"Dictionaries were compiled, which comprised all the words, together with their several definitions, or the sense each one expresses and conveys to the mind.

These words were analyzed and classed according to their essence, attributes, and functions.

Grammar was made a rudiment leading to the principles of all thoughts, and teaching by simple examples, the general classification of words and their subdivisions in expressing the various conceptions of the mind.

Grammar is then the key to the perfect understanding of languages; without which we are left to wander all our lives in an intricate labyrinth, without being able to trace back again any part of our way."-- _Chazotte's Essay on the Teaching of Languages_, p.

45.
Again: "Had it not been for his dictionary and his grammar, which taught him the essence of all languages, and the natural subdivision of their component parts, he might have spent a life as long as Methuselah's, in learning words, without being able to attain to a degree of perfection in any of the languages."-- _Ib._, p.50.