Can any grammarian forget that, in speaking of brute animals, male or female, we commonly use _which_, and never _who_?
But if _which_ must needs be _neuter_, the world is wrong in this .-- As for the latter example, it is right as it stands; and the correction is, in some sort, tautological.

The conjunctive adverb _after_ makes one of the actions subsequent to the other, and gives to the _visiting_ all the priority that is signified by the pluperfect tense.

"_After_ I _visited_ Europe," is equivalent to "_When_ I _had visited_ Europe." The whole argument is therefore void.[63] 33.

These few brief illustrations, out of thousands that might be adduced in proof of the faultiness of the common manuals, the author has reluctantly introduced, to show that even in the most popular books, with all the pretended improvements of revisers, the grammar of our language has never been treated with that care and ability which its importance demands.
It is hardly to be supposed that men unused to a teacher's duties, can be qualified to compose such books as will most facilitate his labours.
Practice is a better pilot than theory.

And while, in respect to grammar, the consciousness of failure is constantly inducing changes from one system to another, and almost daily giving birth to new expedients as constantly to end in the same disappointment; perhaps the practical instructions of an experienced teacher, long and assiduously devoted to the study, may approve themselves to many, as seasonably supplying the aid and guidance which they require.
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