_Verbs do not, in reality, express actions_; but they are intrinsically _the mere_ NAMES _of actions_."-- _Ib._, p.

37.
PHILOSOPHICAL GRAMMAR.--"I have thought proper to intersperse through the pages of this work, under the head of '_Philosophical Notes_,' an entire system of grammatical principles, as deduced from what _appears[11] to me_ to be the _most rational and consistent_ philosophical investigations."-- _Ib._, p.36.

"Johnson, and Blair, and Lowth, _would have been laughed at_, had they essayed to thrust _any thing like our_ modernized philosophical grammar _down the throats of their cotemporaries_."-- _Ib._, p.

143.
Is it not a pity, that "more than one hundred thousand children and youth" should be daily poring over language and logic like this?
27.

For the sake of those who happily remain ignorant of this successful empiricism, it is desirable that the record and exposition of it be made brief.