MR. BANKS continues to give Lessons in Ladies'

Schools, and Private Families, agreeably to the method decsribed in the Introductory Remarks on Education prefixed to this Work.

Melina Place, St. John's Wood,

June 16, 1829.

THE

ENGLISH MASTER;

OR,

STUDENT'S GUIDE

TO

REASONING AND COMPOSITION:

EXHIBITING

AN ANALYTICAL VIEW

OF THE

ENGLISH LANGUAGE, OF THE HUMAN MIND, AND
OF THE PRINCIPLES OF FINE WRITING.

BY WILLIAM BANKS,

PRIVATE TEACHER OF COMPOSITION, INTELLECTUAL
PHILOSOPHY, &c.

Our language ought to be considered not only with a view to its
grammatical propriety, but as a subject of taste.

Call now to mind what high capacious powers
Lie folded up in man.

KETT.

AKENSIDE.

The science of criticism may be considered as a middle link, connecting
the different parts of education into a regular chain.

KAMES.

SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

SMITH, ELDER AND CO. 65, CORNHILL.

MUSEUM

RITANNICH

LONDON:

Printed by Littlewood and Co. Old Bailey.