Grammatical Subject

Famous quotes containing the words grammatical and/or subject:

    “Figure him there, with his scrofulous diseases, with his great greedy heart, and unspeakable chaos of thoughts; stalking mournful as a stranger in this Earth; eagerly devouring what spiritual thing he could come at: school-languages and other merely grammatical stuff, if there were nothing better! The largest soul that was in all England.”
    —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

    “When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.”
    —William Hazlitt (1778–1830)