COMPOSITION._English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Accompanied by a compendium, embracing a new systematic order of parsing, a new system of punctuation, exercises in false syntax, and a system of philosophical grammar, in notes, to which are added an appendix and a key to the exercises : designed for the use of schools and private learners

It may be laid down as a maxim of eternal truth, that _good sense_ is

the foundation of all good writing. One who understands a subject well,

will scarcely write ill upon it.

Rhetoric, or the art of persuasion, requires in a writer, the union of

good sense, and a lively and chaste imagination. It is, then, her

province to teach him to embellish his thoughts with elegant and

appropriate language, vivid imagery, and an agreeable variety of

expression. It ought to be his aim,

"To mark the point where sense and dulness meet."

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