A theoretical and practical Italian grammar - National Library of ...

y\ PREFACE.
stantly to refer to and to reconsider all the rules they have already
studied throughout the Gramumr.
As our design in preparing this book was to offer to the^ English
student a clear and practical method of acquiring the Italian language,
and not a treatise on the elements and principles of Grammar as a
study, we have omitted those grammatical definitions and explanations
which every educated English person must already know ; as it is to
be supposed that, before attempting to acquire a foreign language, one
must have studied one's own.
We ofifer our work to our Pupils ;
and should we have succeeded in
rendering the study of the most classical and beautiful of languages
pleasing to them, because clear and simple, we shall esteem ourselves
rewarded for the labour we have bestowed on our Italian Grammar.