THE

PRINCIPLES

OF

GRAMMAR:

BEING

A COMPENDIOUS TREATISE ON THE LANGUAGES,

ENGLISH, LATIN, GREEK, GERMAN,
SPANISH, AND FRENCH.

FOUNDED ON THE

IMMUTABLE PRINCIPLE OF THE RELATION WHICH ONE
WORD SUSTAINS TO ANOTHER.

He brought in a new way of arguing by induction, and that grounded
on observation and experience.-BAKER.

BY SOLOMON BARRETT, JR.,

PHILOLOGIST.

REVISED EDITION.

CAMBRIDGE:

METCALF AND COMPANY,

PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.

1854.

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
AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF MORALS,

THAN ANY OTHER INSTITUTION,
OF HUMAN ORIGIN,

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.

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 ability 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.