason for grat.i.tude."--_Id._ "This lady is _prettier than any_ of her sisters."--_Peyton cor._ "The relation which, of all _the cla.s.s_, is by far the most fruitful of tropes, I have not yet mentioned."--_Blair cor._ "He studied Greek the most of _all n.o.blemen_."--_W. Walker cor._ "And indeed that was the qualification _which was_ most wanted at that time."--_Goldsmith cor._ "Yet we deny that the knowledge of him as outwardly crucified, is the best of all knowledge of him."--_Barclay cor._ "Our ideas of numbers are, of all _our conceptions_, the most accurate and distinct"--_Duncan cor._ "This indeed is, of all _cases, the one in which_ it _is_ least necessary to name the agent"--_J.

Q. Adams cor._ "The period to which you have arrived, is perhaps the most critical and important moment of your lives."--_Id._ "Perry's royal octavo is esteemed the best of _all the p.r.o.nouncing dictionaries_ yet known."--_D.

H. Barnes cor._ "This is the tenth persecution, and, of all the _ten_ the most b.l.o.o.d.y."--_Sammes cor._ "The English tongue is the most susceptible of sublime imagery, of _all the languages_ in the world."--_Bucke cor._ "Of _all writers_ whatever, Homer is universally allowed to have had the greatest Invention."--_Pope cor._ "In a version of this particular work, which, _more than_ any other, seems to require a venerable, antique cast."--_Id._ "Because I think him the _best-informed_ naturalist _that_ has ever written."--_Jefferson cor._ "Man is capable of being the most social of _all animals_."--_Sheridan cor._ "It is, of all _signs_ (or _expressions_) that which most moves us."--_Id._ "Which, of all _articles_, is the most necessary."--_Id._

"Quoth he, 'This gambol thou advisest, Is, of all _projects_, the unwisest.'"--_S. Butler cor._

UNDER NOTE VI.--OF INCLUSIVE TERMS.

"Noah and his family _were the only antediluvians_ who _survived_ the flood."--_Webster cor._ "I think it superior to any _other grammar_ that we have yet had."--_Blair cor._ "We have had no _other_ grammarian who has employed so much labour and _judgement_ upon our native language, as _has_ the author of these volumes."--_British Critic cor._ "_Those_ persons feel _most for_ the distresses of others, who have experienced distresses themselves."--_L. Murray cor._ "Never was any _other_ people so much infatuated as the Jewish nation."--_Id. et al. cor._ "No _other_ tongue is so full of connective particles as the Greek."--_Blair cor._ "Never _was sovereign_ so much beloved by the people." Or: "_Never was any other_ sovereign so much beloved by _his_ people."--_L. Murray cor._ "Nothing _else_ ever affected her so much as this misconduct of her child."--_Id. et al. cor._ "Of all the figures of speech, _no other_ comes so near to painting as _does_ metaphor."--_Blair et al. cor._ "I know _no other writer_ so happy in his metaphors as _is_ Mr. Addison."--_Blair cor._ "Of all the English authors, none is _more_ happy in his metaphors _than_ Addison."--_Jamieson cor._ "Perhaps no _other_ writer in the world was ever so frugal of his words as Aristotle."--_Blair and Jamieson cor._ "Never was any _other_ writer so happy in that concise _and_ spirited style, as Mr.

Pope."--_Blair cor._ "In the harmonious structure and disposition of _his_ periods, no _other_ writer whatever, ancient or modern, equals Cicero."--_Blair and Jamieson cor._ "Nothing _else_ delights me so much as the works of nature."--_L. Mur. cor._ "No person was ever _more_ perplexed _than_ he has been to-day."--_Id._ "In _no other_ case are writers so apt to err, as in the position of the word _only_."--_Maunder cor._ "For nothing is _more_ tiresome _than_ perpetual uniformity."--_Blair cor._

"_Naught else sublimes the spirit, sets it free, Like_ sacred and soul-moving poesy."--_Sheffield cor._

UNDER NOTE VII.--EXTRA COMPARISONS.

"How much _better are ye_ than the fowls!"--_Bible cor._ "Do not thou hasten above the Most _High_."--_Esdras cor._ "This word, PEER, is princ.i.p.ally used for the n.o.bility of the realm."--_Cowell cor._ "Because the same is not only most _generally_ received, &c."--_Barclay cor._ "This is, I say, not the best and most _important_ evidence."--_Id._ "Offer unto G.o.d thanksgiving, and pay thy vows unto the Most _High_."--_The Psalter cor._ "The holy place of the tabernacle of the Most _High_."--_Id._ "As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first _great_ lesson that should be taught them, is, to admire frugality."--_Goldsmith cor._ "More _general_ terms are put for such as are more restricted."--_Rev. J. Brown cor._ "This, _this_ was the unkindest cut of all."--_Enfield's Speaker_, p.

353. "To take the basest and most _squalid_ shape."--_Shak. cor._ "I'll forbear: _I have_ fallen out with my more _heady_ will."--_Id._ "The power of the Most _High_ guard thee from sin."--_Percival cor._ "Which t.i.tle had been more _true_, if the dictionary had been in Latin and _Welsh_."--_Verstegan cor._ "The waters are frozen sooner and harder, than further upward, within the inlands."--_Id._ "At every descent, the worst may become more _depraved_."--_Mann cor._

"Or as a moat defensive to a house Against the envy of less _happy_ lands."--_Shak. cor._

"A dreadful quiet felt, and _worse by_ far Than arms, a sullen interval of war."--_Dryden cor._