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...The six books composing the first of these are written respectively against grammarians, rhetoricians, geometricians, arithmeticians, astronomers an...

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...th telling of lies, and feare to become a liar. I am not ignorant how the Grammarians make a difference betweene speaking untrue and lying; and say ... ...re-drawing his words to a contrarie sense, arguing and silogizing, by the grammarians privilege, another meaning, by the manner of his speech and an... ... which he forbade schooles and interdicted all Christian rhetoricians and grammarians to teach, saying he wished this his action might be buried und...

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..., hypocrites, posturers, extravagants, ped- ants, rose-pink ladies and mad grammarians, sonneteering marquises, high-flying mistresses, plain-minded m...

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...sive testimony to its original composition. It was not till the age of the grammarians that its primitive integrity was called in question; nor is it ... ...east competent to carry out their own pre 22 The Odyssey of Homer cepts. Grammarians are not poets by profession, but may be so per accidens. I do n... ...k knowl edge would be gloomy and jejune. But it is not on words only that grammarians, mere gram marians, will exercise their elaborate and often ti...

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...even the short time which he passed at Rome, he had ‘collected a number of grammarians (that is litterateurs) and arithmeticians, the poor remains of ...

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...e space of a single comma in Lady Muriel’s speech! A single comma, for which grammarians tell us to ‘count one’!” (I felt no doubt that the Professor ...

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...sive testimony to its original composition. It was not till the age of the grammarians that its primitive integrity was called in question; nor is it ... ...rpreta- tion, are often least competent to carry out their own pre- cepts. Grammarians are not poets by profession, but may be so per accidens. I do n... ...k knowl- edge would be gloomy and jejune. But it is not on words only that grammarians, mere gram- marians, will exercise their elaborate and often ti...

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... dames with two husbands besides.’ ‘One would have cancelled the other, as grammarians tell us,’ said Harry, ‘if thy charms, John, had cancelled thine...

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... accusative Noun of Multitude; which is father to the expression which the grammarians call Verb. It is like a whole ancestry, with only one posterity...

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...ke upon him the trade of ly- 89 Montaigne ing.” I know very well that the grammarians—[Nigidius, Aulus Gellius, xi. ii; Nonius, v. 80.]—distinguish b... ...nysius, but Diogenes the cynic. Diogenes Laertius, vi. 27.]—laughed at the grammarians, who set themselves to inquire into the miseries of Ulysses, an...

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... what does he mean? What is it that he promises? A memoir upon the eminent grammarians of Rome? Not at all, but a memoir upon the distinguished litera...

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...ery much as the slaves were treated in Asia Minor, whose masters made them grammarians, doctors, and philosophers, in order that they might fetch a hi...

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...time. ‘The doctrine of the Vaw conversive is simply a figment of so-called grammarians; language is not an artificial product, but a natural mode of e...

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...y, etymology, and syn The Philobiblon Richard de Bury 45 tax in ancient grammarians with unrelaxing carefulness, and took pains to elucidate term... ...s the whole reason why we took care to replace the antiquated volumes of the grammarians by improved cod ices, that we might make royal roads, by whi...

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...est of later ages. And when new books ceased to be written, why did hosts of grammarians and interpreters flock in, who never attain to any sound noti...

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...on is not apparently warranted, for it is a common practice, well known to grammarians in the Hebrew language, to use the third person singular of the...

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...r toil is vain, Critics like me shall make it prose again. Roman and Greek grammarians! know your better, Author of something yet more great than lett... ...., De Compotationibus Academicis.—P . W . 400 ‘Letter:’ alluding to those grammarians, such as Palamedes and Simonides, who invented single letters. ...

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... yourselves, Of many blemishes. Beware of stoics, And give your left hand to grammarians; And when you seem, as many a time you may, To have no other ...

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...es an edict of his whereby he inter- dicted all Christian rhetoricians and grammarians to keep school or to teach, and says he could wish that act of ... ...at of Rome. In the seventh book of Cicero’s Familiar Epistles (and let the grammarians put out that surname of familiar if they please, for in truth i...

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...hich grammar, and the common frame of languages, may be apt to lead us into. Since what is signified by verbs that grammarians call active, does not a... ...ey do not signify a plurality; for man and men would then signify the same; and the distinction of numbers (as the grammarians call them) would be sup... ...nd that our simple ideas have all abstract as well as concrete names: the one whereof is (to speak the language of grammarians) a substantive, the oth...