Our landlord was a sensible fellow; he had learned his grammar, and Dr. Johnson justly observed, that 'a man is the better for that as long as he lives.'

| | | | "The principle may be explained in a lineit is first | | learning the language, and then studying the grammar, and | | then learning (or trying to learn) the language.

I write confidentially, and wish this letter to be considered as private, Hazlitt has written a grammar for Godwin; Godwin sells it bound up with a treatise of his own on language; but the gray mare is the better horse.

For a time the child was taught French, English grammar, and the rudiments of Latin by a gentleman who used to regret that she was not a man, to have borne away the highest honours at college!

In 1767 he began his treatise De Poesi Asiatica, on the plan of Lowth's Praelectiones, and composed a Persian grammar for the use of a school-fellow, who was about to go to India.

"Will you be more careful of your grammar or shall I speak to you again?" "Well, I'd rather use bad grammar thanthanthan" she looked resentfully at her mother, her father.

But what apology is this, for that authorship which has produced so many grammars without originality?

He hates the grammar and Gradus, and loves guns, fishing-rods, horses, and boats.

For, not to compile an English grammar from others already extant, but to compose one more directly from the sources of the art, was the task which he at first proposed to himself.

He has all the qualities of imagination, invention, will, which form a great composer; but he does not know the grammar, and can hardly write....

And I'm going to tell it here in her own words, just as well as I can remember itbad grammar and all.

Key to concise German grammar.

Now, though it is not my purpose to pretend that I can so far simplify grammar, as to make all its rules comprehensible to children so young as those found in infant schools, I do think that enough may be imparted to them to render the matter more comprehensible, than it is usually found to be in after years.

It will be curious to compare that grammar and that dictionary with your own, and to see how far the two languages, the Algonquin and the Chippewa, agree with or differ from each other.

He took his grammar at sixty, which is a good age for one to begin this most interesting study, as by the time you have reached that age you have largely lost your capacity to sin.

Dr. Priestley, who in the preface to his third edition acknowledges his obligations to Johnson, and also to Lowth, thought it premature to attempt an English grammar; and contented himself with publishing a few brief "Rudiments," with a loose appendix consisting of "Notes and Observations, for the use of those who have made some proficiency in the language."

They went to school to get certain formal disciplines, to learn to read, write and cipher and to acquire formal grammar.

The work did not include Latin grammar, which consequently cannot as yet have attained that formal development which is implied in a properly scientific instruction in language; and it excluded music and the whole cycle of the mathematical and physical sciences.

"Ain't that Joel?" cried Mr. March, forgetting his grammar and his dignity at one and the same moment, and jumping excitedly to his feet.

When time cannot be allowed for this regular exercise, these examples may still be profitably rehearsed by a more rapid process, one pupil reading aloud the quoted false grammar, and an other responding to each example, by reading the intended correction from the Key.]

The first chapter of Etymology, as it exhibits only the distribution of words into the ten Parts of Speech, contains no false grammar for correction.

FUAD-MAHMED, PASHA, a Turkish statesman, diplomatist, and man of letters; studied medicine, but soon turned himself to politics; was much esteemed and honoured at foreign courts, at which he represented Turkey, for his skill, sagacity, and finesse; became Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1852; was hostile to the pretensions of Russia, and gave umbrage to the Czar; published a Turkish grammar, which is received with favour (1814-1869).

This is a work of great acuteness, labour, and learning; and might be of signal use to any one who should undertake to prepare a new or improved Latin grammar: of which, in my opinion, we have yet urgent need.

Beginners Hebrew grammar.

"Papa," said Charles one night, when he was, as usual, telling his papa what he had done in the course of the day,"I wish I might learn more geography, instead of any grammar; I like it so much better: I like geography very much, but I do not like grammar at all.