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ADAPTED TO THE

DIFFERENT CLASSES OF LEARNERS.

WITH

AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING

RULES AND OBSERVATIONS,

FOR ASSISTING THE MORE ADVANCED STUDENT'S

TO WRITE WITH PERSPICUITT AND ACCURACY.

"They who are learning to compose and arrange their fentences with accu-
racy and order, are learning, at the fame time, to think with accuracy and
order." BLAIR.

Br LINDLEY MURRAY.

THE NINTH EDITION,

WITH CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS.

NEW-YORK:

PRINTED AND SOLD BY ISAAC COLLINS AND SON,
No. 189, PEARL-STREET.

INTRODUCTION.

W HEN the number and variety of English Grammars already published, and the ability with which fome of them are written, are confidered, little can be expected from a new compilation, befides a careful felection of the most ufeful matter, and fome degree of improvement in the mode of adapting it to the understanding, and the gradual progrefs of learners. In thefe refpects fomething, perhaps, may yet be done, for the eafe and advantage of young perfons.

IN books defigned for the instruction of youth, there is a medium to be obferved, between treating the fubject in fo extenfive and minute a manner, as to embarrass and confuse their minds, by offering too much at once for their comprehenfion; and, on the other hand, conducting it by fuch fhort and general precepts and obfervations, as convey to them no clear and precife information. A diftribution of the parts, which is either defective or irregular, has also a tendency to perplex the young understanding, and to retard its knowledge of the principles of literature. A distinct general view, or outline, of all the effential parts of the study in which they are engaged; a gradual and judicious fupply of this outline; and a due arrangement of the divifions, according to their natural order and connexion, appear to be among the best means of enlightening the minds of youth, and of facilitating their acquifition of knowledge. The Compiler of this work, at the fame time that he has endeavoured to avoid a plan, which may be too concise or too extensive, defective in its parts or irregular in their difpofition, has ftudied to render his fubject fufficiently eafy, intelligible, and comprehenfive. He does not presume to have completely attained these objects.

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