Francis Calverley, The Biggest Idol in the World Knock'd i' th' Head (1681)
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Date
1681
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Book title
The Biggest Idol In The World Knock'd i'th' Head. The Verb's Triumph: Or, The Second Part of Calverley's Notes. Which Notes rightly Distinguish the hitherto horribly misdistinguished Grounds of Speech; And proveth the Rules of the Common Grammar so false and ridiculous, that it's Dishonour for any Learned Nation to Teach or Account them for Rules: Therefore all Grammarians and Lovers of True Distinction are desired to stand up quickly in Vindication of the Common Grammar, or else to procure a Grammar sensible, brief and pleasant, lest (by our slighting of this Method) other Lands entertain it first, and we (for our Ingratitude) be forced to learn it of them, to our grief and shame
Publication place
London
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the Author
Text type
printed book
Genre
Grammars
Subject area
- grammar
- spelling
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type: undifferentiated
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: Personation is the joyning and exp[r]essing of the person of a Noun together or in one with a Verb, so that the World hath (through all Ages hitherto) taken it for one word, which are (indeed) two distinct words and Parts of Speech, as Amabam. The abam is Ego's second Lord Lieutenant, and so the distinction of time, signifying I did, and am is the remainder of the captiv'd and wofully dismembred Queen. (a3v)
sample: Personation is the joyning and exp[r]essing of the person of a Noun together or in one with a Verb, so that the World hath (through all Ages hitherto) taken it for one word, which are (indeed) two distinct words and Parts of Speech, as Amabam. The abam is Ego's second Lord Lieutenant, and so the distinction of time, signifying I did, and am is the remainder of the captiv'd and wofully dismembred Queen. (a3v)
Alston
XVI.439
Wing
C318aa
