To parse rightly and fully, is nothing else than to understand rightly and explain fully; and whatsoever is well expressed, it is a shame either to misunderstand or to misinterpret.
13.

This study, when properly conducted and liberally pursued, has an obvious tendency to dignify the whole character.

How can he be a man of refined literary taste, who cannot speak and write his native language grammatically?
And who will deny that every degree of improvement in literary taste tends to brighten and embellish the whole intellectual nature?
The several powers of the mind are not so many distinct and separable agents, which are usually brought into exercise one by one; and even if they were, there might be found, in a judicious prosecution of this study, a healthful employment for them all.

The _imagination_, indeed, has nothing to do with the elements of grammar; but in the exercise of composition, young fancy may spread her wings as soon as they are fledged; and for this exercise the previous course of discipline will have furnished both language and taste, as well as sentiment.
14.

The regular grammatical study of our language is a thing of recent origin.