They appear not to be based on the principles of the language."-- _Grammar_, p.59.These are but specimens of his own frequent testimony against himself! Nor shall he find refuge in the impudent falsehood, that the things which I quote as his, are not his own.[14] These contradictory texts, and scores of others which might be added to them, are as rightfully his own, as any doctrine he has ever yet inculcated.

But, upon the credulity of ignorance, his high-sounding certificates and unbounded boasting can impose any thing.

They overrule all in favour of cue of the worst grammars extant;--of which he says, "it is now studied by more than one hundred thousand children and youth; and is more extensively used than _all other English grammars_ published in the United States."-- _Elocution_, p.347.The booksellers say, he receives from his publishers _ten cents a copy_, on this work, and that he reports the sale of _sixty thousand copies per annum_.

Such has of late been his public boast.

I have once had the story from his own lips, and of course congratulated him, though I dislike the book.