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“GRAMMAR.”
― Goold Brown, The Grammar of English Grammars

“INTRODUCTION”
― Goold Brown, The Grammar of English Grammars

“Speech results from the joint exercise of the best and noblest faculties of human nature, from our rational understanding and our social affection; and is, in the proper use of it, the peculiar ornament and distinction of man, whether we compare him with other orders in the creation, or view him as an individual preëminent among his fellows.”
― Goold Brown, The Grammar of English Grammars

“Language, in the proper sense of the term, is peculiar to man; so that, without a miraculous assumption of human powers, none but human beings can make words the vehicle of thought.”
― Goold Brown, The Grammar of English Grammars