The Institutes of English Grammar: Methodically Arranged With Copipus Language Lessons; Also a Key to the Examples of False Syntax; Designed for the Use of Schools, Academies, and Private Students (Classic Reprint)

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Tee school-book now pretty well-known as Brown's Institutes of English Grain mar, was my first attempt at authorship in the character of a grammarian; and, satisfactory as it has been to the many thousands whc~have used it, it has nevera theless, like all other not incorrigible attempts in this line, been found susceptible of sundry important emendations. So that I must believe with Murray, that, Works of this nature admit of repeated improvements; and are, perhaps, never complete. It cannot, however, be said in my favour, as it has been in commendation of this author, that, He went'ou examining and correcting his grammar through all its?orty editions, till he brought it to the utmost degree of perfection; but something has been done in this way, three or four of the early editions of the Institutes having been severally retouched and improved by the author's hand; and now, an undimine ished demand for the work having continued to Spread its reputation, I have at length the satisfaction to have endeavoured yet once, again to render it still more worthy of the public favour.

The time which has elapsed since the author first published this work, has been mainly Spent in labours and studies tending very directly to enlarge and mature his knowledge of Englis_h Grammarmand, especially, to better his acquaintance with the great variety of books and essays which have been written upon it. The principal result of these labours and studies has been given to the world in his large work entitled The Grammar of English Grammars. To conform the future editions of these Institutes more nearly to the text of this large Grammar, to supply some deficiences which have been thought to lessen the comparative value of the former work, to divide the book more systematically into chapters and subdivisions, and to correct a few typographical errors which had crept in, were the objects contemplated in the revision which has now been effected.

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