But grammar, though intimately connected with all these, and essential to them in practice, is still too distinct from each to be identified with any of them.

In regard to dignity and interest, these higher studies seem to have greatly the advantage over particular grammar; but who is willing to be an ungrammatical poet, orator, or logician?
For him I do not write.

But I would persuade my readers, that an acquaintance with that grammar which respects the genius of their vernacular tongue, is of primary importance to all who would cultivate a literary taste, and is a necessary introduction to the study of other languages.

And it may here be observed, for the encouragement of the student, that as grammar is essentially the same thing in all languages, he who has well mastered that of his own, has overcome more than half the difficulty of learning another; and he whose knowledge of words is the most extensive, has the fewest obstacles to encounter in proceeding further.
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It was the "original design" of grammar, says Dr.Adam, to facilitate "the acquisition of languages;" and, of all practical treatises on the subject, this is still the main purpose.