...valuable subjects, which are involved in their explanation? I think not. Gross vulgarity of language is a fault to be prevented ; but the proper prevention is to be got from habit—not rules. The proprictics of the English language are to be learned, like the proprictics of English manners,...

...Latham, condemning the usual school-drill in Lindley Murray, rightly remarks :—" Gross vulgarity ¡ea fault to be prevented ; but the proper prevention...question that good composition is far less dependent upon acquaintance with its laws, than upon practice and natural aptitude. A clear head, a quick imagination,...

...valuable subjects, which are involved in their explanation ? I think not. Gross vulgarity of language is a fault to be prevented; but the proper prevention is to be got from habit—not rules. The proprieties of the English language are to be learned, like the proprieties of English manners,...

...study of one's own language is almost exclusively disciplinal. * * * * Gross vulgarity of language is a fault to be prevented ; but the proper prevention is to be got from habit—not rules. The proprieties of the English language, like the proprieties of English manners, are to be learned...

...valuable subjects, which are involved in their explanation ? I think not. Gross vulgarity of language is a fault to be prevented; but the proper prevention is to be got from habit — not rules. The proprieties of the English language are to be learned, like the proprieties...

...valuable subjects, which are involved in their explanation ? I think not. Gross vulgarity of language is a fault to be prevented ; but the proper prevention is to be got from habit—not rules. The proprieties of the English language are to be learned, like the proprieties of English manners,...

...valuable subjects, which are involved in their explanation ? I think not. Gross vulgarity of language is a fault to be prevented ; but the proper prevention is to be got from habit—not rules. The proprieties of the English language are to be learned, like the proprieties of English manners,...

...valuable subjects, which are involved in their explanation ? I think not. Gross vulgarity of language is a fault to be prevented ; but the proper prevention is to be got from habit—not rules. The proprieties of the English language are to be learned, like the proprieties of English manners,...

...that a knowledge of the principles of reasoning neither makes, nor is essential to, a good rcasoner, is doubtless true. Thus, too, is it with grammar....question that good composition is far less dependent upon acquaintance with its laws, than upon practice and natural aptitude. A clear head, a quick imagination,...

...practice of the English language. The former is the principles of its grammar. Gross vulgarity of language is a fault to be prevented; but the proper prevention is to be got from habit, not rules. The proprieties of the English language are to be learned, like the proprieties of...