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The Grammar of English Grammars

CHAPTER III
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In his last "Address to Teachers," he says, "He may doubtless be permitted emphatically to say with Prospero, '_Your breath has filled my sails_.'"-- _Elocution_, p.18.If this boasting has any truth in it, he ought to be satisfied.

But it is written, "He that loveth silver, shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase." Let him remember this.[15] He now announces three or four other works as forthcoming shortly.

What these will achieve, the world will see.

But I must confine myself to the Grammar.
37.

In this volume, scarcely any thing is found where it might be expected.
"The author," as he tells us in his preface, "has not followed the common 'artificial and unnatural arrangement adopted by most of his predecessors;' _yet he_ has endeavoured to pursue a more judicious one, namely, '_the order of the understanding_.'"-- _Grammar_, p.12.But if this is the order of his understanding, he is greatly to be pitied.


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