 But more particularly to determine the proper season for grammar; I do not see how it can reasonably be made any one's study, but as an introduction to rhetoric : when it is thought time to put any one upon the care of polishing his tongue, and of speaking...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 681826Full view - About this book
 | Sydney Smith - English literature - 1844 - 348 pages
...one upon the care of polishing his tongue, and of speaking better than the illiterate, then is the time for him to be instructed in the rules of grammar,...the one to him that has no need of the other. Where rhetoric is not necessary, grammar may be spared. I know not why any one should waste his time, and... | |
 | Sydney Smith - English literature - 1844 - 412 pages
...upon the care of polishing his tongue, and of speaking better than the illiterate, then is the lime for him to be instructed in the rules of grammar,...the one to him that has no need of the other. Where rhetoric is not necessary, grammar may be spared. I know not why any one should waste his time, and... | |
 | Sydney Smith - English literature - 1844 - 348 pages
...one upon the care of polishing his tongue, and of speaking better than the illiterate, then is The time for him to be instructed in the rules of grammar,...according to the exact rules of the tongue, which is one p:irt of elegancy, there is little use of the one to him that has no need of the study of grammar to... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1846 - 368 pages
...one upon the care of polishing his tongue, and of speaking better than the illiterate, then is the time for him to be instructed in the rules of grammar,...of the tongue, which is one part of elegancy, there a little use of the one to him that has no need of the other. Where rhetoric is not necessary, grammar... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1847 - 524 pages
...anyone upon the care of polishing his tongue, and of speaking better than the illiterate, then is the time for him to be instructed in the rules of grammar,...the one to him that has no need of the other. Where rhetoric is not necessary, grammar may be spared. I know not why anyone should waste his time, and... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1848 - 520 pages
...one upon the care of polishing his tongue, and of speaking better than the illiterate, then is the time for him to be instructed in the rules of grammar,...the one to him that has no need of the other. Where rhetoric is not necessary, grammar may be spared. I know not why any one should waste his time, and... | |
 | Thomas Kelt - Mechanical engineering - 1849 - 424 pages
...any one on the care of polishing his tongue, and of speaking better than the illiterate, then is the time for him to be instructed in the rules of grammar, and not before : for grammar is designed not only to teach men to speak, but to speak correctly, and according to the exact rules... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 498 pages
...one upon the care of polishing his tongue, and of speaking better than the illiterate, then is the time for him to be instructed in the rules of grammar,...the one to him that has no need of the other. Where rhetoric is not necessary, grammar may be spared. I know not why any one should waste his time, and... | |
 | Mechanical engineering - 1855 - 420 pages
...any one on the care of polishing his tongue, and of speaking better than the illiterate, then is the time for him to be instructed in the rules of grammar, and not before : for grammar is designed not only tc teach men to speak, but to speak correctly, and according to the exact rules... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1859 - 1360 pages
...upon the ire of polishing his tongue, and of '[•caking better than the illiterate, then :• the time for him to be instructed in the rules of grammar,...and not before. For grammar being to teach men not to§peak,but to speak correctly, and acr-'ir ting to the exact rub's of the tongue, *hk-h is one part... | |
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