JB_036_002_001.xml

Title: [1821. April 20. First Lines.]

Description: 1821. April 20.

First Lines.

(2.)

Preface

In the character of an object or As a standard of reference, the work at large, if compleated,

may be found of use, in the whole or in part, to one or other of three

purposes — adoption, avoidance, or amendment.

To these same purposes may even this imperfect and

inadequate sketch be found of use according to the extent of it,

and according to the measure of its aptitude.

By this or that reader, some of the topics will be found

too copiously treated of; others, too scantily: some that will have

been looked for will not be found.

In regard to such of the topics as have been treated of

in the Author's former works, published and unpublished together,

whatever facility may have been afforded, much perplexity was mixed

with it: what to notice, what to leave unnoticed: of that which

is noticed, what to notice by reference only, what by quotation,

what by abridgement: where views have altered what to amend, what

to leave unamended.

To this or that reader, where details have been omitted,

the general matter may thus have been rendered incomprehensible

or at least obscure. Had these details been given, the sketch would,

instead of being a sketch by anticipation, have been so far the

work at large.

A passage which, to the bulk of readers, may have

appeared appear incomprehensible or obscure, may, to one or other of the

three purposes abovementioned, be found serviceable of use by him who

shall sit down to the perusal of it with the eye of a legislator.

This, if it has any, will be its principal use.

Of the vast field over the whole of which it was necessary

that, for the purpose of this stretch, the eye of the author

should for this purpose carry itself, some parts there may be found are to which

it had not till now applied itself. In regard to these, how much

greater the degree of imperfections will naturally be is obvious.

JB_102_501.xml

Title: [16 Nov r. 1815 Chrestomathia]

Description: 16 Nov r. 1815

Chrestomathia

Universal Grammar

'.1. Introduction

The circumstance by which, at the present time in particular, the prospect of being able, in relation to this at present abstruse branch of art and science, to convey instruction on terms of hitherto unprecedented advantage, is the discovery made by Horne Tooke: that discovery by which the relation that has place [between] all these incomprehensible parts of speech on the one part and certain of the better understood parts of speech on the other part, has been brought to view, by which the import of certain till then incomprehensible parts of speech was made known by shewing their identity with other parts of speech, the import of which was not thus abstruse.

The explanation of this discovery of his, having been left by him in an unfinished state, this[?] imperfection may perhaps be referred to as having in some measure been the cause why no new system of Universal Grammar, constructed with the help of the lights thrown on the subject by that discovery, hath as yet been given to the world. But to the purposes here in question, to any one who will be at the pains of availing himself of them, the light afforded by that discovery will, it is believed, be found quite sufficient.

JB_003_190.xml

Title: [8 Dec. 1801 Maximum Conclusion]

Description: 8 Dec. 1801

Maximum

Conclusion

Temperance

3

The motives by which the one of us may have been led induced prompted exerted to

call forth the exertion and the other to exhibit it - are among those topics

which the public is not too fond of amusing itself with - but which in fact /in

the eye of reason/, are beside as well as beneath its notice.