Philosophic Grammar of the English Language.

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Creator

William S. Cardell

Title

Philosophic Grammar of the English Language.

Coverage

Philadelphia

Publisher

Uriah Hunt

Date

1827

Description

Having lost his father at sea before age one, Cardell (1780–‍1828) became a novelist specializing in sea stories for boys. In 1820, he founded the American Academy of Language and Belles Lettres, with John Quincy Adams as president and Justice Joseph Story as vice-president. Cardell was secretary. It collapsed after withering criticism in the North American Review. As for grammar, the “false principles” of his predecessors, in Cardell’s view, were “not dissimilar to those of Ptolemian astronomy.”