For he cannot but know from what work he is taking any particular sentence or paragraph, and those parts of a _grammar_, which are new to the eye of a great grammarian, may very well be credited to him who claims to have written the book.

I have thus disposed of his second reason for the omission of names and references, in compilations of grammar.
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There remains one more: "A work of this nature _would derive no advantage from it_, equal to the inconvenience of crowding the pages with a repetition of names and references." With regard to a small work, in which the matter is to be very closely condensed, this argument has considerable force.

But Murray has in general allowed himself very ample room, especially in his two octavoes.

In these, and for the most part also in his duodecimoes, all needful references might easily have been added without increasing the size of his volumes, or injuring their appearance.