Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as a private reading of the books from which the lectures are taken.

I know of nothing that can be best taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shown.

You may teach chymistry by lectures--you _might_ teach the making of shoes by lectures." -- _Boswell's Life of Johnson_.
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With singular ignorance and untruth, this gentleman claims to have invented a better method of analysis than had ever been practised before.
Of other grammars, his preface avers, "They have _all overlooked_ what the author considers a very important object; namely, _a systematick order of parsing_."-- _Grammar_, p.9.And, in his "Hints to Teachers," presenting himself as a model, and his book as a paragon, he says: "By pursuing this system, he can, with less labour, advance a pupil _farther_ in the practical knowledge of this _abstruse science_, in _two months_, than he could in _one year_, when he taught in the _old way_."-- _Grammar_, p.

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What his "_old way_" was, does not appear.