Excerpt from Principles General Grammar: Compiled and Arranged for the Use of Colleges and Schools ON entering upon the study of a foreign idiom, and comparing its grammar with that of his native tongue, the student can not help noticing the many features which they both have in common. Should he happen to know another language, he will, by further comparison, find these points of resemblance to become less in number, and less again with every succeeding language, until at last there will remain but few which are common to ...
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Excerpt from Principles General Grammar: Compiled and Arranged for the Use of Colleges and Schools ON entering upon the study of a foreign idiom, and comparing its grammar with that of his native tongue, the student can not help noticing the many features which they both have in common. Should he happen to know another language, he will, by further comparison, find these points of resemblance to become less in number, and less again with every succeeding language, until at last there will remain but few which are common to all, and these form the principles of all grammars - in other words, of General Grammar. Grammar may be viewed in two lights: either as a collection of rules which have to guide us in the expres sion of thoughts, or as an investigation of the principles of language deduced from the nature and relations of the ideas to be represented. In the first light, grammar, ap plying only to the facts of one language, is called special, and constitutes an art in the second, grammar, propos ing to explain the nature of words and their relations by the nature and relations of the things which they repte sent, and also to account for the mode of using them by a consideration of the mental operations on which it de pends, is said to be general, because it embraces the principles of all languages it then constitutes a science, being founded on the universal and immutable laws of external nature and of the human mind. There are thus as many particular grammars as there are languages; Whereas there is only one general grammar - one science of language. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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