A Common-School Grammar of the English Language (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Language, said Sheridan, is the great instrument by which all the faculties of the mind are brought forward, moulded, and polished. He why travels over our extensive country can easily observe that wherever the people have a limited and obscure knowledge of language, there all the other elements of civilization and refinement are in a correspondingly undeveloped state; but that wherever it home is surrounded by the bean ties ef nature and art, there is also generally heard such language as reveals the presence of literature and the cultivation of thought and sensibility.

Language is at once the most useful, powerful, delicate, and durable instrument wielded by man. It materializes thought, so as to make it tangible, permanent, and transmissible; and it thus carries civilization into every nook and corner of the world. It receives the intellect, heart, and achievements of every generation; and bears forward the responsible bur den to be judged by every future generation. While the marble crumbles.

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