INTRODUCTION

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ENGLISH GRAMMAR:

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CRITICAL NOTES.

A NEW EDITION, CORRECTED.

Nam ipfum Latine loqui, eft illud quidem in magna laude ponendum; fed non tam fua fponte, quam quod eft a plerifque neglectum. Non enim tam præclarum eft fcire Latine, quam turpe nefcire; neque tam id mihi oratoris boni, quam civis Romani, proprium videtur. CICERO.

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MDCCLXXXV1I.

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PREFACE.

THE English Language hath been much cultivated during the last two hundred years. It hath been confiderably pelifhed and refined; its bounds have been greatly enlarged; its energy, variety, richness, and elegance, have been abundantly proved, by numberless trials, in verfe and in profe, upon all fubjects, and in every kind of Style: but, whatever other improvements it may have received, it hath made no advances in Grammatical Accuracy. Hooker is one of the earliest writers, of confiderable note, within the period above-mentioned: let his writings be compared with the beft of thofe of more modern date; and, I believe, it will be found, that in correctness, pro

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