If this critical sketch be unimpeachably _just_, its publication requires no further warrant.

The correction has been forborne, till the subject of it has become rich, and popular, and proud; proud enough at least to have published his utter contempt for me and all my works.

Yet not for this do I judge him worthy of notice here, but merely as an apt example of some men's grammatical success and fame.

The ways and means to these grand results are what I purpose now to consider.
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The common supposition, that the world is steadily advancing in knowledge and improvement, would seem to imply, that the man who could plausibly boast of being the most successful and most popular grammarian of the nineteenth century, cannot but be a scholar of such merit as to deserve some place, if not in the general literary history of his age, at least in the particular history of the science which he teaches.