The Institutes of English Grammar, Methodically Arranged : With Forms of Parsing and Correcting, Examples for Parsing, Questions for Examination, Raise Syntax for Correction, Exercises for Writing, Observations for the Advanced Student, Methods of Analysis

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While some have thus wasted their energies in eccentric flights, vainly suppos that the learning of ages would give place to their whimsical eories; others, it more success, not better deserved, have multiplied grammars almost innumerably, abridging or modifying the books they had used in childhood. So that the who. At all acquainted with the origin and character of the various compends us int duced into our schools, cannot but desire a work which shall deserve a more exteus and more permanent atronage, based upon better claims. For, as Lord Bacon i serves, the number of -written books is not to be diminished by ceasing to write,i by writing others which, like Aaron's serpent, shall swallow up the spurious.

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