Books and other items printed in Gaelic from 1841 to 1870 > Double grammar, of English and Gaelic, in which the principles of both languages are clearly explained

PREFACE.
Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes,
Tenets with books, and priuciples with times.—POPE.
Lv introducing the following work to the Public, the Author
would briefly observe, that he was, from practical experience
in teaching for several years, led to furnish the Double
Grammar, as an attempt to supply an educational want
which had too long existed in the Highlands of Scotland,—
that of a Grammar from which the natives might learn the
structure of both EngUsh and Gaelic, or either, through the
medium of the Gaelic itself, their vernacular language. Such
a work has been long and eagerly desired by many in the
Highlands.
In teaching the structure of any language, it will be readily
admitted by every person in the least acquainted with the
principles of tuition, that the only rational and successful
method of conveying a proper knowledge of it to the learner,
is through the medium of the language which he already in
some measure understands; and pursuant to this principle, our
country has been abundantly supplied with elementary books,
in which the principles of foreign languages are explicitly un¬
folded in English, for the benefit of such as are capable of
studying them through that important language.
Seeing, then, such ample provision made for facilitating the
attainment of foreign or dead languages, such as Greek and
Latin, &c., which, though not spoken by us, are highly cul-