A

PHILOLOGICAL

GRAMMAR

OF

THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE;

IN A SERIES OF LESSONS.

CONTAINING

MANY ORIGINAL AND IMPORTANT OBSERVATIONS ON THE
NATURE AND CONSTRUCTION OF LANGUAGE;

ON THE COMPARATIVE MERITS OF MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED
TREATISES ON ENGLISH GRAMMAR;

ON THE

VARIOUS NEW AND POPULAR MODES OF TEACHING;

AND ON

THE NECESSITY OF EXAMINING THE PRINCIPLES OF GRAMMARS
AND GRAMMARIANS.

BY THOMAS MARTIN.

"A fructibus eorum agnoscetis eos." Matt. vii. 16.

LONDON:

C. AND J. RIVINGTON, AND G. AND W. B. WHITTAKER ;
BEILBY, KNOTT, AND BEILBY, BIRMINGHAM ;

AND ALL OTHER BOOKSELLERS.

1824.