Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Manual of Practical English Grammar, on a New and Easy Plan: For Schools, Families and Self-Instructors
The writer of this Manual has consulted a respectable number of the best philological works, with a sedulous and candid attention, and without aiming at a servile, sequacious tread in the footsteps of others, has yet endeavored to profit by their labors. This is a modification and enlargement of a treatise, published many years since, by the writer of this, for his friends of the olden time, whose approbation of it is sensibly remem bered; and whose descendants, as well as his own, and all the patrons bf this brief literary attempt, he trusts, may derive some benefit from this renewal of his labors. He had prepared most of the materials for this book before the weight of declining years admonished him of the near approach of the night in which no man can work. He does not suppose he has pro duced a work which neither fire, nor ?ood, nor the corroding tooth of time shall be able to destroy when he appreciates the excellence of others, and when' he considers the probable mu tations of language, the capricious affectation of innovators upon approved and long established usage, and the shifting changes of literary as well as other fashions which bid defiance to abler conservative pens, than any which he assumes to bold but, if he shall contribute with others to the advancement ot useful education by furnishing his friends and the public with what the title page proposes, his main design will be aecom plished and his ambition satisfied. How well he has succeeded in this design, the judgment of a discerning public will decide.
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