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Excerpts from Grammars No. 1: Charles Peter Mason 1879

Author Charles Peter Mason explains in a single sentence how he is “pushing condensation of expression and economy of space to their utmost limits” in the preface to his fourth edition of A Shorter English Grammar with Copious and Carefully Graduated Exercises (Toronto & Winnipeg: Gage and Company, c. 1879). This Shorter Grammar has been published in…

January 1, 2014 in 19th Century, English, Excerpts.

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