Where invention and discovery are precluded, there is little room for novelty.

I have not laboured to introduce a system of grammar essentially new, but to improve the old and free it from abuses.

The mode of instruction here recommended is the result of long and successful experience.

There is nothing in it, which any person of common abilities will find it difficult to understand or adopt.

It is the plain didactic method of definition and example, rule and praxis; which no man who means to teach grammar well, will ever desert, with the hope of finding an other more rational or more easy.