For he who is acquainted with several grammars already, finds no difficulty in adding one more to the number.

And this, no doubt, is one of the reasons why English engages so small a proportion of their time and attention.

It is not frequently read, and is still less frequently written.

Its supposed facility, however, or some other cause, seems to have drawn upon it such a degree of neglect as certainly cannot be praised.

The students in those schools are often distinguished by their compositions in the learned languages, before they can speak or write their own with correctness, elegance, or fluency.