The Grammar of English Grammars, page 388 by Gould Brown
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s."--_Brightland's Gram._, p. 151.
PROMISCUOUS ERRORS RESPECTING CAPITALS.
LESSON I.--MIXED.
"Come, gentle spring, Ethereal mildness, come."--_Gardiner's Music of Nature_, p. 411.
[FORMULES.--1. Not proper, because the word spring begins with a small letter. But, according to Rule 10th, "The name of an object personified, when it conveys an idea strictly individual, should begin with a capital." Therefore "Spring" should here begin with a capital S.
2. Not proper again, because the word Ethereal begins with a capital E, for which there appears to be neither rule nor reason. But, according to Rule 16th. "Capitals are improper whenever there is not some special rule or reason for their use." Therefore, "ethereal" should here begin with a small letter.]
As, "He is the Cicero of his age; he is reading the lives of the Twelve Cæsars."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 36. "In the History of Henry the fourth, by father Daniel, we are surprized at not finding him the great man."--_Priestley's Gram._, p. 151. "In the history of Henry the fourth, by Father Daniel, we are surprised at not finding him the great man."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 172; _Ingersoll's_, 187; _Fisk's_, 99. "Do not those same poor peasants use the Lever and the Wedge, and many other instruments?"--Murray, 288; from Harris, 293. "Arithmetic is excellent for the gauging of Liquors; Geometry, for the measuring of Estates; Astronomy, for the making of Almanacks; and Grammar, perhaps, for the drawing of Bonds and Conveyances."--_Harris's Hermes_, p. 295. "The wars of Flanders, written in Latin by Famianus Strada, is a book of some note."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 364. "William is a noun.--why? was is a verb.--why? a is an article.--why? very is an adverb.--why?" &c.--_Merchant's School Gram._, p. 20. "In the beginning was the word, and that word was with God, and God was that word."--_Gwilt's Saxon Gram._, p. 49. "The greeks are numerous in thes