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  • Edomites which was strong and warlike. come down -- rather, "fall down," slain [Lowth]. with them -- with the "lambs and goats," the less powerful Edomites (Isa bullocks ... bulls -- the young and old Edomites: all classes. dust -- ground.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Bishop Lowth, whose "Short Introduction to English Grammar" 1762 conceived the rule against double negatives and established many other prejudices, was in fact remarkably nuanced in his judgments.

    Grappling Grammarians Barton Swaim 2011

  • Meanwhile, anyone with even an undergraduate knowledge of the history of the language knows that spurious rules have been invented whole cloth by prescriptive grammarians at least since Lowth and Murray in the 17th century.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Spurious Grammatical “Rules” of Every Sort Are My Abhorrence 2009

  • The source of this stricture, and several other equally dubious ones, was one Robert Lowth, an eighteenth-century clergyman and amateur grammarian whose A Short Introduction to English Grammar, published in 1762, enjoyed a long and distressingly influential life both in his native England and abroad.

    Ending with a preposition | Living the Liminal 2006

  • The source of this stricture, and several other equally dubious ones, was one Robert Lowth, [...]

    03 | August | 2006 | Living the Liminal 2006

  • Warburton drew HIM on to write some very abusive letters, and then asked his leave to publish them; which he knew Lowth could not refuse, after what he had done.

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

  • I know not how the Major contrived to introduce the contest between Warburton and Lowth.

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

  • His Majesty then talked of the controversy between Warburton and Lowth, which he seemed to have read, and asked Johnson what he thought of it.

    The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

  • [95] On this difficult passage see Lowth, Archbishop Newcome, and

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • This, however, is a mistake into which he has been led by reading Lowth not in the original, but in Dr. Gregory's translation.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

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