Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-02-23
NO. g0@o
The Amerisa an M

VV>HlS work, together with one entitled SAN ArrIAI
FROM rHE PRESENT POPULAR SYSTEMS OF FSsi ISL
GRAMMAR, TO COMMON SEssE, may be had at the Book
Stores in this place, also at those in the city of Balti.
Inc JoAOW'ng are the names of some Of the gentlemen ,cho
recommended this iVork before IL possessed the Improved
state IN ,chich 1t is here presented.
De Witt Clinton; Eliphalet Mott, President of the U.
Mon College; professor Yates, Union College; Rev.
John Finlay, A. NJ. Baltimore; F. C. Schaefer. Pastor
of Christ Church, New York; DIR. Cunning, Nev York;
Rev. ID. II. Barnes, classical teacher, New York, and
President Of the American Teachers Society;J J. Hoxie,
Principal of Philom Academy; DIR. Samuel Ackerly;
Rev. Daniel Parker, principal Vt Broad-street Academyi
Rev. Solomon Brown, principal of the Classical and
BellesLettres Academy, Wallstreet, New York, and
Secretary of the American Teachers Society; Rev.
Samuel Blatchford, Lansingburg; Rev. DR.. John Ches-
ter, Albany; DIR. James, Albany; W, A. Tweed Dale,
Principa Of the Lancasterian School Albany; Caroline
N. Tbayer; Preceptress of Philom Academy; Rev.
Charles &. Somers, New York; L.. S. Lownsbury, prin-
cipal of Village Academy; Charles Spaulding, prInci-
pal of Union Academy, New Brunswick
From His EaeeHency De Win Clinton.
/" l have read with attention a book of Mr.. James
Brown, on the subject of English Grammmar. The
work evinces acuteness ofmihd, and originality Of thot.
The defects of the receioed systems, are clearly and for.
chilly exposed; and the one which he proposes as a sub.
stitute, although not presented as a6nished work, evin.
cs a long and familiar acquaintance with the subject,
and, in practice, is so readily comprehended eve. by
young children, that ! cannot but consider il well wor.
thy of public patronage. have examined children both
singly and in classes with no knowledge whatever of any
otier system, and with but a short course IN this, whose
progress was truly astonishing. The author Of this
work is a man of great personal modesty, and possesses
natire talent for pathological investigations: l hope he
may receive that encouragement which his work so
Justly merits, that the efforts ofhis long application may
be at length amply rewarded.
DE- WITT CLINTON"
THE EAouoing is from the Letter cfMe Rer VI. Ffnddy,
BALTIMORE.
"No one can read the critic SINS OF Mr.. Brown with
out feeling at once ashamed Of his own subsection to
authority, and g%rati6ed with the authors ingenuit. and
CORE ctness." ''}rown is a philosopher: he has found
ed his system OF Grammar upon the basis OF the mind
he has succeeded in redeeming the Grammar of our RAM
guage from every thing arbitrary - "The learner is
treated AS a thinking being;' instead OF, as Linoiey
Murray says, or as the rule says, there will be a fitness
in the thing itself, which Will commend itself TO the
| Judgment and taste ofthe learner. ''The day is at hand
when a complete revolution is 10 be accomplished when
the bonds OF irrational custom and prejudice must be
broken off, and the minds of the rising generations in
the first stages of scientific attainments taught to assert
their native dignity and independence" But what can
patience and genius do in the unob,rusivc walk OF sci.
ence without the aid OF the influential in society Let
the system have a fair trial and investigation: iffound to
be the system Of truth, why not adoptiti
From the letter Of the Ken Charles G. .Somers, CRy of
Mew- York.
Permit me to congratulate you, Sir, as the author of
an original system of English Grammar; one by which
the learner Will enjoy man. advantages over every O.
Their. Among these, I consider it not the least, that
your pupils necessarily habituated to tho ght and re-
Election. 'To the philologist, it must be apleasing re.
Election, that the present age is adorned with men
whose sire myth of judgment, whose largeness of COM
prehension, and whose independence of mind prompt
them to abandon the servile tracks in search Of undis-
covered helps 10 knowledge"
''To many, it will be a sufficient objection, that you
have ventured to differ from the learned L. Murray"
And 1t is but reasonable to suppose that you will meet
with prosecutions from various sources; thus was Cali
leo imprisoned; ant he suffered a long and painful in
generation for ~benefting the world by inventing the
Telescope" feb 10