nd Interjection_."--P. 29. But the author afterwards treats
of the _Adjective_, between the _Article_ and the _Pronoun_, just as if he
had forgotten to name it, and could not count nine with accuracy! In
Perley's Grammar, the parts of speech are a different eight: namely,
"_Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs, Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions,
Interjections_, and _Particles_!"--P. 8. S. W. Clark has Priestley's
classes, but calls Interjections "Exclamations."

[72] Felton, who is confessedly a modifier of Murray, claims as a merit,
"_the rejection of several useless parts of speech_" yet acknowledges
"_nine_," and treats of _ten_; "viz., _Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Participles,
Prepositions, Adjectives_, [Articles,] _Adverbs, Conjunctions,
Exclamations_."--_O. C. Felton's Gram._ p. 5, and p. 9.

[73] Quintilian is at fault here; for, in some of his writings, if not
generally, Aristotle recognized _four_ parts of speech; namely, verbs,
nouns, conjunctions, and articles. See _Aristot. de Poetica_, Cap. xx.

[74] "As there are ten different characters or figures in arithmetic to
represent all possible quantities, there are also ten kinds of words or
parts of speech to represent all possible sentences: viz.: article, noun,
adjective, pronoun, verb, participle, adverb, preposition, conjunction,
interjection."--_Chauvier's Punctuation_, p. 104.

[75] _The Friend_, 1829, Vol. ii, p. 117.

[76] _The Friend_, Vol. ii, p. 105.

[77] See the Preface to my Compendious English Grammar in the American
editions of _the Treasury of Knowledge_, Vol. i, p. 8.

[78] Some say that Brightland himself was the writer of this grammar; but
to suppose him the sole author, hardly comports with its dedication to the
Queen, by her "most Obedient and Dutiful _Subjects_, the _Authors_;" or
with the manner in which these are spoken of, in the following lines, by
the laureate:

"Then say what Thanks, what Praises must attend
_The Gen'rous Wits_, who thus could condescend!
Skill, that to Art's sublimest Orb can reach,
Employ'd its humble Elements to Teach!
Yet worthily Esteem'd, because we know
To raise _Their_ Country's Fame _they_ stoop'd so low."--TATE.

[79] Dr. Campbell, in his Philosophy of Rhetoric, page 158th, makes a
difficulty respecting the meaning of this passage: cites it as an instance
of the misapplication of the term _grammar_; and supposes the writer's
notion of the thing to have been, "of grammar in the abstract,