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,' London: MACMILLAN AND CO. AND NEW YORK. 1888. The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved. RICHARD CLAY AND SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND BUNGAY. First Edition 1874; 1875, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1884, 1886, 1888. PREFACE. THE present treatise has been drawn up at the urgent request of numerous teachers, who asked for than my an easier and more elementary work "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 |