Much less then will, what is commonly called learning, serve the purpose; that is, a critical knowledge of ancient languages, and much reading of ancient authors: The greatest critic and most able grammarian of the last age, when he came to apply his learning and criticism to an English author, was frequently at a loss in matters of ordinary use and common construction in his own vernacular idiom."-- DR.

LOWTH, 1763: _Pref.

to Gram._, p.

vi.
23.

"To the pupils of our public schools the acquisition of their own language, whenever it is undertaken, is an easy task.