Grammar was the prize to be won because it provided the possessor with power. “The long-imprisoned, the heavily-fined, the banished William Prynne,” says Cobbett, “returning to liberty, borne by the people from Southampton to London, over a road strewed with flowers” (pp. 4-5), could never have performed any of his acts against tyranny and injustice without a knowledge of grammar. Such knowledge was an indispensable prerequisite for anyone struggling against tyranny and misgovernment. It was also a discipline to be used to diminish the authority of men of letters like Dr Johnson, the lexicographer, Dr Isaac Watts, the logician, and Fellows of English Colleges, “who live by the sweat of other people’s brows”. Publisher : Oxford University Press Publication date : 1984 Language : English Paperback : 212 pages ISBN-10 : 0192814745 ISBN-13 : 9780192814746 Link download https://nitro.download/view/002BCFB37682BCAhttps://nitroflare.com/folder/949760/L00VuZ2xpc2g=
