Without expressly controverting this opinion, or offering any justification of mere metaphrases, or literal translations, we may well assert, that the practice of comparing different languages, and seeking the most appropriate terms for a free version of what is ably written, is an exercise admirably calculated to familiarize and extend grammatical knowledge.
3.

Of the class of books here referrred [sic--KTH] to, that which I have mentioned in an other chapter, as Lily's or King Henry's Grammar, has been by far the most celebrated and the most influential.

Concerning this treatise, it is stated, that its parts were not put together in the present form, until eighteen or twenty years after Lily's death.

"The time when this work was completed," says the preface of 1793, "has been differently related by writers.

Thomas Hayne places it in the year 1543, and Anthony Wood, in 1545.