An Essay on Grammar Applied to the English Language (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1779 Excerpt: ... posed in savour or inclination towards poetic justice, towards Venus, towards such a thing. 1 am for you; i. e. ready or prepared to receive you. We sailed For Genoa. Addison. /. e. with intention to arrive at Genoa. The words ft, right, proper, or other words of like import, are often omitted, and Jor corresponds with what is omitted or understood; as, // is for kings to consult the public good j i. e. to consult the public good is fit, right, proper for kings. It were For Me To throw my sceptre at the injurious Gods. Shakespeare. . e. it were fit, proper, for me to throw, &c. With names of periods of time, for frequently gives notice that some state continues quite through the period; as, Hired For Life. Prior, i. e. during or quite through lise. To guide the fun's chariot For A Day. Garth. /. e. during one day, &c. / never knew a party-woman that kept her beauty For A TwelveMohth. Addison, Spectator, N 57. Than. Than is a sign by which the mind resers To that wherewith it any thing compares. I have already observed, that this particle is (in its general application) not properly a preposition, but a conjunction, directing to that part of a series of words, which is united to the rest by containing that with which a comparison is made, and by which some excess or desect is estimated. Therefore an adjective or adverb of the comparative degree-appears in the series of words with than, to shew the quality or property that is compared j pared j as, a man wiser, richer, less wise, less rich than another; a thing done more or less prudently than was expetted j and so, Thou art fairer Than the children of men. Old Testament. The glory of this latter house shall be Greater Than of the former. Old Testament. I have no greater joy Than To Hear That Mt Children Walk...