To admit these, and some other additions, the "comprehensive system-of grammar" was gradually extended from 144 small duodecimo pages, to 228 of the ordinary size.

And, in this compass, it was finally stereotyped in 1829; so that the ninety-four editions published since, have nothing new for history.
35.

But the publication of an other work designed for schools, "_An Essay an Elocution_" shows the progress of the author's mind.

Nothing can be more radically opposite, than are some of the elementary doctrines which this gentleman is now teaching; nothing, more strangely inconsistent, than are some of his declarations and professions.

For instance: "A consonant is a letter that cannot be perfectly sounded without the help of a vowel."-- _Kirkham's Gram._, p.19.