3/39 And though there be some geniuses who affect to despise the trammels of grammar rules, to whom it must be conceded that many things which have been unskillfully taught as such, deserve to be despised; yet it is true, as Dr.Adam remarks, that, "The study of Grammar has been considered an object of great importance by the wisest men in all ages."-- _Preface to Latin and English Gram._, p. Grammar bears to language several different relations, and acquires from each a nature leading to a different definition. _First_, It is to language, as knowledge is to the thing known; and as doctrine, to the truths it inculcates. In these relations, grammar is a science. |