. The comic English grammar; a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . ot!Mather way! or Woa? not to mentionthe atrocious Kim aup ! of the ignorant anddegraded costermonger. We once actually hearda fellow threaten to pitch into his dog! mean-ing, we believe, to beat the animal. It is notorious that the above and greater enor-mities are perpetrated in spite of the number ofGrammars already before the world. This factsufficiently excuses the present addition to thestock; and as serious English Grammars havehitherto failed to effect the desired reformation, weare induced to attempt
. The comic English grammar; a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . ot!Mather way! or Woa? not to mentionthe atrocious Kim aup ! of the ignorant anddegraded costermonger. We once actually hearda fellow threaten to pitch into his dog! mean-ing, we believe, to beat the animal. It is notorious that the above and greater enor-mities are perpetrated in spite of the number ofGrammars already before the world. This factsufficiently excuses the present addition to thestock; and as serious English Grammars havehitherto failed to effect the desired reformation, weare induced to attempt it by means of a Comic one. With regard to the moral tendency of ourlabours, we may here be permitted to remark,that they will tend, if successful, to the suppres-sion of evil speaking. We shall only add, that as the Spartans usedto exhibit a tipsy slave to their children with aview to disgust them with drunkenness, so we,by giving a few examples here and there, of in- PREFACE. correct phraseology, shall expose, in their nakeddeformity, the vices of speech to the VW LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. FRONTISPIECE. Page MINERVA TEACHING . . .X JOHN BULL .... 12 THE prodigy . . .14 jane you know who ... 18 mutes and liquids . . .23 awkward lout . . 24 ha ! ha ! ha ! ho i ho ! ho ! he ! he ! he ! . 27 0!, WHAT, A, lark! HERE, WE, ARE ! . 28 ALDIBORONTIPHOSCOPHORMIO AND CHRONONHOTONTHOLOGOS 34 SINGLE BLESSEDNESS ... 40 APPLE SAUCE . . .45 MATILDA . . .48 A SOCIALIST . . . .50 shant I SHINE TO NIGHT, DEAR? . 51 JULIA . . .57 A VERY BAD CASE . . .59 A SELECT VESTRY . . fi{) SELF-ESTEEM .... 78 FACT, MADAM ! GRACIOUS, MAJOR ! . .82 YEARS OF DISCRETION ... 81) l SHALL GIVE YOU A DRUBBING! . 97 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. a comical conjunction as well as can be expected hows your inspectouI . what a duck of a man! the flirt the captain . . the duke of wellington oh! you GOOD-FOR-NOTHING MAN ! the young gentleman airtues reward not to MINCE MATTERS, MISS, I LOVE YOuthe FRENCH MARQUIS t
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