| 单词 | grammarian |
| 例句 | This “rule” was popular for half a century, until leading grammarians debunked it. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Some grammarians believe that while, which comes from an Anglo-Saxon word meaning “time,” should be used only to mean “during the time that.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But it’s not true that if one kind of grammarian is right then the other kind of grammarian is wrong. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Theodore Bernstein, The Careful Writer: “There is nothing wrong with splitting an infinitive... except that eighteenth- and nineteenth- century grammarians, for one reason or another, frowned on it.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z At any rate, this is a rule that modern grammarians have long tried to get us out from under. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z To appreciate this, one has to get straight what the subjunctive is, because most people, including traditional grammarians, are confused about it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Based on these mini-experiments, modern grammarians have sorted words into grammatical categories that sometimes differ from the traditional pigeonholes. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It was just a failure of the traditional grammarians to distinguish categories from functions that blinded them to the realization that a preposition could take a clause, not just a noun phrase, as its object. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Some grammarians use the analogy of stitching: punctuation as the basting that holds the fabric of language in shape. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z British grammarians will concede that sometimes the extra comma prevents confusion, as when there are other ands in the vicinity: I went to the chemist, Marks & Spencer, and NatWest. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z It is true that descriptive and prescriptive rules are different kinds of things and that descriptive and prescriptive grammarians are engaged in different kinds of activities. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In all but the most formal writing, some of the fussiest grammarians accept It’s me. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z On August 21, 1975, he notes, “Shakespeare’s text is always absurdly over-punctuated; generations of scholars have tried to turn him into a good grammarian.” Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z And then let us check that we know the rules of what modern grammarians call “possessive determiners” and “possessive pronouns” - none of which requires an apostrophe. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z The gender-neutral pronoun “they/them” went from a grammarian’s nightmare to a relatively unremarkable presence in Twitter bios and even in the Associated Press style book. What Has Changed Since “Transparent” Débuted, in 2014 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z “It’s a descriptor of your family who is participating in this experiment,” says the expert, apparently no grammarian. Review: ‘We Love You, Charlie Freeman,’ Kaitlyn Greenidge’s Debut Novel 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z The grammarian, widowed, was left with “without” and “after.” Dance Review: Claire Porter at Joe’s Pub 2014-04-30T20:47:09Z The grammarians at the Oxford Dictionaries website agree, noting that using "they" as a singular pronoun is "increasingly common in current English and is now widely accepted both in speech and in writing." Taylor Swift hits back at Princeton Review's 'bad grammar' claim 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z The book established Aciman as a poet of the drunken senses; this magazine described him as an “acute grammarian of desire.” “Find Me” Is a Shallow Sequel to “Call Me By Your Name” 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z And grammarians tend to be liberal, willing and often eager to promote common usage into acceptable speech. Why Weird Al's 'Word Crimes' Is English for Dummies 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z In Hades, the pit most tartarean’s Reserved for pedantic grammarians. Style Invitational: ’Hew ready? Verse for the rhythm-deaf 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The little book’s rules have often raised hackles among grammarians, and in recent years its detractors have been increasingly vocal, especially on the 50th anniversary of the book’s publication, in 2009. Maira Kalman’s Irreverent Pictures for the Grammar Bible 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z For the grammarians among us, the highlight of the spring will be Mary Norris' appearance at Writers Bloc at the Goethe Institut in Beverly Hills. Spring 2016 books preview: Literary events happening around L.A. 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z The vote involved more than 200 lexicographers, linguists, etymologists, historians, grammarians and others. Dialect Society Names Its Word of the Year: #blacklivesmatter 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z And while some grammarians may cry most foul, others are calling for the apostrophe’s dumb round head. Five Ways Punctuation Is Changing! 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Last week, we learned he’s a doting father, this week a grammarian. On 'Game of Thrones,' an Awkward Dinner and a Stony Encounter 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z The grammarians’ ball features drama, As at last year’s big Grammararama, Where one prof dressed for sin, Clad, it seems, only in A strategically placed Oxford comma. Style Invitational Week 1280: A la‘ugh’ a minute with our ‘air quotes’ contest 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z At The Disco, whose inventively placed ! really keeps grammarians on their toes. From Help! to Build A Rocket Boys!, exclamation marks rock! 2011-01-15T00:07:06Z That may be surprising – after all, I'm a journeyman grammarian. A plea for syntactical sanity on US National Grammar Day 2013-03-04T20:32:24Z Liberal grammarians would tell us we live in a democracy, not a kingdom of antiquated rules. Why Weird Al's 'Word Crimes' Is English for Dummies 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z This “gospel” was worldwide news — before skeptical papyrologists and grammarians, in one case drawing on the research of an amateur Coptic obsessive working in his Macomb, Mich., basement, showed it to be a complete fake. The Harvard Professor Who Told the World That Jesus Had a Wife 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z She's renowned for her precise, exquisite prose, but new research shows Jane Austen was a poor speller and erratic grammarian who got a big helping hand from her editor. Academic: Jane Austen had helping hand from editor 2010-10-23T18:16:00Z Dr. Doolots, quite literally a prescriptive grammarian, ministers to his patients’ sundry linguistic ills with bumbling manic energy. Luis Ávalos, Actor on ‘The Electric Company,’ Dies at 67 2014-01-28T04:38:52Z Other grammarians call this the English present subjunctive, and say that “if he were” is the past subjunctive. Would that it were so simple 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z The movie features a lineup of star grammarians, as much as there are star grammarians. For grammar geeks: 'Grammar Revolution' the documentary 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z Most dictionaries feature usage guides and and tips, though, like grammarians, not all agree. A plea for syntactical sanity on US National Grammar Day 2013-03-04T20:32:24Z In that sentence, some grammarians put a comma after the word sandwiches — that’s an Oxford comma — while some leave it out. King County Council votes unanimously for the Oxford comma 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z It’s considered wrong only because 200-plus years of grammarians have told us it is wrong, without solidly justifying that judgment. Opinion | ‘They’ has been a singular pronoun for centuries. Don’t let anyone tell you it’s wrong. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Punctilious as Mr. Richards may have been, he told the New York Times that there were many grammarians more “militant” than he. John Richards, bulwark for the apostrophe against grammatical ‘barbarians,’ dies at 97 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z That construction grates my grammarian soul because it is a misuse of the term “Catch-22.” Opinion | Readers critique The Post: A memorial that could be the first step of many toward a reckoning 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z To be completely candid, I found Simon’s intellectual posturing, rarefied vocabulary and grammarian cavils trying. Commentary: John Simon, Clive James and the future of criticism in our culture 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z They used singular “they” and “their,” as was the standard in English until Victorian-era grammarians shifted course and imposed “he” above all. A guide to how gender-neutral language is developing around the world 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z The demise of The Apostrophe Society itself - an apparent loss to grammarians everywhere - sparked a renewed defence of the punctuation mark. Do apostrophe's still matter? 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z When Eric Peterson gave his report as the official grammarian of this meeting, he spent most of his time pointing out words he liked: ephemeral, ruminate, affinity. At Toastmasters meetings, the criticism is constructive, the applause is enthusiastic and the benefits speak for themselves 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z With pre-emptive apologies to grammarians everywhere, today we ponder the following question: What do we mean by ‘we’? 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z There were also bots that acted as grammarians, making pedantic corrections to tweets, or simple gags like Robot J McCarthy, which sought out conversations using the word “communist” and replied with a nonsensical slogan. The charge of the chatbots: how do you tell who’s human online? 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z It depends, said Bryan A. Garner, a grammarian who is the author of “Garner’s Modern English Usage.” Trump Uses Random Uppercase Letters, but Should You? An Issue of Capital Importance 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z No, she was not a grammarian, she would answer. Barbara Adams Mowat, editor of authoritative editions of Shakespeare, dies at 83 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Without the accent mark, his own last name is bruised but not botched, though a Spanish grammarian would call it misspelled. Baseball Campaign Puts the Accent on Spanish Names 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z “There are people who think that the definition of a prescriptivist is a completely ill-informed armchair grammarian who just makes pronouncements on language without any knowledge of how words are actually used,” he says. How to Write Like Antonin Scalia 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z Onto this massive melange, teachers, grammarians and hobbyist reformers have tried for centuries to impose their ideas — and ideals — of spelling. A Brief History of English Spelling Reform 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z Lennon, as bad a political thinker as he was a grammarian, never learned this: Countries, meaning nation-states, are, for all their shortcoming and dangers, indispensable for making self-government possible and secure. After Paris, we should look to Chris Christie 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z It was one of the signs invented by the Greek grammarians of Alexandria in the second and third centuries BC to help people read the language. The Vocabularist: The peculiar names of punctuation marks - BBC News 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Though Warren insisted she wasn’t seeking the nation’s top job, political grammarians couldn’t help noticing that Warren spoke only in the present tense. Elizabeth Warren won’t be president. But the Senate may not be her final destination. 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z “God—whom I believe to be a strict grammarian as well as an Englishman—has punished me.” How to Write Like Antonin Scalia 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z And grammarians aren’t ready to give up their death grip on “they.” Latest News: Baltimore Curfew, Shinzo Abe, Transgender Pronouns 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z A millennium passed, and Byzantine grammarians were regretting that so little of her poetry had survived. How Gay Was Sappho? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Eleanor Gould was The New Yorker’s head grammarian and query proofreader. Confessions of a Comma Queen 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z In September, the university’s pronoun options were expanded yet again to include “they,” as grammarians have reminded naysayers that the English language is constantly evolving. A University Recognizes a Third Gender: Neutral 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z A grammarian would call that flub a fused participle—which sounds ominous, like what a coroner would write on the death certificate after a nude welding accident. How to Write Like Antonin Scalia 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z So Lynch’s non-speak in some ways is a blessing to the media, himself, and grammarians worldwide. Why Everyone Wins When Marshawn Lynch Doesn't Talk 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z But even after a century of nagging by prescriptive grammarians, the "who–whom" distinction remains tenuous in speech and informal writing. Steven Pinker: 10 'grammar rules' it's OK to break (sometimes) 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Grammar also has some intimidating terms, and grammarians throw them around constantly, but you don’t need to know them in order to use the language. Confessions of a Comma Queen 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z I wondered whether this was a policy shift or a rogue grammarian employee. A Grammar Lesson for the M.T.A. 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z It's like the Hunger Games, just for prescriptive grammarians. Bad taste reality TV? You ain't seen nothing yet 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Finally, the Telegraph brings news of a small but significant victory for grammarians. GCHQ cyber-spying row rumbles on 2013-06-09T04:23:41Z Old saws he had, although no antiquarian; And stiles corrected, yet was no grammarian. Curious Epitaphs 2012-04-26T02:00:22.397Z On the other hand, how vapid would seem to them the explanation, more literal but less emotional, of a "Talib" pedant or a frigid grammarian. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z Salon wrote about the decision, which will be widely discussed by linguists and grammarians for a while — and will elicit both relief and dread in caretakers of the language. SchoolBook: Testing Absurdities, Reading Worries and Robo-Grading 2012-04-23T12:19:59Z When the boy was old enough he was sent by his father to a grammar school in Florence, kept by Francesco of Urbino, a noted grammarian. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z The only other poem which has come down to us under Hesiod’s name is the Shield of Heracles, the opening verses of which are attributed by a nameless grammarian to the fourth book of Eoiai. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z It was north of the Alps that it parted company with the grammarians. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z And when I say, "All grammarians run," the distribution is narrowed still further. A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance 2012-03-23T02:00:40.930Z It was one of those questions to which, despite its form, an experienced Latin grammarian would have unhesitatingly prefixed the particle nonne. A Safety Match 2012-03-19T02:00:23.817Z Grufydd Roberts, a learned grammarian, distinguished himself by the publication of a valuable “Welsh Grammar,” which was printed at Milan, in 1567. A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation 2012-03-17T02:01:03.693Z HESYCHIUS, grammarian of Alexandria, probably flourished in the 5th century A.D. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z So too the digamma is called “Aeolic” by grammarians, and is found on Aeolic and Doric inscriptions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z They sound the same, and a grammarian would say, ‘What’s the difference?’ Ruth Barcan Marcus, Philosopher-Logician, Dies at 90 2012-03-13T22:27:18Z Exiled grammarians now found their shelter under the protection of the “literate tyrants” of Italy, and with their spoil of manuscripts enriched the libraries of Rome and Venice. Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 2012-02-22T03:00:23.620Z Grufydd Roberts, a learned grammarian, who was educated at the University of Sienna, in Italy, under the patronage of William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke. A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation 2012-03-17T02:01:03.693Z And yet if you wish your reader to know that you are a good grammarian, you will not be ashamed to revise your grammar and say, "I should have liked to go, but could not." How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction 2012-02-17T03:00:36.070Z The literary form which preserved the works of the great historians was unfortunately wanting, or was not sufficiently valued, in the case of the grammarians. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Upon my visit to this school, I must say I was surprised to find among the dirty ragged little negroes, which comprised it generally, a herd of geographers, historians, and grammarians. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z Alcuin was a grammarian; he taught from Priscian and Donatus, improved the eighth century Latin, and probably made Virgil and Cicero known in Gaul and Britain. Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 2012-02-22T03:00:23.620Z In the derivation of words, I found most of them defective; nor, indeed, were any of them good grammarians. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z Pope Honorius III., his immediate successor, went so far in this matter as to depose a bishop who had not read Donatus, the popular grammarian of the time. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z Hence doubtless the claim of Colophon to be the native city of Homer—a claim supported in the early times of Homeric learning by the Colophonian poet and grammarian Antimachus. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Borrow, as we shall see, knew many languages, and knew them well colloquially, but he was not a grammarian, and he could not write accurately in any one of the numerous tongues. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z The old grammarian quoted by Suetonius states that he was ruined in fortune through his intimacy with his noble friends. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z He was, as his American publishers say, poet, critic, dramatist, scholar, biologist, philosopher, novelist, philologist, and grammarian. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z It is not till about 170 B.C. that the grammarians Hellanicus and Xenon put forward the view that Homer was the author of the Iliad, but not of the Odyssey. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z What the grammarians called “tmesis,” the separation of the preposition from the verb with which it is compounded, is peculiar to Homer. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z The old poems were studied as repositories of the pure classical tongue and were estimated mainly from a grammarian's standpoint. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z Many of these are single lines, preserved by grammarians in illustration of old forms and usages of words, and thus are of little value in the way of illustrating his poetical or dramatic power. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Latin grammars were soon modelled upon it, and the attempt to translate the technical terms of the Greek grammarians into Latin was productive of numerous blunders which have been perpetuated to our own day. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Many persons who think themselves good grammarians put on their cards "The Misses Brown,"—"The Misses Smith." The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book 2011-11-13T03:00:12.183Z Against the theory which sees in Peisistratus the author of the first complete text of Homer we have to set the absolute silence of Herodotus, Thucydides, the orators and the Alexandrian grammarians. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z The grammarians of Baṣra and Kúfa, by whom the remains of ancient Arabian poetry were rescued from oblivion, arranged Collections of ancient poetry. and collected their material according to various principles. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z Most of these are single lines, preserved by grammarians as illustrative of the use of words. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Symbolic words, therefore, are what the Chinese grammarians call “empty words”—words, that is, which have been divested of their proper signification and serve a grammatical purpose only. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z He was the grandson of Elijah Levita, the famous Hebrew grammarian. Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ 2011-10-14T02:00:24.730Z In the later Byzantine times it was believed that Peisistratus was aided by seventy grammarians, of whom Zenedotus and Aristarchus were the chief. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Their names and laws were unknown to the Pre-islamic bards: the rules of prosody were first deduced from the ancient poems and systematised by the grammarian, Khalíl b. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z The fragments of his works are scanty and unimportant, and have been preserved by grammarians merely as illustrative of old forms of the language. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The explanation of figurative expressions, again, must be left to the rhetorician, and definition to the lexicographer; the grammarian has no more to do with them than he has with the canons of criticism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z The story of 360° in the Babylonian circle seems to start with Achilles Tatius, an Alexandrian grammarian of the second or third century A.D. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z The great Alexandrian grammarians had become figures in a new mythology. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z They knew something of English grammar; he did not teach it to them; he taught Greek grammar, and it is needless to say that they became good grammarians. The Story of a Life 2011-10-11T02:01:02.723Z Adrienne begged the grammarian not to be sparing of his advice, and, following it religiously, soon succeeded in correcting her faulty pronunciation. Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z The facts will be distorted by a false theory in regard to them, while they will certainly not be presented in a complete form if the grammarian is ignorant of the true theory they presuppose. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Mr. Stanbridge, the celebrated grammarian alluded to, was a highly learned man, and tutor to Sir Thomas Pope. Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. 2011-09-26T02:00:29.140Z Believe me, leave your productions as they are, use words which mean something, and laugh at the grammarians who enfeeble all your phrases with their purisms. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z The grammarian, the purist, the pernicketty stickler for trifles, is the deadly foe of good English, rich in idioms and racy of the soil. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z Whoever wrote the verses, my good Leonidas, is a matter which you all, as being grammarians of the highest reputation, are very capable of deciding. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z In fact, the old subdivision of grammar, inherited from the grammarians of Rome and Alexandria, must be given up and a new one put in its place. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z The young grammarian reduces the mass of words, that so threaten to confound his powers, to a few natural classes, and he conquers them separately with ease. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z And we’re curious to know what kind of rules those learned grammarians give. The Further Adventures of O'Neill in Holland 2011-07-20T02:00:17.027Z A word need not be joined to other words to form that complex which grammarians call a sentence. The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z Machon was either a Corinthian or Sicyonian by birth, living, however, in my own city of Alexandria; and he was the tutor of Aristophanes the grammarian, as far as comedy went. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z He has done so in this case, and we seem to know the grammarian in all his pedantry and exclusive devotion to a minute branch of human knowledge. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z As an exegete and biblical critic no less than as a grammarian he has left his abiding mark. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z When we got outside of her garden plot and had latched the gate behind us, I turned to wave our grammarian a graceful adieu. The Further Adventures of O'Neill in Holland 2011-07-20T02:00:17.027Z The grammarians call such an expression a tense indicating habit. The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb 2011-07-08T02:00:18.037Z Callimachus the grammarian said that a great book was equivalent to a great evil. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z A company of the grammarian’s disciples are bearing his coffin for burial on a tall mountain, the appropriate lofty place of sepulture for an elevated man. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z He was not a vain empiric, not a dry grammarian: he had learning, he had seen the world. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z Lilly, the grammarian, we find at Rhodes and at Rome, and the learned Pace at Padua. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The grammarians of that tongue say that this adds extension and emphasis to the sense of the verb. The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb 2011-07-08T02:00:18.037Z Connop Thirlwall was celebrated in his day as one of the best of English scholars; but no man was ever less of the mere grammarian. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z He was distinguished as a philosopher, astronomer, physician, and poet; but especially as a grammarian and commentator. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z His work was that of a grammarian, of a prosodist—in a word, that of a purist. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z In each case the grammarians began the battle, and after the rhetoricians had joined in, the former retired and stood on the benches, in order to watch the fortunes of the fray. The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z Indian grammarians carefully noted in what parts of the throat and mouth the different sounds of their language were made, and, for convenience, they systematized their ample alphabet on this admirable plan. St. Nicholas Vol. XIII, September, 1886, No. 11 An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks 2011-05-07T02:00:31.650Z If there be ghosts—blessed are the grammarians who invented a subjunctive mood—those of martyred students of science will one day haunt you, more terrible than 'an army with banners.' A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z Browning answered in a note that proved his fine scholarship, and called attention to the fact that this was the point in dispute which the grammarian had tried to settle. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z Malherbe's power or-237- message as a poet is of no concern here; in his r�le of grammarian and critic he accomplished certain important and widespread reforms in French poetry. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z At that time all the roads were thronged with grammarians, rhetoricians, philosophers, and theologians. The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z There was a curious fashion among certain grammarians and mathematicians of Old India which may be mentioned here. St. Nicholas Vol. XIII, September, 1886, No. 11 An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks 2011-05-07T02:00:31.650Z The very articles which the islanders were prepared to export to the states, if an inlet for them were permitted, were the articles which the foolish grammarian imagined they were importing. History of Prince Edward Island 2011-04-16T02:00:17.027Z It degrades the quiet intensity of “A Grammarian’s Funeral” to make the grammarian’s pupil, who is aiding in bearing his body up the mountain side, declaim against the world. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z His analysis and systematization of the figures were immediately accepted by the scholars and grammarians of his time, and have played a large part in French education ever since. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z Plato and other Greek philosophers, the Alexandrian grammarians, the scholiasts, the Roman Varro, and others wrote much on this subject. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z If such a grammarian wished to write the number twelve by this method, he would write down "moon, eyes"; because there is one moon and two eyes. St. Nicholas Vol. XIII, September, 1886, No. 11 An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks 2011-05-07T02:00:31.650Z The relation of prepositions to their complement.—English grammarians divide prepositions into various classes, but in Esperanto, with the exception of those mentioned in par. The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary 2011-04-12T02:00:28.753Z He was still very poor, but ingenious and active; he was a disciple of the great grammarian, Vaugelas, and later the intimate of Moli�re. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z The grammarian, Diomedes, has preserved the definition of tragedy formulated by Theophrastus, Aristotle's successor as head of the Peripatetic school. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z The eminent grammarian is still farther mistaken in declaring that the foundation of the Latin language is Greek. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Still, however, the greater number of grammarians, at least of the verbal grammarians, were slaves. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z “Not unless they are grammarians, and ask me to parse a sentence.” All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z In analyzing society; in detecting, exposing, and generalizing its operations and its various phenomena, they are but grammarians or anatomists, confining philosophy to its proper sphere, and employing it for useful purposes. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z Is Aristophanes ironical, and are the scholiasts and grammarians merely stupid? Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z The Greek Medea, which we now have, he supposes to be compounded of the original copy and the recension,—the ancient grammarians having interpolated the manuscripts. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z These were now taught in the schools of almost all grammarians, of whom there were, at one time, upwards of twenty in Rome. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z The Rhesus is still held by some to be what the didascaliae and the grammarians call it—a work of Euripides; and Paley has ably supported this view. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z When the ephebia instead of a military college became a university, the military instructors were replaced by philosophers, rhetoricians, grammarians and artists. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z To name even the most important of grammarians, anthologists, philologists, critics of Arabia, is to call a long list. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The names of sixty-three of his pieces have been cited by grammarians, and from all these fragments are still extant. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z That learned grammarian has also mentioned the division of three great periods established by Varro. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z For these we are indebted largely to the Latin grammarians, who quote freely from him, usually in illustration of the meaning of some word which they may be discussing. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z What mediæval language in Europe had a school of grammarians, and at what date? The New Irish Constitution 2011-02-06T03:00:57.247Z A faint idea of the great number of Arabian grammarians, critics and poets may be gleaned by perusing the biographical dictionary of Ibn Khallikan, who flourished in the thirteenth century. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Accordingly, Cicero, and the early grammarians who cite them, have attempted rather to give the meaning than the precise words of the Decemvirs. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z This corruption of MSS. is sufficiently evinced by the circumstance, that the most ancient grammarians frequently cite verses as from a play of Plautus, which can now no longer be found in the drama quoted. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z We miss even the objections raised by modern grammarians, the idle conceits, the play upon words, the puns, the improbability, the extravagance, the absurdity, the obscenity, the puerility, the bombast, the emphasis, the exaggeration. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z Eldad is quoted as an authority on linguistic difficulties by the leading medieval Jewish grammarians and lexicographers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" 2011-01-29T03:00:23.777Z The Arabic grammarians and anthologists began their work about the middle of the eighth century. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Of these, the critics and grammarians have preserved some fragments, which are generally of a tender and sentimental, sometimes even of a plaintive cast. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The fragments, however, found in Cicero, Macrobius, and the old grammarians, are so considerable, that they have been frequently collected together, and largely commented on. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z With the coming of the Jesuits, Emmanuel Alvarez produced the Latin grammar in which for the first time the principles of the language were formally laid down and the fancies of ancient grammarians laid aside. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z Some grammarians say they hear it more often than you may think. NYC: Subjects And Verbs As Evil Plot 2011-01-14T03:20:01Z There were also the two celebrated schools of grammarians at Basra and Kufa, soon to merge in the school of Bagdad. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The courtly literati, the academicians, and the librarians of Alexandria, were distinguished as critics, grammarians, geographers, or geometricians. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z These comprehend all the verses belonging to this drama, collected by Columna, and some newly extracted by the editor from old grammarians. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z In Florence he was sent to the school of the famous grammarian, Francesco Venturino of Urbino, the teacher of the New Learning, who was also some years later a teacher of Raphael. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z Dunash Ben Labraṭ, grammarian and poet, belonged to the brilliant circle attracted to Cordova by Ḥasdai, and took a large share in promoting the Jewish “Golden Age” under the Moors in Andalusia. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z ATHENAEUS, of Naucratis in Egypt, Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourished about the end of the 2nd and the beginning of the 3rd century A.D. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" From the time of his death till the extinction of ancient classical culture, there was a regular succession of rhetoricians and grammarians who lectured and wrote treatises on his various poems. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil When Athens was taken by Sylla, the library of this citizen was carried to Rome, where the works of Aristotle were corrected by Tyrannion, a grammarian. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History He had always a certain taste for poetry, but it seems to have been merely the taste created or enforced by the constant study of the poets under the grammarian. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius ARISTOPHANES, of Byzantium, Greek critic and grammarian, was born about 257 B.C. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" ARCADIUS, of Antioch, Greek grammarian, flourished in the 2nd century A.D. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" Roman literature from a comparatively early period produced a large number of grammarians, commentators, and rhetoricians. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Bain was at once grammarian, rhetorician, educationalist, and logician, but his fame rests on his contributions to psychology. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis But the grammarian, to the very end, as a rule never escaped the double stigma of doubtful origin and of poverty. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius As a grammarian, he founded a scientific school, and in his Analogy systematically explained the various forms. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" An epitome of the great work of Herodian on general prosody in twenty books, wrongly attributed to Arcadius, is probably the work of Theodosius of Alexandria or a grammarian named Aristodemus. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" Yet the Alexandrian grammarians ranked him next to Homer. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli In the morning, before work, I went to my old grammarian, who gave me a task of five or six lines. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 It is notional in the grammarian, it is real in the experimentalist. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent APION, Greek grammarian and commentator on Homer, born at Oasis in Libya, flourished in the first half of the 1st century A.D. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" The present is a convenient occasion for mentioning the demiurgi, as several grammarians state that they were in particular a Doric magistracy,614 perhaps, however, only judging from the form δαμιουργός. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 A�pion, a Greek grammarian, born in Egypt, lived in the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, and Claudius, A.D. 15-54, and went to Rome to teach grammar and rhetoric. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli Nothing that had been written by poet, philosopher, historian, or grammarian, escaped him. Friend Mac Donald Priscian the grammarian speaks of him as having attained the summit of honesty and of all sciences. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" ANTIMACHUS, of Colophon or Claros, Greek poet and grammarian, flourished about 400 B.C. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" It was the Latin grammar of the period, and was the work of Donatus, a famous Roman grammarian of the fourth century. The Story of Books Fragments of eighty still survive; though in many cases they are represented merely by citations given incidentally by some late grammarian, to prove the existence of some rare word or antiquated form. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII The St Gall glosses on Priscian contain Irish terms for all the nomenclature of the Latin grammarians, and show how extensive was the use made of Irish even in this department of learning. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" Later grammarians confined the term to nouns, and included the nominative. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" The same style obtains with Palladas, an Alexandrian grammarian of the 4th century, the last of the strictly classical epigrammatists, and the first to be guilty of downright bad taste. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" "Most of them, when I could escape the notes and grammarian's drivel." Years of Plenty No such concomitant defect attended the reformations in grammar which, begun by the grammarians of the sixteenth century, were pursued still more systematically by Vaugelas and his followers. A Short History of French Literature When the word causing mutation ended in a vowel we get the vocalic mutation, called by Irish grammarians aspiration. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" The Emperor loves as much to be surrounded by women as by soldiers and abbots, without forgetting the learned men, the rhetoricians, the dialecticians, the instructors, the peripatetic pedagogues and the grammarians. The Carlovingian Coins Or The Daughters of Charlemagne. A Tale of the Ninth Century Here the MSS. were handed over to the grammarian Tyrannion, who took copies of them, on the basis of which the peripatetic philosopher Andronicus of Rhodes prepared an edition of Aristotle’s works. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" He opened a school in the suburbs of Alexandria, and some of the most distinguished grammarians and poets were his pupils. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" There were no less than twenty Greek and Latin grammarians who held professorships at Constantinople. Lectures on The Science of Language When the word causing mutation originally ended in a nasal, we get the nasal mutation called by Irish grammarians eclipse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" In the study of languages I soon found that my teachers were excellent grammarians, but I pleaded that I wanted to learn to talk and not merely to conjugate. Geraldine Farrar The Story of an American Singer Dravidian nouns are divided into two classes, which Tamil grammarians called high-caste and casteless respectively. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" CALLISTRATUS, Alexandrian grammarian, flourished at the beginning of the 2nd century b.c. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" This is a mere creation of grammarians who cannot understand a multiplicity of dialects without a common type. Lectures on The Science of Language The native grammarian is J. Kelly, who in 1803 published A Practical Grammar of the Ancient Gaelic or Language of the Isle of Man, usually called Manks. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" DONATUS, AELIUS, Roman grammarian and teacher of rhetoric, flourished in the middle of the 4th century a.d. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" DIOMEDES, Latin grammarian, flourished at the end of the 4th century a.d. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" His lexicon is an alphabetical dictionary of words including the names of persons and places—a compilation of extracts from Greek writers, grammarians, scholiasts and lexicographers, very carelessly and unequally executed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" But remember that these are only general categories under which philosophers and grammarians endeavored to arrange the facts of language. Lectures on The Science of Language Although a strict grammarian might find fault with their construction, there is no appearance of any thing like indifference on the part of the Prince. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 They are the citations of lexicographers and grammarians, made either as illustrations of the Æolic tongue or as examples of metre. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern Many, who claim to be good grammarians, are occasionally guilty of the violation of certain important rules. Every-Day Errors of Speech CRATES, of Mallus in Cilicia, a Greek grammarian and Stoic philosopher of the 2nd century B.C., leader of the literary school and head of the library of Pergamum. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" This, however, is by no means the whole verbal contingent at the command of a Turkish grammarian. Lectures on The Science of Language A dog being no critical grammarian, understands it to apply to fur as well as feather. The Dog The language grows in his brain from the first rudiments—the real natural rudiments, not the hard rudiments of the grammarian—just as plants grow naturally from their seeds. The Intellectual Life He must know the languages, not as scholars and grammarians know them, but in all their dialects and 'patois.' Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas The different ways of making in common speech the equivalent of a general name logically are for the grammarian to consider. Logic, Inductive and Deductive The attempts of single grammarians and purists to improve language are perfectly bootless; and we shall probably hear no more of schemes to prune languages of their irregularities. Lectures on The Science of Language We lately met a grammarian, who had just made a tour through the mines, conjugating, or, rather, cogitating thus: “Positive, mine; comparative miner; superlative, minus!” Five Hundred Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Pronouncing, and Writing the English Language, Corrected This constant occupation of thought produces the philosophical historian, profound critic, physiologist, mathematician, general grammarian, etymologist, and metaphysician. Sound Mind or, Contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect Add to that that I made a mess of the simplest sentences, and wrote in a style worthy of a pedantic grammarian. Eyes Like the Sea The decadence of Latin early in the 7th century is exemplified by the fantastic grammarian Virgilius Maro, who also illustrates the transition from Latin to Proven�al, and from quantitive to accentual forms of verse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" The terms singular and plural were not invented till they were wanted, and they were first wanted by the grammarians. Lectures on The Science of Language The book ends with an historical sketch of the English language, an article on the formation of words, and a list of equivalent terms employed by other grammarians. Health Lessons Book 1 Call in the assistance of a good grammarian. The Lawyers, A Drama in Five Acts He was a grammarian who lived at the end of the 2nd century. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" Linacre was a friend of Lily, the grammarian, and was consulted by Erasmus. Old and New London Volume I The word never occurs before, and, of course, could not be borrowed, like the names of the other cases, from Greek grammarians, as they admitted no ablative in Greek. Lectures on The Science of Language When a person responds, even in writing, "It is me," grammarians say he is incorrect—that he ought to say "I." Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. Great philosophers, physicians, mathematicians, astronomers, alchemists, grammarians, had arisen among them. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition The Choerilean metre, mentioned by the Latin grammarians, is probably so called because the above line is the oldest extant specimen. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" The chief were Lily, the grammarian, second master of St. Paul's; and Linacre, the physician, the friend of Colet and Erasmus. Old and New London Volume I Chinese commentators admit that all empty words were originally full words, just as Sanskrit grammarians maintain that all that is found in grammar was originally substantial. Lectures on The Science of Language The elaborate distinctions drawn between these words by modern grammarians are not only cumbersome and foreign to the genius of English, but equally lacking in psychological basis. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary The object of the Normal School is, not so much to make arithmeticians and grammarians, for instance, as to make teachers of arithmetic and grammar. In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education The evidence derived from a comparison of the British Museum papyrus with the quotations from the lost work of Aristotle’s which are found in scholiasts and grammarians is conclusive. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" In painting, at any rate, the complete expression of thought is grammatical, and if not, so much the worse for the grammarians. The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors Tiberius the Emperor, and the grammarians, anecdote of, 47. Lectures on The Science of Language The cedilla is an etymological sign added by modern grammarians. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary Old James Ross, the grammarian, famous as a teacher in Philadelphia more than half a century ago, had on his sign simply these words, "Greek and Latin taught here." In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education Selvatico states them as follows: Solomon, the wise; Priscian, the grammarian; Aristotle, the logician; Tully, the orator; Pythagoras, the philosopher; Archimedes, the mechanic; Orpheus, the musician; Ptolemy, the astronomer. The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), Macrobius, a critic and grammarian of celebrity, flourished in the fourth or fifth century, and interests us as being one through knowledge of whose works Samuel Johnson first attracted notice at Oxford. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 We are putting the letter in place of the spirit, and dealing with nature as a mere grammarian deals with a poem. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) The older form, theos = these, shows that the e is not a sign of the plural, as many English grammarians have asserted. Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century Eliot is almost the only witty grammarian that I have had the fortune to meet with. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare The grammarian, the philologist, the historian, the naturalist, the philosopher, therefore, have no service they can perform here. The Church, the Schools and Evolution Compilers, grammarians, critics, commentators, and encyclopædists; summarising the past and quibbling over technical minutiæ; are the last survivors of a dying literature from whence inspiration has already fled. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 The present tendency among grammarians is to treat these forms separately. Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses The strange name of Demogorgon has probably its origin in the clerical error of some mediæval copyist, fumbling with the scholia of an anonymous grammarian. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle Is not our Amsterdam congregation full of men of culture—grammarians, poets, exegetes, philosophers, jurists, but flesh and blood, mark you, not diagrams, cut out of Euclid? Dreamers of the Ghetto Therefore, both dialecticians and natural philosophers use those words which are not common in the ordinary conversation of the Greeks; and geometricians, musicians, and grammarians, all speak after a peculiar fashion of their own. The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero We can now account for what has hitherto puzzled all grammarians, namely, the double possessive. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 He bore the proud title of Philologer Royal of Denmark, and he was above all things else a grammarian. Grimhild's Vengeance Three Ballads She was aware of her limitations and struggled faithfully to overcome them, spending many hours to qualify herself in mathematics and as a grammarian. Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight But had this modification been a part of the usage of the classical language, it would have been noticed by the grammarians, who discuss each letter with great minuteness. Latin Pronunciation A Short Exposition of the Roman Method The one was called by grammarians the masculine gender, the other the feminine gender of the adjective. Elements of Gaelic Grammar The want of scenery is sometimes supplied by a very unclassical figure, which, just the reverse of the prosopopoeia or personification of grammarians, considers persons to represent things. Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton The masculine pronoun he, has been used for grammatical convenience, not at all because we agree with the prejudiced, and uncourteous grammarian, who asserts, "that the masculine is the more worthy gender." Practical Education, Volume II Any grammarian can see at once that there is no contradiction here. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 11, November, 1880 Now no grammarian ever mentions more than one sound for Latin c. Latin Pronunciation A Short Exposition of the Roman Method The practice in other dialects of the Celtic, and the authority of respectable grammarians, affords collateral support to the opinion here defended. Elements of Gaelic Grammar The word etymology, derived from the Greek, in the current language of scholars and grammarians, has a double meaning. A Handbook of the English Language The fanciful, or at least what appears to the moderns fanciful, arrangement of the cases amongst grammarians, may be dispensed with for the present. Practical Education, Volume II Aelius Donatus, a grammarian who flourished at Rome about A.D. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors The later grammarians give to ē a sound approximating to the sound of i. Latin Pronunciation A Short Exposition of the Roman Method It is termed eclipsis by the Irish grammarians, and is an evidence of a nice attention to euphonia. Elements of Gaelic Grammar The first of these sorts may be called etymology in the limited sense of the word, or the etymology of the grammarian. A Handbook of the English Language Lindley Murray commenced his work as a grammarian, and his other writings, after disease had fixed upon his declining years. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 A class of grammar students, if allowed to analyze sentences and parse words each according to his understanding, would never become perfect grammarians. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity The grammarians say that the character axis a monogram representing cs or gs. Latin Pronunciation A Short Exposition of the Roman Method The word "grammarian" was more widely inclusive than now, meaning one who devoted himself to general learning. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning On account of this the grammarians have cut down the number of Latin tenses to five; forms like cucurri and vixi being dealt with as one and the same tense. A Handbook of the English Language Each cast had its name, sixty-four of which have been transmitted to us by the grammarians. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life Sanctes, the grammarian of Pagnum, a man of no mean erudition and evidently a diligent scholar, renders the passage, "My punishment is greater than I can bear." Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood "The purpose of education," said Montaigne, "is the training, not of a grammarian, or a logician, but of a complete gentleman." History of Education The liberal party counted in its ranks the two distinguished families of Tibbon and Kimchi, the former famed as successful translators, the latter as grammarians. Jewish Literature and Other Essays This is the last art that the philosophic grammarian is ambitious of acquiring. A Handbook of the English Language The learned are divided, according to their different studies into the classes of philosophers, poets, grammarians, natural philosophers, metaphysicians, &c. Niels Klim's journey under the ground being a narrative of his wonderful descent to the subterranean lands; together with an account of the sensible animals and trees inhabiting the planet Nazar and the firmament. The two original words of this passage, minneso and avon, are a pair of crosses for grammarians. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood Abraham is best known as a grammarian and Biblical commentator, particularly the latter, though his versatility is remarkable. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Again we meet, at the threshold of the period, a characteristic figure, the thinker Sa'adia, ranking high as author and religious philosopher, known also as a grammarian and a poet. Jewish Literature and Other Essays This fact relieves the English grammarian from a difficulty. A Handbook of the English Language The grammarians are a sort of military body, who disturb the public peace. Niels Klim's journey under the ground being a narrative of his wonderful descent to the subterranean lands; together with an account of the sensible animals and trees inhabiting the planet Nazar and the firmament. Such absurdities originate in the stale grammatical rules, whereas usage rather should be considered; it is that which trains the grammarian. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood And so he, too, the grammarian and philologist, succumbed to the allegorical and symbolical method he condemned. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy In their wake come troops of physicians, theologians, lexicographers, Talmudists, and grammarians. Jewish Literature and Other Essays Words of this last-named class cause occasional difficulty to the grammarian. A Handbook of the English Language He says, too, that the word “nation” is an invention of the grammarians, made to save the trouble of circumlocution, a nonentity! Principles Of Political Economy Here Moses seems to have fixed a cross for the grammarians and the rabbins; for they crucify this passage in various ways. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood Wide as Bain's influence has been as a logician, a grammarian and a writer on rhetoric, his reputation rests on his psychology. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" We embrace this opportunity of making a grammatical observation with respect to the older poets, which, to the best of our knowledge, has not hitherto been noticed by any grammarian or critic. Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes In the eyes of one grammarian the term mountain height may be as truly a compound word as sun-beam. A Handbook of the English Language The nasal letters m, n, and ng, are clear tremulous sounds like R and L, and have all of them been called liquids by grammarians. The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes It contains the germs from which all similar works have sprung, which since have perfected and enlarged that of Champollion; it showed the path in which all subsequent grammarians were to walk. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History The ancients thus accepted the passage as Homeric, with the exception of some of the later grammarians. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary If he did so, he would probably not be the better grammarian. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature In the eyes of another grammarian it may be no compound word, but two words, just as Alpine height is two words; mountain being dealt with as an adjective. A Handbook of the English Language The names of more abstracted ideas as the conjunctions and prepositions of grammarians. The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes Miss Baker was too good a grammarian to doubt the fact. The Bertrams The first line speaks of the man, Ulysses, and designates his main attribute by a word, which may be translated versatile or resourceful, though some grammarians construe it otherwise. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary The Welsh and Breton grammarians call this a dual. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature It is used by Latin and English grammarians in a wider sense, and includes not only the doctrines of accent and quantity, but also the laws of metre and versification. A Handbook of the English Language This is for secular collegiates, theologians, artists, seminarists, rhetoricians, and grammarians. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century Some of these words aptly illustrate the difficulty of classifying Malay words according to the parts of speech usually recognised by grammarians. A Manual of the Malay language With an Introductory Sketch of the Sanskrit Element in Malay The grammarian, Aristophanes, somewhat affectedly exclaimed:—“O Life and Menander! which of you two imitated the other?” Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher By the impersonal form, as the Breton grammarians call it. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature In this metre there is always a pause after the fourth measure, and many grammarians consider that with that pause the line ends. A Handbook of the English Language Greek grammarian and poet, who On fish- and hunt- ing wrote. Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) For the scholar, as such, be he biologist, or grammarian, or metaphysician, the exclusive opposition between 'words' and 'things' has no meaning. Colleges in America Eliot had become an acute grammarian by his studies at the English university of Cambridge. The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) Besides, all the laity are not lost, and there was nothing to prevent me from being, for example, a grammarian or a philosopher. The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul The grammarians, it is true, are at variance. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life There are many words, as Greek and Latin grammarians tell us, which, if used in the plural, have a different meaning from what they have in the singular. Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion You are too good a transcriber not to have some little smattering of the grammarian. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I "Deep read school men or grammarians" is a reference to Shakespeare's grammar school education. Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 There various literary Greeks obtained access to it; and, among others, Tyrannion, a grammarian and friend of Cicero, did good service in the work of correction. Fathers of Biology Moreover than which, as grammarians say, Sark has evidently been misinformed. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 17, 1914 Discoveries of this kind may seem trifling, but they are as delightful to the grammarian as the appearance of a star, long expected and calculated, is to the astronomer. Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion A grammarian of imperial Rome named Probus compiled, about the 3rd or 4th century, A.D., a list of cautions as to mispronunciation. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) I suspect 'em Sent you by that grammarian critic, Sulla. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Thus he that is fond of reading will give his time to research; the grammarian his to syntax; and the traveller, who has wandered over many countries, his to geography. Plutarch's Morals Every old printer knows, what is often said, that English is a grammarless tongue, and that no grammarian ever wrote a sentence worth reading. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 The dialect of these songs or ballads is full of what grammarians would call irregularities, that is to say, full of those changes which every language undergoes in the mouths of the people. Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion He is now reproached because he dares, as a mere grammarian, to assail the text of Holy Scripture on the score of futile mistakes or irregularities. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation But moi, according to all French grammarians, is very often in the nominative case. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. But the line was suspected even by old grammarians, and is put in brackets in modern editions of the "Odyssey." Plutarch's Morals The grammarians and didactic writers, the poets, the encyclopædists, the teachers whom Charlemagne endowed and gathered about him, the heads of the schools which he founded, were all churchmen. Human Traits and their Social Significance I am not sure which of them, the names of the bones or the sutras of the grammarian, were the more jaw-breaking. My Reminiscences The illustrious towns of the Greek world fall one after the other, and the exiled grammarians seek shelter with the literate tyrants of Italy, bringing with them their manuscripts. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Epithet is the technical term of the rhetorician; adjective, that of the grammarian. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. But he read them as a philosopher, and not as a grammarian. Plutarch's Morals They should be offered as pure melody in free rhythm and sung in unison: their accompaniment must not be entrusted to a modern grammarian. A Practical Discourse on Some Principles of Hymn-Singing Hence the great German grammarian Grimm, and others, predict that English will spread itself all over the world, and become the universal language of the future. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 There is among them a hymn, of which the metre is so incondite, and the phraseology so ancient, that the grammarians have attributed it to Linus. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection This new doctrine is in opposition to the almost unanimous judgment of the most distinguished grammarians and critics, who have considered the subject, and expressed their views concerning it. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. Nor does exile deprive geometricians or grammarians of their freedom of speech, or prevent their discussing what they know and have learnt. Plutarch's Morals He succeeded so well, that this piece has been the stumbling-block of all the grammarians, scholiasts, and commentators; and remains inexplicable to the present day. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 You have no authority but that of one or two very late writers, and two or three old grammarians, who had found the word and guessed at its meaning. Gryll Grange Between Lyly on the one hand, and the grammarians on the other, the reader is almost tempted to ask if this be literature or mathematics. The Bibliotaph and Other People Let us give the sentence a turn, and the Doctor and the grammarian will hear how it will sound. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. Collado, as Rodriguez and indeed all the grammarians of the period, felt obligated to train their students in those patterns of speech which were appropriate to the most polite elements of society. Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language "God confound you," cried one grammarian to another, "for your theory of impersonal verbs!" Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 Why cannot we leave them to a few antiquaries and grammarians? English Past and Present They naturally took their punctuation from the Greek grammarians, but sometimes with changed meanings. Punctuation A Primer of Information about the Marks of Punctuation and their Use Both Grammatically and Typographically If, as Horace and Professor Davidson aver, usage in language makes right, then the grammarians ought long ago to have invented some theory upon which the locution you are mistaken could be defended. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. "I completed what grammarians call the Singular Number by adding 'Il vient;' whereupon—but I have told you." Simon Dale The review was calculated to damage the sale of any book; it was a dastardly attack on Browzer's reputation as a man of wit and humour, a linguist, and a grammarian. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 31, 1892 What the grammarian calls the common nouns of our language are the words by which we name our concepts and are able to speak of them to others. The Mind and Its Education A second brother was Metrodoros, a distinguished grammarian and teacher, especially of the youthful nobility of Byzantium, as it was then called, or Constantinople, as we have come to call it. Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages Another says that it would, perhaps, be better to abolish it entirely, as its use is a continual source of dispute among grammarians and of perplexity to schools. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. Instead of "He is a bad grammarian," say "He is not a grammarian." The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference Here is an example by Ibn As-Sarraj, the grammarian: I compared her beauty with her conduct, and found that her charms did not counterbalance her perfidy. A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions The meek old men were removed from Athalaric's bed-chamber; he was released from his daily attendance on the grammarian; and some young Gothic nobles were assigned to him as associates. Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation Ibn Khallikan says that he was a learned grammarian, and surpassed in this science every person of former and later times. Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature Most grammarians," says Dr. Bain, in his "Higher English Grammar," "have laid down this rule: 'The verb to be has the same case after as before it.' The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. I told him that I was well versed in the science of laws, both human and divine; that I was a grammarian, a poet, and, above all, that I wrote remarkably well. The Arabian Nights Entertainments No matter what the profession or calling of these Persians—whether they were lawyers or lawgivers, grammarians or warriors—they all, or almost all, adored verbal felicity and tried their hands at verse. A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions Borrow, as we shall see, knew many languages, and knew them well colloquially, but he was not a grammarian, and he could not write accurately in any one of his numerous tongues. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Mention must also be made of Al-Farra, the grammarian, and distinguished by his knowledge of grammar, philology, and various branches of literature. Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature Formerly the imperfect tense of this verb was gat, which is now obsolete, and the perfect participle was gotten, which, some grammarians say, is growing obsolete. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. Specific idioms are themselves at variance with grammar and logic, and the grammarians are forever fighting them; but when we go into the vague realm of poetic style, the logical mind is lost at once. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric Al-Yazidi, a story of whom I quoted above, was a teacher of Koranic readings, a grammarian and a philologer, who taught in Baghdad in the ninth century. A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions In literature an age of poets had long since made way for an age of commentators and grammarians, who thought that the old poems must have been the work of gods. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" He was a complete master of the Arabic language, an able grammarian, and the most eminent of all those who transmitted orally historical narrations, anecdotes, stories, and rare expressions of the language. Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature Some grammarians consider the form 'I do go' a separate mood, and term it the emphatic mood. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. The majestic and sonorous Sanscrit metre is at his command, and even this he uses, carelessly, and with frequent slips, known as arsha to later grammarians. Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse Yet, if, freely to guess, the gift recherché Some grammarian, haply Sulla, sent thee; 10 I repine not; a dear delight, a triumph This, thy drudgery thus to see rewarded. The Poems and Fragments of Catullus In this sense they might with propriety have been called relation particles, and doubtless this function was in mind when some of the older grammarians called them transitions. On the Evolution of Language First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 1-16 Mention must also be made of Abdullah bin Muslim bin Kutaiba, who was a philologist and grammarian of eminent talent, and noted for the correctness of his information. Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature It has not, as far as I know, the support of any respectable grammarian. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. The ancient grammarian who assailed the works of Homer. Early Reviews of English Poets As a virtuous man is offended by any act of vice, as a musician is pained by a discordant note, so does the grammarian in a moment perceive a false concord. The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator It was a Bohemian, Mathurin Regnier, who was one of the last defenders of the bulwarks of poetry, assailed by the phalanx of rhetoricians and grammarians who declared Rabelais barbarous and Montaigne obscure. Bohemians of the Latin Quarter "Oh, that is all right—Anzac troops—there's no objection to that—we are that," went on the grammarian with the elbow sling, "but there's no such thing as an Anzac—the Anzacs—it's nonsense." Letters from France There are grammarians who insist that this verb should not be used without an object, as, for example, it is used in such sentences as, "When do you leave?" The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. "Take care he does not pull your ear," says Bacchus, "for thus he treated a grammarian." History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour He defended the Jews against a contemporary grammarian, named Apion, who had written a violent satire on the Jews. Pascal's Pensées The zenith of the historico-literary studies of the Greeks, and hence also of their point of greatest importance—the Homeric question—was reached in the age of the Alexandrian grammarians. Homer and Classical Philology Ammonius.—Alexandrian grammarian, carried on the school of Aristarchus previously to the reign of Augustus. On the Sublime Modern grammarians designate by solecism any word or expression which does not agree with the established usage of writing or speaking. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. Martial often uses the figure called by the Greek grammarians "contrary to expectation." History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour But grammar does not make a man always speak correctly: for a grammarian may be guilty of a barbarism or make a solecism: and the case is the same with other sciences and arts. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition The Museum provided lodgings for scholars, mathematicians, astronomers, physicians, and grammarians. History Of Ancient Civilization He is mentioned with distinction as a learned Greek rhetorician and grammarian, and was the author of numerous works, frequently referred to by Plutarch and other later writers. On the Sublime That they are used colloquially by well-nigh everybody, no one will dispute; but that they are correct, few grammarians will concede. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. He made excuses, from time to time, for not returning it; but Petrarch, at last, had too good reason to suspect that the old grammarian had pawned it. The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch For through being gifted in science or art, a man is said to be good, not simply, but relatively; for instance, a good grammarian or a good smith. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition But it is accidental to a passive quality, for instance, to something colored, to be a musician or a grammarian, great or small, a man or a stone. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition In Browning's hands the figure of the old grammarian becomes heroic. An Introduction to the Study of Browning Good usage does, and it is to be hoped always will, consider you was a gross vulgarism, certain grammarians to the contrary notwithstanding. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. If the chiefs of nations were more just and more sensible, theological opinions would not disturb the public tranquillity any more than the disputes of philosophers, physicians, grammarians, and of critics. Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense But this does not apply to science and art: for every grammarian does not know everything relating to grammar. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition For a man who has a bad will can use ill even the good he has, as when a grammarian of his own will speaks incorrectly. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition The great fault is, grammarians do not allow themselves to think on the subject of language, or if they do, they only think intransitively, that is, produce no thoughts by their cogitations. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. The six books composing the first of these are written respectively against grammarians, rhetoricians, geometricians, arithmeticians, astronomers and musicians. Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism There's no grammarian of the language of dress. A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy He fulminates against the "grammarians" and begins to think that perhaps, after all, a career of erudite scholarship is not the ideal existence. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I The story is told of a mystic knower, who went on a journey with a learned grammarian as his companion. The Seven Valleys and the Four Valleys What a fine thing to be a grammarian! Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. Jinendra may be a name either of the Buddha or of a grammarian. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 This is one of the finest instances on record of the popular figure which grammarians call the hysteron proteron, and ordinary folk describe as putting the cart before the horse. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science They were the grammarians and the scribes, the mathematicians and the philosophers of that ancient country, the teachers of the young, and the patrons of the arts and crafts. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria I give an hour a day to the King of Prussia to touch up a bit his works in prose and verse; I am his grammarian, not his chamberlain ... Historical Tales, Vol 5 (of 15) The Romance of Reality, German But some grammarians have passed these natural barriers, and built to themselves schemes to accord with their own vain fancies. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. To these terrible grammarians—who, two hundred years ago, criticised Molière on account of his "jargon"—I shall reply by quoting Schumann. Musicians of To-Day I turned away a second time, quite disheartened, from the German grammarians, and once more took my own road. Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel translated and annotated by Emilie Michaelis ... and H. Keatley Moore. This hypothesis is certainly simpler than the complicated hypothesis of the grammarians who teach that the sphota is the word. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 The old grammarians tell us that a certain part of speech was called supine, because it was very seldom needed, and therefore almost always lying on its back—i.e. in Latin, supinus. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Most grammarians contend for five moods, two of which, the potential or powerful, and the subjunctive, are predicated on the same principles as Mr. Harris' optative, interrogative, etc., which they condemn. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. NICHOLAS: The "that" question in your recent numbers brings to mind some "thats" I had when I went to school long years ago, and which some of your young grammarians may never have seen. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 Scribner's Illustrated For there are three modes of existence, or in the language of grammarians three kinds of verbs. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life The age of creative literature is over, and commentators, critics and grammarians have succeeded. The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji "No," answered the careful grammarian, "I want a comb for a stout man with tortoiseshell teeth." More Toasts Most grammarians will call it an intransitive verb, and make out that "he wrote" nothing to me, because there is no regular objective word after it. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. The pronoun you, which grammarians had fixed to be of the plural number, was then occasionally used, but less than it is now, in addressing an individual. A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 The names of the things themselves are termed by grammarians Nouns, and their modes of existence are termed Verbs. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life In this division and order of the parts of grammar I follow the common grammarians, without inquiring whether a fitter distribution might not be found. A Grammar of the English Tongue Some of his plays have suffered severely from the ravages of time, the ignorance of copyists, and the more dangerous officiousness of grammarians. The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. In the explanation of this verb, grammarians further tell us that a passive verb is formed by adding the verb to be, which is thus made auxiliary, to a past participle; as, Portia was loved. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. Moreover the teaching of the grammarians can contribute to life, provided it has been applied to its higher uses. Readings in the History of Education Mediaeval Universities Like the celebrated Thayendanegea, the Mohawk, otherwise known as Joseph Brant, he had been sent to a white school and he had learned the English of the grammarian. The Hunters of the Hills Such would be the orthography of a new language, to be formed by a synod of grammarians upon principles of science. A Grammar of the English Tongue No Sanskrit scholarship has equalled that of the great grammarian Panini, who lived in the fourth century B.C. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 I have not time to go into a thoro investigation of the mistakes into which grammarians have fallen in their attempts to explain this "part of speech." Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. Pânini, the grammarian of India, was said to be contemporary with King Nanda, who was the successor of Chandragupta, the contemporary of Alexander, and therefore in the second half of the fourth century before Christ. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology It is in his musicians, his painters, his grammarians, that the heart and passion of Browning the poet really live. Robert Browning Wrote however may be used in poetry; at least, if we allow any authority to poets, who, in the exultation of genius, think themselves perhaps entitled to trample on grammarians. A Grammar of the English Tongue The editor among other things has added in Roman characters the vulgar pronunciation of the Arabic, which differs materially from that given by the grammarians. Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations All grammarians have found a difficulty in the word like, which they were unable to unravel. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. Hyperbole is, I believe, the term grammarians use for it. The Street Called Straight I am entrusted with the task of putting together some facts which would support the view that the art of writing was known in India before the time of our grammarian—the Siva-taught Panini. Five Years of Theosophy The established practice of grammarians requires that I should here treat of the Syntax; but our language has so little inflection, or variety of terminations, that its construction neither requires nor admits many rules. A Grammar of the English Tongue His object is to become, not a philosophical antiquarian, but a practical grammarian. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Had grammarians stopped here, their works would have been understood, and proved of some service in the study of language. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. In the school of Paderborn," says the biographer of Meinwert, as he is cited by Schmidt, "there are famous musicians, dialecticians, orators, grammarians, mathematicians, astronomers and geometricians. The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands For not only were the grammarians, philosophers, and orators Greek, but also the sculptors and painters, and the young men kept Greeks to manage their horses and hounds, and instruct them in hunting. Plutarch's Lives, Volume I Abundant quotations from standard authors have been given to show the student that he is dealing with the facts of the language, and not with the theories of grammarians. An English Grammar For the want of a proper knowledge of this little pronoun it, many grammarians have been greatly puzzled how to dispose of it, or how to account for its multiform, and, seemingly, contradictory characters. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures If there was ever such an action in the world, it was when grammarians made their grammars, which is, if I mistake not, according to their own authority, in the im-perfect tense! Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. "He be a rare grammarian, I'm sure," said the farmer. The Hill of Dreams "He used to work just as steadily when his employer was away as when he was in the office," a fact which the grammarian seemed to regard as rather strange. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen It is not the grammarian's business to "correct:" it is simply to record and to arrange the usages of language, and to point the way to the arbiters of usage in all disputed cases. An English Grammar Smith, a distinguished and acute grammarian, suggests the propriety of rendering the sentence thus; "He that formed the ear, formed it to hear; can he not hear?" English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Most grammarians have let it pass unobserved; but every person has seen the necessity of some explanation upon this point, to afford a means of ascertaining the etymological derivation and meaning of these words. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. It puts the standards of poetry not in the hands of the poet, but in the hands of the grammarians. The Art of Letters These grammarians fought out their literary disputes in verses dedicated to Chasdai. Chapters on Jewish Literature If, however, we have tabulated the inflections of the language, and stated what syntax is the most used in certain troublesome places, there is still much for the grammarian to do. An English Grammar Thus you see, it is impossible for you to become a grammarian without exercising your judgment. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Most grammarians have seen the fallacy of attempting to give the meaning of this verb. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. He is a grammarian, and a politician; for he says, the uniting the two kingdoms is the emphasis of the security to the Protestant Succession. The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 His sons, Moses and David, were afterwards famous as grammarians and interpreters of the Scriptures. Chapters on Jewish Literature The practice is condemned by many grammarians, while defended or excused by others. An English Grammar We are, therefore, as rational and practical grammarians, compelled to submit to the necessity of the case; to take the language as it is, and not as it should be, and bow to custom. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures It should be the object of the grammarian, and of all who employ language in the expression of ideas, to become intimately acquainted with their use. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. But the ‘now’ in this text is not, as the grammarians say, temporal, but logical. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Do you know, my friend, that the difference between the second and fourth declensions was solely invented by the grammarians for their own profit. Clementina Who thinks of beginning Russian by studying the "aspects" of the verbs, or by committing to memory the 28 paradigms which German grammarians have devised on the analogy of Latin declensions? Cambridge Essays on Education In arranging the parts of speech, I conceive it to be the legitimate object of the practical grammarian, to consult practical convenience. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures We propose to offer a brief review of these distinctions, which have so long perplexed, not only learners, but teachers themselves, and been the fruitful source of much dissention among grammarians. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. It is also one of those letters which the eastern grammarians call labial, because the principal organs employed in its pronunciation are the lips. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 470, January 8, 1831 The State has strengthened the Church in this theory, the Church has strengthened the State; and the result of all is, that French grammarians follow both these high authorities. Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays He was probably the greatest scholar of his day in England, especially as a grammarian and textual critic. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature Many respectable grammarians refer the government of this mood invariably to the preposition to prefixed, which word they do not, of course, consider a part of the verb. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Suppose we say, "Murray is the best grammarian in the world; or, he is a fool, a knave, and a liar." Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. To the ancient grammarians the "mistakes" and vulgarisms of popular speech were abhorrent, and they have fortunately branded lists of words and expressions which are not to be used by cultivated people. The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature Cautious is she, and there is perhaps nothing in this pastoral that will cause the grammarian to wince, or make the censorious rhetorician writhe in his judgment-seat with the sense that she is committing herself. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 As soon as that world was dead, lo! clouds of rhetoricians, grammarians, sophists, swooped down like insects on its immense body. Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations In the use of many of the pauses, there is a diversity of practice among our best writers and grammarians. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures You can not fail to observe the true character of this word called by our grammarians "adjective pronoun," "relative pronoun," and "conjunction." Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. Both the ancient grammarians in their warnings and the Romance languages bear evidence to this effect. The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature There is Anastasius the grammarian, who was so foolish as to leave Bordeaux for a provincial university and thenceforth languished in well-merited obscurity. Medieval People The grammarian was not a hero, and our calmer moments show us that the poem is not a great ode. Emerson and Other Essays Let them show me one grammarian, produced by such a course of instruction, and they will exhibit a "philosophical" miracle. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures So the grammarian should act as a sort of physiologist of language. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. Until the time of Richard Bentley he was commonly thought of merely as a fabulist whose remains had been preserved by a few grammarians. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 Woods of Harvard University is therefore in a way justified in his unwillingness to identify the grammarian and the Yoga editor on the slender evidence of these commentators. A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 Such collections were made by grammarians and antiquarians of a later age. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 They know how to write as well as him; but he is a better grammarian than them. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures An orator and a poet, he adorned the language whose principles he had fixed as a grammarian. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 Not quite relevant enough, the grammarian may remark, for a sentence like “Who did you say?” is not strictly analogous to “Whom did you see?” or “Whom did you mean?” Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech And if other proofs are available which go against such an identification, we could not think the grammarian and the Yoga writer to be the same person. A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 This prepares the future grammarian for a division of the Kowrarega Verbs into Conjugations. Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 2 On his return this grammarian's assistant heard at Sydney that his tribe was at war with the natives of the Hauraki or Thames district, and that one of his relatives had been killed. The Long White Cloud The Alexandrian grammarians put Alcman at the head of the lyric canon; perhaps partly because they thought him the most ancient, but he was certainly much esteemed in classic times. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 A`pion, an Alexandrian grammarian of the 1st century, and an enemy of the Jews, and hostile to the privileges conceded them in Alexandria. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge The end of Washington's school-days left him, if a good "cipherer," a bad speller, and a still worse grammarian, but, fortunately, the termination of instruction did not by any means end his education. The True George Washington [10th Ed.] But the teacher was first and last a grammarian, and he would wax frantically enthusiastic over some subtle syntactic distinction which left Keith peevishly indifferent. The Soul of a Child He was a profound grammarian, historian, and philosopher. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 Some grammarians use the word clause for a subordinate statement only. Composition-Rhetoric Apollonius of Rhodes, a grammarian and poet, flourished in the 3rd century B.C., author of the "Argonautica," a rather prosaic account of the adventures of the Argonauts. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge He received the rudiments of his education from Mr. Shaw, an excellent grammarian, master of the free school at Ashby De la Zouch in Leicestershire: he finished his grammatical learning under the revd. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV I give an hour a day to the King of Prussia to touch up a bit his works in prose and verse; I am his grammarian, not his chamberlain. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 He was a distinguished orator, grammarian, and rhetorician. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 Nouns and many pronouns are not inflected for person, but most grammarians attribute person to them because the context of the sentence in which they are used shows what persons they represent. Composition-Rhetoric Scholiasts, name given to a class of grammarians who appended annotations to the margins of the MSS. of the classics. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge |
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