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[10] The Latin word for _participle_ is _participium_, which makes _participio_ in the dative or the ablative case; but the Latin word for _partake_ is _participo_, and not ”_participio_”--G BROWN

[11] This sentence is ular verb ”_appears_” should be ations_”

should be ular--G BROWN

[12] ”What! a book have _no merit_, and yet be called for at the rate of _sixty thousand copies a year_! What a slander is this upon the public taste! What an insult to the understanding and discri to this reasoning, all the inhabitants of our land must be fools, except one man, and that man is GOOLD BROWN!”--KIRKHAM, _in the Knickerbocker_, Oct 1837, p 361

Well may the honest critic expect to be called a slanderer of ”the public taste,” and an insulter of the nation's ”understanding,” if both the merit of this vaunted book and the wisdom of its purchasers are to be measured and proved by the author's profits, or the publisher's account of sales!

But, possibly, between the intrinsic merit and the market value of some books there may be a difference Lord Byron, it is said, received from Murray his bookseller, nearly ten dollars a line for the Fourth Canto of Childe Harold, or about as much for every two lines as Milton obtained for the whole of Paradise Lost Is this the true ratio of the es in which they lived?

[13] Kirkhae only How able is that writer who is chargeable with the _greatest want_ of taste and discernard to the application of the final pause in reading blank verse, _nothing can betray a greater want of rhetorical taste and philosophical acumen_, than the directions of Mr Murray”--_Kirkhae either of the s; nor is it probable that this criticisinated with himself But, since it appears in his na the compiler whoist_,” as an untasteful dunce, and a teacher of _nonsense_: ”To say that, unless we 'make every _line_ sensible to the ear,' we mar the melody, and suppress the numbers of the poet, is _all nonsense_”--_Ibid_ See Murray's Grammar, on ”Poetical Pauses;” 8vo, p 260; 12mo, 210

[14] ”Now, in these instances, I should be fair ga_ difference, that I happen to present the doctrines and notions of _other writers_, and NOT my own, as stated by my learned censor”--KIRKHAM, _in the Knickerbocker_, Oct 1837, p 360 If the instructions above cited are not his own, there is not, within the lids of either book, a penny's worth that is His fruitful copy-rights are void in law: the ”learned censor's” pledge shall guaranty this issue--G B 1838

[15] I aist, as he professes to be, has so little _reverence_ in his crown He could not read the foregoing suggestion without scoffing at it Biblical truth is not powerless, though the scornful may refuse its correction--G B 1838

[16] Every schoolboy is fahtly understands the words ”_evil_” and ”_good_” to be _nouns_, and not _adjectives_

”The _evil_ that ood_ is oft interred with their bones”--SHAKSPEARE

_Julius Caesar, Act 3: Antony's Funeral Oration over Caesar's Body_

Kirkha the brackets_ in which he encloses the words that be supposes to be _understood_ in this couplet But he forgets two i, not the bard, but the grauish _his own_ amendments of what he quotes, and not those of an other man Hence the marks which he has used, would have been _i of the passage _good English_, and, consequently, does not avert the point ofReview of Kirkham's Grammar, was published as an extract from my manuscript, by the editors of the Knickerbocker, in their number for June, 1837 Four ave, hi and virulent article againstme, ”with emphatic force,” as ”_a knave, a liar, and a pedant_” The _enave; because I bore hih to quarrel for my own sake Its _imbecility_ clearly proved, that in this critique there is nothing _hich he could justly find fault_

Perceiving that no point of this arguround_, and satisfied hi the writer Of what _use_ this was, others rammarian survived the publication of my criticism about ten years, and, it is charitably hoped, died happily; while I have had, for a period soation_” was fit to confer It is not perceived, that ritten before these events, should now be altered or suppressed by reason of them With his pretended ”defence,” I shall now concern myself no further than simply to deny one remarkable assertion contained in it; which is this--that I, Goold Brown, ”at the funeral of Aaron Ely,” in 1830, ”praised, and _highly_ praised, this self-same Grammar, and declared it to be 'A GOOD WORK!'”--KIRKHAM, _in the Knickerbocker_, Oct, 1837, p 362 I treated him always courteously, and, on this solerammar; but, if this statement of his has any reasonable foundation, I know not what it is--G B in 1850

[17] See _Notes to Pope's Dunciad_, Book II, verse 140

[18] A modern namesake of the Doctor's, the _Rev David Blair_, has the following conception of the _utility_ of these speculations: ”To enable children to coe consist but of _nine kinds_, it will be found useful to explain how _savage tribes_ WHO _having no language_, would first invent one, beginning with interjections and nouns, and proceeding froht successively be called for by necessity or luxury”--_Blair's Pract Gram, Pref_, p vii

[19] ”Interjections, I _shewed_, or passionate exclamations, were the _first eles to one another, by those expressive cries and gestures which nature taught theh Blair's Lectures_, p 57

[20] ”It is certain that the verb was invented before the noun, in all the languages of which a tolerable account has been procured, either in ancient or uages_, Vol

I, p 326

[21] The Greek of this passage, together with a translation not very different froinal note, in _Harris's Hermes_, Book III, Chap 3d

[22] The Bible does not say positively that there was no diversity of languages _before the flood_; but, since the life-time of Adam extended fifty-six years into that of Lamech, the father of Noah, and two hundred and forty-three into that of Methuselah, the father of Lamech, with both of whom Noah was contemporary nearly six hundred years, it is scarcely possible that there should have occurred any such diversity, either in Noah's day or before, except froarded the eneral evil, which had had no parallel but in the curse pronounced after Adae of all the earth” was ”confounded,” Noah was yet alive, and he is computed to have lived 162 years afterwards; but whether in his day, or at how early a period, ”graht of, as a re speech and words, the consideration of therarate himself in those benedictions, of which, by his fault, he hath been deprived; and as he hath striven against the first general curse by the invention of all other arts, so hath he striven to coeneral curse, which was the confusion of tongues, by the art of graue is sues as have ceased to be vulgar tongues, and are turned only to learned tongues”--See _English Journal of Education_, Vol viii, p 444