43/68 The _pretty promises_ with which these "Familiar Lectures" abound, are also worthy to be noticed here, as being among the peculiar attractions of the performance. The following may serve as a specimen: "If you _proceed according to my instructions_, you will be sure to acquire a practical knowledge of Grammar in _a short time_."-- _Kirkham's Gram._, p. "If you have sufficient _resolution to do this_, you will, in a short time, _perfectly understand_ the nature and office of the different parts of speech, their various properties and relations, and the rules of syntax that apply to them; _and, in a few weeks_, be able to speak and write accurately."-- _Ib._, p.62. "You will please to turn back and read over again _the whole five lectures_. |