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The Grammar of English Grammars

CHAPTER III
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Webster's well-known complaints of Murray's unfairness, had a far better cause than requital; for there was no generosity in ascribing them to peevishness, though the passages in question were not worth copying.

On perspicuity and accuracy, about sixty pages were extracted from Blair; and it requires no great critical acumen to discover, that they are miserably deficient in both.

On the law of language, there are fifteen pages from Campbell; which, with a few exceptions, are well written.

The rules for spelling are the same as Walker's: the third one, however, is a gross blunder; and the fourth, a, needless repetition.
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Were this a place for minute criticism, blemishes almost innumerable might be pointed out.


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