A Grammar of the English Language: In Two Treatises. The First, Containing Rules for Every Part of Its Construction; ... The Second, Shewing the Nature of the Several Parts of Speech, ... By William Ward, ... |
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Page ix
... given that fhew what is right in every Part of English Conftruction : But when fuch Rules are laid down , the Learner should be taught to refer to them continually . And if your Scholars are Children or Foreigners , you need not ' doubt ...
... given that fhew what is right in every Part of English Conftruction : But when fuch Rules are laid down , the Learner should be taught to refer to them continually . And if your Scholars are Children or Foreigners , you need not ' doubt ...
Page xii
... given Occafion to this which Inow lay before the Reader . The former Treatife was not adapted to the Ufe of Schools ; but was defigned for the Confi- deration of Men of Science , and chiefly of those who have been much converfant in the ...
... given Occafion to this which Inow lay before the Reader . The former Treatife was not adapted to the Ufe of Schools ; but was defigned for the Confi- deration of Men of Science , and chiefly of those who have been much converfant in the ...
Page xiii
... given fuch an Account of the Conceptions annexed to Nouns and Verbs as enables us , from the Nature of thefe Conceptions , to deduce the Reasons of every Part of Construction : Yet till this is done , can it be imagined that the Theory ...
... given fuch an Account of the Conceptions annexed to Nouns and Verbs as enables us , from the Nature of thefe Conceptions , to deduce the Reasons of every Part of Construction : Yet till this is done , can it be imagined that the Theory ...
Page xvii
... given in Effect , and with its principal Difficul- ties , the whole Plan of a Speculative or Theoretic Grammar , with regard to the English Language : And my Reason for doing it is , that by fome Letters which I have received , and by ...
... given in Effect , and with its principal Difficul- ties , the whole Plan of a Speculative or Theoretic Grammar , with regard to the English Language : And my Reason for doing it is , that by fome Letters which I have received , and by ...
Page xviii
... given me Satisfaction ; yet they are of fo great Reputation , that the Syftem of one or other of them has been followed with little Alteration by every every fucceeding Writer on Grammar : Nay the Grammaire Raisonnée Xvii PREFACE .
... given me Satisfaction ; yet they are of fo great Reputation , that the Syftem of one or other of them has been followed with little Alteration by every every fucceeding Writer on Grammar : Nay the Grammaire Raisonnée Xvii PREFACE .
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