The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown (read books for money TXT) 📖

other people, besides them." Or, "This trade enriched some others more than it did them."

NOTE XV.—Participial adjectives retain the termination, but not the government of participles; when, therefore, they are followed by the objective case, a preposition must be inserted to govern it: as, "The man who is most sparing of his words, is generally most deserving of attention."

NOTE XVI.—When the figure of any adjective affects the syntax and sense of the sentence, care must be taken to give to the word or words that form, simple or compound, which suits the true meaning and construction. Examples: "He is forehead bald, yet he is clean."—FRIENDS' BIBLE: Lev., xiii, 41. Say, "forehead-bald.,"—ALGER'S BIBLE, and SCOTT'S. "From such phrases as, 'New England scenery,' convenience requires the omission of the hyphen."—Sanborn's Gram., p. 89. This is a false notion. Without the hyphen, the phrase properly means, "New scenery in England;" but New-England scenery is scenery in New England. "'Many coloured wings,' means many wings which are coloured; but 'many-coloured wings' means wings of many colours."—Blair's Gram., p. 116.

IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION. FALSE SYNTAX UNDER RULE IX. EXAMPLES UNDER NOTE I.—AGREEMENT OF ADJECTIVES.

"I am not recommending these kind of sufferings to your liking."—BP.
SHERLOCK: Lowth's Gram., p. 87.

[FORMULE.—Not proper, because the adjective these is plural, and does not agree with its noun kind, which is singular. But, according to Note 1st under Rule 9th: "Adjectives that imply unity or plurality, must agree with their nouns in number." Therefore, these should be this; thus, "I am not recommending this kind of sufferings."]

"I have not been to London this five years."—Webster's Philos. Gram., p. 152. "These kind of verbs are more expressive than their radicals."—Dr. Murray's Hist. of Lang., Vol. ii, p. 163. "Few of us would be less corrupted than kings are, were we, like them, beset with flatterers, and poisoned with that vermin."—Art of Thinking, p. 66. "But it seems this literati had been very ill rewarded for their ingenious labours."—Roderick Random, Vol. ii, p. 87. "If I had not left off troubling myself about those kind of things."—Swift. "For these sort of things are usually join'd to the most noted fortune."—Bacon's Essays, p. 101. "The nature of that riches and long-suffering is, to lead to repentance."—Barclay's Works, iii, 380. "I fancy they are these kind of gods, which Horace mentions."—Addison, on Medals, p. 74. "During that eight days they are prohibited from touching the skin."—Hope of Israel, p. 78. "Besides, he had not much provisions left for his army."—Goldsmith's Greece, i, 86. "Are you not ashamed to have no other thoughts than that of amassing wealth, and of acquiring glory, credit, and dignities?"—Ib., p. 192. "It distinguisheth still more remarkably the feelings of the former from that of the latter."—Kames, El. of Crit., Vol. i, p. xvii. "And this good tidings of the reign shall be published through all the world."—Campbell's Gospels, Matt., xxiv, 14. "This twenty years have I been with thee."—Gen., xxxi, 38. "In these kind of expressions some words seem to be understood."—Walker's Particles, p. 179. "He thought these kind of excesses indicative of greatness."—Hunt's Byron, p. 117. "These sort of fellows are very numerous."—Spect., No. 486. "Whereas these sort of men cannot give account of their faith."—Barclay's Works, i, 444. "But the question is, whether that be the words."—Ib., iii, 321. "So that these sort of Expressions are not properly Optative."—Johnson's Gram. Com., p. 276. "Many things are not that which they appear to be."—Sanborn's Gram., p. 176. "So that every possible means are used."—Formey's Belles-Lettres, p. iv.

   "We have strict statutes, and most biting laws,
    Which for this nineteen years we have let sleep."—Shak.

    "They could not speak; and so I left them both,
    To bear this tidings to the bloody king."—Id., Richard III.

UNDER NOTE II.—OF FIXED NUMBERS.

"Why, I think she cannot be above six foot two inches high."—Spect., No. 533. "The world is pretty regular for about forty rod east and ten west."—Ib., No. 535. "The standard being more than two foot above it."—BACON: Joh. Dict., w. Standard. "Supposing (among other Things) he saw two Suns, and two Thebes."—Bacon's Wisdom, p. 25. "On the right hand we go into a parlour thirty three foot by thirty nine."—Sheffield's Works, ii, 258. "Three pound of gold went to one shield."—1 Kings, x, 17. "Such an assemblage of men as there appears to have been at that sessions."—The Friend, x, 389. "And, truly, he hath saved me this pains."—Barclay's Works, ii, 266. "Within this three mile may you see it coming."—SHAK.: Joh. Dict., w. Mile. "Most of the churches, not all, had one or more ruling elder."—Hutchinson's Hist. of Mass., i, 375. "While a Minute Philosopher, not six foot high, attempts to dethrone the Monarch of the universe."—Berkley's Alciphron, p. 151. "The wall is ten foot high."—Harrison's Gram., p. 50. "The stalls must be ten foot broad."—Walker's Particles, p. 201. "A close prisoner in a room twenty foot square, being at the north side of his chamber, is at liberty to walk twenty foot southward, not to walk twenty foot northward."—LOCKE: Joh. Dict., w. Northward. "Nor, after all this pains and industry, did they think themselves qualified."—Columbian Orator, p. 13. "No less than thirteen gypsies were condemned at one Suffolk assizes, and executed."—Webster's Essays, p. 333. "The king was petitioned to appoint one, or more, person, or persons."—MACAULAY: Priestley's Gram., p. 194. "He carries weight! he rides a race! 'Tis for a thousand pound!"—Cowper's Poems, i, 279. "They carry three tire of guns at the head, and at the stern there are two tire of guns."—Joh. Dict., w. Galleass. "The verses consist of two sort of rhymes."—Formey's Belles-Lettres, p. 112. "A present of 40 camel's load of the most precious things of Syria."—Wood's Dict., Vol. i, p. 162. "A large grammar, that shall extend to every minutiæ."—S. Barrett's Gram., Tenth Ed., Pref., p. iii.

   "So many spots, like næves on Venus' soil,
    One jewel set off with so many foil."—Dryden.

    "For, of the lower end, two handful
    It had devour'd, it was so manful."—Hudibras, i, 365.

UNDER NOTE III.—OF RECIPROCALS.

"That shall and will might be substituted for one another."—Priestley's Gram., p. 131. "We use not shall and will promiscuously for one another."—Brightland's Gram., p. 110. "But I wish to distinguish the three high ones from each other also."—Fowle's True Eng. Gram., p. 13. "Or on some other relation, which two objects bear to one another."—Blair's Rhet., p. 142. "Yet the two words lie so near to one another in meaning, that in the present case, any one of them, perhaps, would have been sufficient."—Ib., p. 203. "Both orators use great liberties with one another."—Ib., p. 244. "That greater separation of the two sexes from one another."—Ib., p. 466. "Most of whom live remote from each other."—Webster's Essays, p. 39. "Teachers like to see their pupils polite to each other."—Webster's El. Spelling-Book, p. 28. "In a little time, he and I must keep company with one another only."—Spect., No. 474. "Thoughts and circumstances crowd upon each other."—Kames, El. of Crit., i, 32. "They cannot see how the ancient Greeks could understand each other."—Literary Convention, p. 96. "The spirit of the poet, the patriot, and the prophet, vied with each other in his breast."—Hazlitt's Lect., p. 112. "Athamas and Ino loved one another."—Classic Tales, p. 91. "Where two things are compared or contrasted to one another."—Blair's Rhet., p. 119. "Where two things are compared, or contrasted, with one another."—Murray's Gram., Vol. i, p. 324. "In the classification of words, almost all writers differ from each other."—Bullions, E. Gram., p. iv.

   "I will not trouble thee, my child. Farewell;
    We'll no more meet; no more see one another."—Shak. Lear.

UNDER NOTE IV.—OF COMPARATIVES.

"Errours in Education should be less indulged than any."—Locke, on Ed., p. iv. "This was less his case than any man's that ever wrote."—Pref. to Waller. "This trade enriched some people more than it enriched them." [378]—Murray's Gram., Vol. i, p. 215. "The Chaldee alphabet, in which the Old Testament has reached us, is more beautiful than any ancient character known."—Wilson's Essay, p. 5. "The Christian religion gives a more lovely character of God, than any religion ever did."—Murray's Key, p. 169. "The temple of Cholula was deemed more holy than any in New Spain."—Robertson's America, ii, 477. "Cibber grants it to be a better poem of its kind than ever was writ."—Pope. "Shakspeare is more faithful to the true language of nature, than any writer."—Blair's Rhet., p. 468. "One son I had—one, more than all my sons, the strength of Troy."—Cowper's Homer. "Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age."—Gen., xxxvii, 3.

UNDER NOTE V.—OF SUPERLATIVES.

"Of all other simpletons, he was the greatest."—Nutting's English Idioms. "Of all other beings, man has certainly the greatest reason for gratitude."—Ibid., Gram., p. 110. "This lady is the prettiest of all her sisters."—Peyton's Elements of Eng. Lang., p. 39. "The relation which, of all others, is by far the most fruitful of tropes, I have not yet mentioned."—Blair's Rhet., p. 141. "He studied Greek the most of any nobleman."—Walker's Particles, p. 231. "And indeed that was the qualification of all others most wanted at that time."—Goldsmith's Greece, ii, 35. "Yet we deny that the knowledge of him, as outwardly crucified, is the best of all other knowledge of him."—Barclay's Works, i, 144. "Our ideas of numbers are of all others the most accurate and distinct."—Duncan's Logic, p. 35. "This indeed is of all others the case when it can be least necessary to name the agent."—J. Q. Adams's Rhet., i, 231. "The period, to which you have arrived, is perhaps the most critical and important of any moment of your lives."—Ib., i, 394. "Perry's royal octavo is esteemed the best of any pronouncing Dictionary yet known."—Red Book, p. x. "This is the tenth persecution, and of all the foregoing, the most bloody."—Sammes's Antiquities, Chap. xiii. "The English tongue is the most susceptible of sublime imagery, of any language in the world."—See Bucke's Gram., p. 141. "Homer is universally allowed to have had the greatest Invention of any writer whatever."—Pope's Preface to Homer. "In a version of this particular work, which most of any other seems to require a venerable antique cast."—Ib. "Because I think him the best informed of any naturalist who has ever written."— Jefferson's Notes, p. 82. "Man is capable of being the most social of any animal."—Sheridan's Elocution, p. 145. "It is of all others that which most moves us."—Ib., p. 158. "Which of all others, is the most necessary article."—Ib., p. 166.

   "Quoth he 'this gambol thou advisest,
    Is, of all others, the unwisest.'"—Hudibras, iii, 316.

UNDER NOTE VI.—INCLUSIVE TERMS. "Noah and his family outlived all the people who lived before the flood."—Webster's El. Spelling-Book, p. 101. "I think it superior to any work of that nature we have yet had."—Dr. Blair's Rec. in Murray's Gram., Vol. ii, p. 300. "We have had no grammarian who has employed so much labour and judgment upon our native language, as the author of these volumes."—British Critic, ib., ii, 299. "No persons feel so much the distresses of others, as they who have experienced distress themselves."—Murray's Key, 8vo., p. 227. "Never was any people so much infatuated as the Jewish nation."—Ib., p. 185; Frazee's Gram., p. 135. "No tongue is so full of connective particles as the Greek."—Blair's Rhet., p. 85. "Never sovereign was so much beloved by the people."—Murray's Exercises, R. xv, p. 68. "No sovereign was ever so much beloved by the people."—Murray's Key, p. 202. "Nothing ever affected her so much as this misconduct of her child."—Ib., p. 203; Merchant's, 195. "Of all the figures of speech, none comes so near to painting as metaphor."—Blair's Rhet., p. 142; Jamieson's, 149. "I know none so happy in his metaphors as Mr. Addison."—Blair's Rhet., p. 150. "Of all the English authors, none is so happy in his metaphors as Addison."—Jamieson's, Rhet., p. 157. "Perhaps no writer in the world was ever so frugal of his words as Aristotle."—Blair, p. 177; Jamieson, 251. "Never was any writer so happy in that concise spirited style as Mr. Pope."—Blair's Rhet., p. 403. "In the harmonious structure and disposition of periods, no writer whatever, ancient or modern, equals Cicero."—Blair, 121; Jamieson, 123. "Nothing delights me so much as the works of nature."—Murray's Gram., Vol. i, p. 150. "No person was ever so perplexed as he has been to-day."—Murray's Key, ii, 216. "In no case are writers so apt to err as in the position of the word only."—Maunder's Gram., p. 15. "For nothing is so tiresome as perpetual uniformity."—Blair's Rhet., p. 102.

   "No writing lifts exalted man so high,
    As sacred and soul-moving poesy."—Sheffield.

UNDER NOTE VII.—EXTRA COMPARISONS.

"How much more are ye better than the fowls!"—Luke, xii, 24. "Do not thou hasten above the Most Highest."—2 Esdras, iv, 34. "This word peer is most principally used for the