The Second Book of the Rational System of English Grammar: Designed to Enable One to Parse the Words of an English Sentence With Sound Judgment, and ... With Grammatical Propriety (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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The work in which I have attempted to form a consistent English Grammar with the retention of the old names, is also, in three books. This little vol ume is the second. In this part, I employ the common terms. And lest this work Should fall into the hands of a grammarian who has read my. Class book OF criticism, and he be surprised to find that I here use the very technicals which I there condemn, I will here say that my present opinion of these technicals is identical with that given of them in the class book or criticism.
After a careful examination of the Old theory, I felt sure that teachers would be glad to substitute the true system for it. But on proposing this system for adoption, I found them as loath to leave their prison house of error as was the old inmate of the Bastile, his cell of darkness. Hence, although the old structure is utterly demolished, and its fragments strewed from the commencement to the end of my class book or criticism, thousands still sing peans in honour of murray But, while I regret a want of success in my attempt to persuade the world to allow the old theory of English Gram mar to decay, and drop out of the memory of men, I rejoice in the hope that Imay yet persuade the people to accept of a substitute which, though slightly marred by the use of noun, verb, &c., is formed upon the true grammatical principles of the english language.
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