The Grammar of English Grammars, page 497 by Gould Brown
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ometimes throw a passing cloud over the bright hour of gaiety."--_Kirkham's Elocution_, p. 178. "To criticize, is to discover errors; and to crystalize implies to freeze or congele."--Red Book, p. 68. "The affectation of using the preterite instead of the participle, is peculiarly aukward; as, he has came."--_Priestley's Grammar_, p. 125. "They are moraly responsible for their individual conduct."--_Cardell's El. Gram._, p. 21. "An engine of sixty horse power, is deemed of equal force with a team of sixty horses."--Red Book, p. 113. "This, at fourpence per ounce, is two shillings and fourpence a week, or six pounds, one shining and four pence a year."--_Ib._, p. 122. "The tru meening of parliament iz a meeting of barons or peers."--_Webster's Essays_, p. 276. "Several authorities seem at leest to favor this opinion."--_Ib._, p. 277. "That iz, az I hav explained the tru primitiv meening of the word."--_Ib._, p. 276. "The lords are peers of the relm; that iz, the ancient prescriptiv judges or barons."--_Ib._, p. 274.
"Falshood is folly, and 'tis just to own The fault committed; this was mine alone." --_Pope, Odys._, B. xxii, l. 168.
EXERCISE VIII--MIXED ERRORS.
"A second verb so nearly synonimous with the first, is at best superfluous."--_Churchill's Gram._, p. 332. "Indicate it, by some mark opposite [to] the word misspelt."--_Abbott's Teacher_, p. 74. "And succesfully controling the tendencies of mind."--_Ib._, p. 24. "It [the Monastick Life] looks very like what we call Childrens-Play."--[LESLIE'S] Right of Tythes, p. 236. "It seems rather lik Playing of Booty, to Please those Fools and Knaves."--_Ib._, Pref., p. vi. "And first I Name Milton, only for his Name, lest the Party should say, that I had not Cousider'd his Performance against Tythes."--_Ib._, p. iv. "His Fancy was too Predominant for his Judgment. His Talent lay so much in Satyr that he hated Reasoning."--_Ib._, p. iv. "He has thrown away some of his Railery against Tythes, and the Church then u