IN HISTORICAL ENGLISH GRAMMAR CONTAINING Accidence and Word-Formation. BY THE REV. RICHARD MORRIS, LL.D., HONORARY M.A. OXFORD, VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE Author of "Historical Outlines of English Accidence," NEW EDITION. London: MACMILLAN AND CO. 1882. [The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved.] PREFACE. THE present treatise has been drawn up at the urgent request of numerous teachers, who asked for an easier and more elementary work than my "Historical Outlines of English Accidence," published some two years ago. I have endeavoured to the best of my ability to produce a short historical grammar that might be advantageously used as an introduction to my larger book. I have not, however, made a new book by cutting down and compressing the old one. These Elementary Lessons" constitute an entirely indepen |