A grammar, with a selection of dialogues ... in modern Arabic [by R.B.M. Binning] ed. by F. Hayes

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Pàgina vi - And I would fain have any one name to me that tongue, that any one can learn or speak as he should do, by the rules of grammar. Languages were made not by rules or art, but by accident, and the common use of the people. And he that will speak them well, has no other rule but that; nor anything to trust to but his memory, and the habit of speaking after the fashion learned from those that are allowed to speak properly, which, in other words, is only to speak by rote.
Pàgina vii - Men learn languages for the ordinary intercourse of society and communication of thoughts in common life, without any farther design in their use of them: and for this purpose, the original way of learning a language by conversation, not only serves well enough, but is to be preferred as the most expedite, proper, and natural.
Pàgina vi - For languages being to be learned by rote, custom, and memory, are then spoken in greatest perfection, when all rules of grammar are utterly forgotten.
Pàgina vi - I grant the grammar of a language is sometimes very carefully to be studied : but it is only to be studied by a grown man, when he applies himself to the understanding of any language critically, which is seldom the business of any but professed scholars.
Pàgina 18 - Names and attributes of females are feminine, and also most names of countries, towns and places ; and the names of the double members of the body; as, yed 'hand,* rijl ' foot,' 'ein

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