However not 'till I had communicated to you my Design for your Advice,
and had receiv'd your repeated Exhortation, and Encouragement to the
Undertaking.
The Method I have used, is neither entirely new, out of a Fondness
and Affectation of Novelty: nor exactly the same with what has been
in use, in teaching the learned Languages. I have retain'd the old
Division of the Parts of Speech, nor have I rejected the other common
Terms of _Grammar_; I have only endeavour'd to explain them in such a
manner, as to hope they may be competently understood, by those whose
Education, hath not allow'd them an Acquaintance with the Grammars of
other Languages. There is one Addition to what your self and Mr.
_Thwaites_ have done on this Subject, for which you will, I imagine,
readily pardon me: I have given most, if not all the _Grammatical_
Terms in true old _Saxon_, from _Aelfrick_'s Translation of _Priscian_,
to shew the _polite_ Men of our Age, that the Language of their
Forefathers is neither so barren nor barbarous as they affirm, with
equal Ignorance and Boldness.
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