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Excerpt from A Treatise on the English Language: For the Use of Schools, Colleges, and Private Students To condense into one volume of convenient size and moderate price a comprehensive, minute, accurate, practical, interesting, well-methodized, and well-illustrated system of the principles which determine the pro per use of the English language; to furnish authors, editors, printers, teachers, lawyers, physicians, and clergymen, or any other persons that take some pride in keeping out of low and Slovenly habits in the use of Speech, with a convenient manual sufiicient with a good dictionary to supply them with whatever may be ordinarily needed to test the pro priety of any phrase, sentence, or paragraph, that can be formed in our language; to compress into one treatise what may have all the ad vantages of a series of books without their disadvantages, and be essen tially equivalent to a multitude of books now used in our schools under the various names of Primary Grammar, First Lessons, Elementary Grammar, Practical Grammar, Analytical Grammar, Grammar of Grammars, English Language, Analysis, Teacher, Murray's Exercises, Scholar's Companion, Etymology, Pronunciation, Punctuation, Rhetoric, Elements of Logic, Aids to Composition, &c &c.; to make it, in prao tical value, for the present age what Murray S large Grammar was for its age, and adapt it to all kinds of learners by making it simple, pro gressive, practical, and philosophical; to embody in it whatever seems worthy of preservation in all the best similar treatises one century back, and all the sound improvements Of modern times, together with the various criticisms scattered over our literature, and made by authors upon authors, by comedians in their ridicule of current faults in speech, and by critics and reviewers upon the prevailing literature; to enrich the entire subject by a personal survey of the best portions Of our literature, by new illustrations and examples, by constant compar ison of the idioms and analogies of our language with those of the languages which have furnished or influenced it, by what teachers, lo gicians, and mental philosophers have said and written on the art Of communicating knowledge, and by Observations and meditations of my own; to avoid whatever seems Objectionable I in kindred treatises. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
