Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848, by S. BARRETT, JR., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York. TO THE YOUNG MEN'S ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF ALBANY, MORE USEFUL IN THE DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE, THE CULTIVATION OF INTELLECT THAN ANY OTHER INSTITUTION, ANCIENT OR MODERN, THIS ESSAY, DESIGNED TO SIMPLIFY THE STUDY OF THE LANGUAGES, AND FACILITATE THEIR ACQUISITION, BY INTRODUCING A SYSTEM OF SELF-INSTRUCTION, IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, BY The Author. 1 ADVERTISEMENT. WHEN we inform the student of language, that " one word belongs to another," we have told him all that pertains to language; for a perfect knowledge of the English, Greek and Latin grammars consists entirely in the abili ty to give the words, in the respective languages, their proper relation to other words; and ascertain the part of speech, from that relation; therefore, we have, together with a table of relations, advanced a number of THESES, or PROPOSITIONS, which we maintain as fixed and immutable truths; taken entirely from the Languages themselves, the perusal of which will advertise the scholar of the course pursued throughout the work. Further comment is needless. SOLOMON BARRETT JR. BARRETT'S ENGLISH, LATIN AND GREEK GRAMMARS. pp 240 in one volume, on fine paper and well bound. The CHEAPEST CLASSICAL work extant. DEAR FRIEND: Read this work attentively; and if you really wish to acquire a thorough knowledge of these languages, all you have to do is, to procure a copy of the work, and devote your leisure hours to its perusal, and you can not fail of acquiring such a knowledge as will enable you to use them with ease and accuracy for life, instead of that rough, uncouth jargon obtained from the old philology of the schools. The concurrent testimony of seventeen thousand American citizens, including the faculties of Union, Yale, Hamilton, and other colleges, (patrons of the work,) within a year after its first publication, is an irrefragible proof of the claims of this system to superiority over every other extant, showing it to be no charlatanerie, running wild among the ignorant, but the most valuable treatise on language for the use of business young men, families and schools, that has ever issued from the press. This work is never sold in a book store; as some gentlemen have a greater tact for, and interest in palming off on the community worthless old grammars, than of introducing improvements-in crying "Great is DIANA of the EPHESIANS," than in worshipping at the shrine of religion or reason. CONTENTS Being a Treatise on the Languages, English, Latin and PART FIRST. 1. The Ten Theses, applicable to all languages, 3. A Table, exhibiting the twenty-one relations by which every one of the eighty thousand words in English can be correctly parsed, 10 6. A copperplate engraving, exemplifying the relation 7. Corresponding and Exiled Conjunctions, 8. An Unbroken Sentence Fractured into its Logical Subject and Predicate; subsequently into the Parts of Speech, and punctuated, showing that the sentence is formed by the union of a being to its own existence or action: in other words, that the constituents of a sentence are a nomi- native (or being) represented as existing, acting, or being acted upon, and a verb, instead of being as the old grammarians tell us, a collec- 9. Exercises in Parsing English Poetry, in which 18 |