Again: "A consonant is not only capable of being perfectly sounded without the help of a vowel, but, moreover, of forming, like a vowel, a separate syllable."-- _Kirkham's Elocution_, p.

32.
Take a second example.

He makes "ADJECTIVE PRONOUNS" a _prominent division_ and _leading title_, in treating of the pronouns proper; defines the term in a manner peculiar to himself; prefers and uses it in all his parsing; and yet, by the third sentence of the story, the learner is conducted to this just conclusion: "Hence, such a thing as an _adjective-pronoun_ cannot exist."-- _Grammar_, p.105.Once more.

Upon his own rules, or such as he had borrowed, he comments thus, and comments _truly_, because he had either written them badly or made an ill choice: "But some of these rules are foolish, trifling, and unimportant."-- _Elocution_, p.97.

Again: "Rules 10 and 11, rest on a sandy foundation.