Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-08-28
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For the Pomeroy Week

For the Pomeroy Weekly Telegraph.
Mr.. Editor:-If any of your readers
can produce or find longer sentence
in the English language than the fol-
lowing, which is taken from the preface
to seTreatise on the English Language, ~
by S. Kerl, I would be pleased to see it
published in the Telegraph. Here is
the sentence:
'sTo condense into one volume of con-
venient size and moderate price COM
prehensive, minute, accurate, practical,
interesting, well-methodised, and we'll
illustrated system of the principles which
determine the proper use of the English
language; to furnish authors, editors,
printers, teachers, lawyers, physicians,
and clergymen, or any other persons that
take some pride in keeping out of law
and slovenly habits in the use ofspeeches,
with convenient manual sufficient with
good dictionary to supply them with
whatever may be ordinarily needed to
test the propriety of any phrase, SEN
tence or paragraph that can be formed
in our language; to compress into one
treatise what may have all the advan-
tages of series of books without their
disadvantages, and be essentially equiv
alent to multitude of books now used
in our schools, under the various names
of Primary Grammar, Analytical Gram
mar, Grammar of Grammars, English
Language, Analysis, Teacher, Murray's
Exercises, Scholars Companion, Ety.
mology, Pronunciation, Punctuation,
Rhetoric, Elements of Logic, Aids to
Composition; &C., &C.; to make it, in
practical value, for the present age what
Murray's large Grammar was for its age,
and adopt it to all kinds of learners by
making it simple, progressive, practical,
and philosophical; to embody in it what
ever seems worthy of preservation in all
the best similar treatise one century
back, and all the sound Improvements of
modern times together with the various
criticisms scattered over our literature,
and made by authors upon authors, by
comedions in their ridicule in current
faults in speech, and by critics and re-
viewers upon the prevailing literature;
to encircle the entire subject by a per-
sonal survey of the best portions Of our
literature, by new illustrations and ex-
amples, by constant comparison of the
idioms and analogies of our language
with those of the languages which have
furnished or Influenced it, by what teach
ers, and logicians, and mental philoso-
pliers have said and written on the art of
communicating knowledge, and by OBJ
servations and meditations of my own;
to avoid whatever seems Objectionable
in kindred treaties, ignore what seems
capable of improvement, bring down to
their proper sphere those parts which
have been heretofore overrated, and
bring out fairly and fully, those parts,
which, from the great difficulty of mas
tering them-such as Figures, Verifca-
ton, Punctuation, Capital Letters
have been deficient; to interweaye with
the materials throughout the easiest and
best modes of learning and teaching, and
to impart to the whole a sort of Shaks,
pearean comprehensiveness, and fitness
for the world, and make it what intelli
gent teachers have often described as a
desideratum, are the principal aims which
have swayed me in the writing Of this
volume" J.H.L.
kACfsE, 1850.