And their neglect of so desirable an accomplishment is the more remarkable and the more censurable on account of the facility with which those who are acquainted with the ancient languages may attain to excellence in their English style.
"Whatever the advantages or defects of the English language be, as it is our own language, it deserves a high degree of our study and attention.

* * * Whatever knowledge may be acquired by the study of other languages, it can never be communicated with advantage, unless by such as can write and speak their own language well."-- DR.

BLAIR: _Rhetoric_, Lect.

ix, p.

91.
30.