Research Catalog

Title

A grammar of the English language / William Cobbett ; with an introduction by Lord Hattersley.

Author

Cobbett, William, 1763-1835

Publication

Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

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Details

Description

223 p.; 19 cm.

Summary

"William Cobbett (1763-1835) was (in the words of G.K. Chesterton) 'the noblest English example of the noble calling of the agitator'. His radicalism brought him into conflict with the authorities on many occasions, but he reserved a special kind of venom for politicians like Lord Castlereagh and the Duke of Wellington, for men of letters like the lexicographer Dr. Johnson, and the Fellows of English Colleges, 'who live by the sweat of other people's brows'." "The text is that of the 1823 edition, which includes Six Lessons 'intended to prevent Statesmen from using false grammar'."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Oxford language classics

Uniform Title

Oxford language classics

Subject

• English language > Grammar

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Roy Hattersley -- Definition of Grammar, and of its different Branches, or Parts -- Etymology. The different Parts of Speech, or Sorts of Words -- Etymology of Articles -- Etymology of Nouns -- Etymology of Pronouns -- Etymology of Adjectives -- Etymology of Verbs -- Etymology of Adverbs -- Etymology of Prepositions -- Etymology of Conjunctions -- Cautionary remarks -- Syntax generally considered -- Syntax. The Points and Marks made use of in Writing -- Syntax, as relating to Articles -- Syntax, as relating to Nouns -- Syntax, as relating to Pronouns -- Syntax, as relating to Adjectives -- Syntax, as relating to Verbs -- Syntax, as relating to Adverbs, Prepositions, and Conjunctions -- Speciments of false Grammar, taken from the writings of Doctor Johnson, and from those of Doctor Watts -- Errors and Nonsense in a King's Speech -- On putting Sentences together, and on figurative language -- Six lessons, intended to prevent Statesmen from using false Grammar, and from writing in an awkward manner -- On the Speech of the Right Honourable Manners Sutton, Speaker of the House of Commons -- On his Majesty's Speech, at the close of the session in 1819 -- On the note of Lord Castlereagh relative to the museums at Paris -- On the dispatch of the Duke of Wellington relative to the same subject -- On a note to Lord Castlereagh relative to the French Slave Trade -- On dispatches of the Marquis Wellesley relative to the State of Ireland in 1822.

ISBN

0198605080

LCCN

^^2002025264

OCLC

• 49204148
• SCSB-12169968

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library