Happy mortal! to whom that success which is the ground of his pride, is also the glittering aegis of his sure defence! To this he points with exultation and self-applause, as if the prosperity of the wicked, or the popularity of an imposture, had never yet been heard of in this clever world![12] Upon what merit this success has been founded, my readers may judge, when I shall have finished this slight review of his work.

Probably no other grammar was ever so industriously spread.

Such was the author's perseverance in his measures to increase the demand for his book, that even the attainment of such accuracy as he was capable of, was less a subject of concern.

For in an article designed "to ward off some of the arrows of criticism,"-- an advertisement which, from the eleventh to the "one hundred and fifth edition," has been promising "to the _publick another and a better_ edition,"-- he plainly offers this urgent engagement, as "an apology for its defects:" "The author is apprehensive that his work is _not yet as_ accurate and as much simplified as it _may be_.

If, however, the disadvantages of lingering under a broken constitution, and of being able to devote to this subject _only a small portion of his time_, snatched from the _active pursuits of a business life_, (active as far as imperfect health permits him to be,) are any apology for his defects, he hopes that the candid will set down _the apology to his credit_ .-- Not that he would beg a truce with the gentlemen _criticks_ and reviewers.