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With regard to the moral tendency of our labors, we may be here permitted to remark, that they will tend, if successful, to the suppression of ; and as the Spartans used to exhibit a tipsy slave to their children with a view to disgust them with drunkenness, so we, by giving a few examples here and there, of incorrect phraseology, shall expose, in their naked deformity, the vices of speech to the ingenious reader.

There being no other assignable motive for these and the like proceedings, it is reasonable to suppose that they are adopted, as schoolboys say, "for fun."

English Grammar is divided into four parts-Orthography, Etymology, Syntax, and Prosody;