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Updated: May 25, 2025
What a gusto in that which follows: "wherein it is profitable that he can orderly decline his noun, and his verb." His noun! The fine dream is fading away fast; and the least concern of a teacher in the present day is to inculcate grammar-rules. The modern schoolmaster is expected to know a little of every thing, because his pupil is required not to be entirely ignorant of any thing.
Under the humblest roof, the commonest person in plain clothes sits there massive, cheerful, yet formidable, like the Egyptian colossi. Neither Aristotle, nor Leibnitz, nor Junius, nor Champollion has set down the grammar-rules of this dialect, older than Sanscrit; but they who cannot yet read English, can read this.
Now the Quakers, though they defended the word thou for you on the notion, that they ought not to accustom their lips to flattery, defended it also strenuously on the notion, that they were strictly adhering to grammar-rules. But all such terms as 'thee knowest, and others of a similar kind, must recoil upon themselves as incorrect, and as censurable, even upon their own ground."
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