Creator
Robert Ross
Title
The American Grammar.
Coverage
Hartford
Publisher
Nathaniel Patten
Date
1782
Subject
7th ed.
Description
Irish by birth, Ross (1726–1799) was brought to America at age 3, graduated from Princeton, and became a Congregational minister. This “7th edition” is actually his first to add English to the Latin. Ross’s prose rambles, as on page 3: “How wretched and despicable is the man, who, when the years come wherein there is so little of the common pleasures of life to be enjoyed, can employ himself in nothing but in bitter complaints, or take to his bottle, for relief from his growing infirmities.”