They are also very meagre as a whole, and altogether inadequate to their purpose; many things that frequently occur in the language, not being at all exemplified in them, or even explained in the grammar itself.

When we consider how exceedingly important it is, that the business of a school should proceed without loss of time, and that, in the oral exercises here spoken of, each pupil should go through his part promptly, clearly, correctly, and fully, we cannot think it a light objection that these forms, so often to be repeated, are so badly written.

Nor does the objection lie against this writer only: "_Ab uno disce omnes_." But the reader may demand some illustrations.[61] 30.

First--from his etymological parsing: "O Virtue! how amiable thou art!" Here his form for the word _Virtue_ is--"_Virtue_ is a _common substantive, of_ the _neuter_ gender, _of the third_ person, _in the_ singular number, _and the_ nominative case."-- _Murray's Gram._, 8vo, Vol.

ii, p.2.