"We have had no grammarian, within the compass of our critical career, who has employed so much labour and judgment upon our native language, as the author of these volumes. We are of opinion, that this edition of Mr. Murray's works on English Grammar, deserves a place in Libraries, and will not fail to obtain it." BRITISH CRITIC, Nov. 1809. "We have read this work with sufficient care to be able to pronounce upon it, as a work of great correctness and perfection. The parts which we would select as deserving of peculiar praise, and as calculated to afford most satisfaction to the person who reads the Grammar in more advanced life, for the purpose of recovering and re-impressing what he learned in his youth, are, that on Syntax, and the Appendix to the first volume, containing rules and observations for assisting young persons to write with perspicuity and accuracy, &c. There is considerable acuteness displayed under both these important heads.-The large number of examples in this work is of great importance, not only as illustrating the several rules which the author lays down, but as putting a reader, even of inferior ability, into a capacity of judging for himself how far the rules themselves are just. We cannot dismiss these volumes without observing, that as they are intended for the higher classes of readers, they will be found particularly serviceable to instructers, to young persons who have left school, and to foreigners." CHRISTIAN OBSERVER, Nov. 1809. "Mr. Murray's English Grammar and Exercises have long maintained their reputation, as the works best adapted for the initiation of students in the principles of the English language. They are now united in an approved edition; printed with a larger letter, and on a finer paper, in a form suited to the Library. The additions, it is stated, occupy more than ninety pages of the first volume; and are interspersed throughout the book. The whole well deserves the careful perusal of every student of our language; containing a copious and skilful analysis of its principles, and many just and acute remarks on the peculiarities of its idiom and construction." ANNUAL REVIEW, 1808. RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE AUTHOR'S DUODECIMO GRAMMAR, EXERCISES, AND Key. "Mr. Murray's Grammar, Exercises, and Key to the Exercises, form altogether, by far the most complete and judi cious analysis of the English language, that has hitherto been published. The rules for composition are excellent; the examples are selected with taste and judgment; and the execution of the whole displays an unusual degree of critical acuteness and sagacity." ANNUAL REVIEW, 1802. "Mr. Murray's English Grammar, English Exercises, and Abridgment of the English Grammar, claim our attention, on account of their being composed on the principle we have so frequently recommended, of combining religious and moral improvement with the elements of scientific knowledge. But as it is not a part of our plan, to enter into a particular examination of works of this nature, we shall only say, that they have long been in high estimation." "The late learned Dr. Blair gave his opinion of them in the following terms:- The Grammar, with the Exercises and 'the Key in a separate volume, I esteem as a most excellent 'performance. I think it superior to any work of that nature 'we have yet had; and am persuaded that it is, by much, the 'best Grammar of the English language extant. Most useful 'these books must certainly be to all who are applying them'to the arts of composition.' GUARDIAN OF EDUCATION, July, 1803. "This Grammar is a publication of much merit, and fully answers the professions in the title. The Appendix contains some of the best rules for writing elegantly, and with propriety that we recollect to have seen." MONTHLY REVIEW, July, 1796. "We have been much pleased with the perusal of Mr. Murray's English Exercises. They occupy with distinguished excellence, a most important place in the science of the English language; and as such, we can warmly recommend them to the teachers of schools, as well as to all those who are desirous of attaining correctness and precision in their native tongue." MONTHLY REVIEW, July, 1797. "This book (English Exercises) has been accidentally mislaid; but we willingly repeat the praise we formerly gave the author for his English Grammar. There is great judgment shown in these exercises; and, what is no common merit, the greatest perspicuity in the adaptation of the examples to the several rules." BRITISH CRITIC, Nov. 1798. "These exercises are in general well calculated to promote the purpose of information, not only with regard to orthography and punctuation, but also in point of phraseology, Syntax, and precise perspicuity of composition.' CRITICAL REVIEW, Oct. 1797. "The very general approbation, which this grammar has received from the public, is sufficiently indicative of its merits: and we have much pleasure in confirming the decision of the public, respecting its superiority over all other English Grammars. We request the author to continue his exertions for the instruction of the rising generation." CRITICAL REVIEW, June, 1817. "The materials of this Grammar have been carefully and judiciously selected; its arrangement is distinct, and well adapted to the purpose of instruction; and its expression is simple, perspicuous, and accurate. The Appendix contains a great variety of useful instructions on purity, propriety, precision, perspicuity, strength, and elegance of language." ANALYTICAL REVIEW, June, 1796. "The examples contained in these Exercises, are selected with great judgment; and are very happily adapted to the purpose of correcting common errors in writing and speaking. They afford the learner a large field of employment, which, carefully gone through, either in writing or orally, will not fail to produce a habit of attention to accuracy. With respect to the matter, as well as the language, of these examples, we are much pleased with the author's choice: both vulgarity and peculiarity of sentiment, are judiciously avoidANALYTICAL REVIEW, September, 1797. ed." "The principle upon which all the publications of Mr. Murray, for the instruction of the rising generation, are founded, is such as gives him an unquestionable claim to public protection. The man who blends religion and morals with the elements of scientific knowledge, renders an eminent service to society: and where ability of execution is added to excellence of design, as in the present case, the claim becomes irresistible." ANTI-JACOBIN REVIEW, January, 1804. "Mr. Murray's Grammar, as well as his other publications, has received the uniform approbation of literary characters and journalists. We do not hesitate warmly to recommend them to the instructers of youth in every part of the United States, as eminently conducive to pure morality and religion, and to the acquisition of a correct and elegant style. They deserve to take place of all other works of the same kind which are now used in our schools." THE AMERICAN REVIEW AND LITERARY JOURNAL, for July, August, and September, 1801. ૨૧ "Mr. Lindley Murray's Grammar of the English tongue, has grown into high repute. The demand for it is so frequent, that already a ninth edition is published. This contains many corrections and additions, by which it is greatly improved, as well as somewhat enlarged. In Great Britain, the sale and circulation are uncommonly rapid and extensive. And as a proof of the good opinion entertained of it in America, the professors of the colleges at New-York, at Princeton, and at New-Haven, have adopted it as an elementary book of instruction, in their respective seminaries. A work so well calculated to be useful and popular; so judiciously arranged; and executed with so much taste and critical skill, well deserves to be put into the hands of every person who studies the language which it is intended to elucidate." MEDICAL AND LITERARY REPOSITORY, for May, June, and "The celebrity which this grammar has obtained, renders it needless for us to say more, than that, in a short space of time, it has come to the ninth edition." IMPERIAL REVIEW, April, 1804. "Our sentiments with regard to the omission or insertion of the relative pronoun, are exactly stated by Mr. Lindley Murray, the ingenious author of the best English Grammar, beyond all comparison, that has yet appeared." IMPERIAL REVIEW, September, 1805. "We have to close our avowal of the pleasure, with which we have read this excellent work, (the Grammar,) by expressing our entire approbation of the author's Appendix; which will enable the student to make a proper use, in composition, of the instructions dispersed through the grammar. It concludes with a serious and affectionate exhortation to youth; which manifests the purity and dignity of the author's principles, as the general execution of his work demonstrates his talents and research. 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