There is little danger that it will long survive its author.

But the present subjects of it are sufficiently numerous to deserve some pity.

The following is a sample of the gentleman's method of achieving what he both justly and exultingly supposes, that Johnson, or Blair, or Lowth, could not have effected.

He scoffs at his own grave instructions, as if they had been the production of some _other_ impostor.

Can the fact be credited, that in the following instances, he speaks of _what he himself teaches_ ?--of what he seriously pronounces _"most rational and consistent ?"_--of what is part and parcel of that philosophy of his, which he declares, "will _in general be found to accord_ with the _practical theory_ embraced in the body of his work ?"--See _Kirkham's Gram._, p.