Gauss, C: Comprehensive English Grammar -

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Excerpt from A Comprehensive English Grammar: For Schools, Colleges, Families and Private Students

The most important item of secular human knowledge is no doubt the sentence. Grammar; which treats of the construction, use and application of the sentence; is the sweetest of sciences. AS a thought and a sentence are exact counterparts of each other, the one having its existence within and the other without the mind; so Psychology, Which treats of the one, and Grammar, which treats of the other, are correlative branches of learning and together have a parental relation to all other sciences.

To the scientific mind nothing affords more gratification. Than the analysis of any generality and, for the exercise of this power, neither Botany, Logic nor Chemistry affords a finer field than Grammar. The analysis of the sentence into its elements is most interesting. As; in the granulation of the diamond, ice] and spar or any other crystal; the grains and, in its pulverization, each particle of dust, invisible to the natural eye, are seen, under the microscope, to possess the same crystalline form as the original. So; in separating a com plex sentence into its elements, these into their elements, these into theirs and so on to the last and least word; each part is found to have the same things true of it, that are true of the original sentence.

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