[The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown]@TWC D-Link bookThe Grammar of English Grammars CHAPTER III 52/68
They did not read his book. 34.
Notwithstanding the author's change in his professions, the work is now essentially the same as it was at first; except that its errors and contradictions have been greatly multiplied, by the addition of new matter inconsistent with the old.
He evidently cares not what doctrines he teaches, or whose; but, as various theories are noised abroad, seizes upon different opinions, and mixes them together, that his books may contain something to suit all parties.
"_A System of Philosophical Grammar_," though but an idle speculation, even in his own account, and doubly absurd in him, as being flatly contradictory to his main text, has been thought worthy of insertion.
And what his title-page denominates "_A New System of Punctuation_," though mostly in the very words of Murray, was next invented to supply a deficiency which he at length discovered.
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