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The Grammar of English Grammars

PREFACE
The present performance is, so far as the end could be reached, the fulfillment of
a design, formed about twenty-seven years ago, of one day presenting to the
world, if I might, something like a complete grammar of the English language;—
not a mere work of criticism, nor yet a work too tame, indecisive, and uncritical;
for, in books of either of these sorts, our libraries already abound;—not a mere
philosophical investigation of what is general or universal in grammar, nor yet a
minute detail of what forms only a part of our own philology; for either of these
plans falls very far short of such a purpose;—not a mere grammatical compend,
abstract, or compilation, sorting with other works already before the public; for,
in the production of school grammars, the author had early performed his part;
and, of small treatises on this subject, we have long had a superabundance rather
than a lack.