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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Grammatical Institutes, or, An Easy Introduction to Dr. Lowth's English Grammar''}}
===by John Ash===
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}}[[wikipedia:Robert Lowth|Robert Lowth]] (1710 &ndash; 1787), was an Anglican Bishop, Hebrew scholar, and Oxford professor. His ''Short Introduction to English Grammar'' (1762) was one of the most influential English textbooks of its time, remaining in use into the 20th-century. Among other precepts, Lowth was responsible for the idea that ending a sentence on a preposition is grammatically incorrect.

[[wikipedia:John Ash (divine)|John Ash]] (c. 1724 &ndash; 1779) was an English minister and lexicographer who published an English dictionary, as well as this "Easy Introduction" to Lowth's ''Grammar,'' first published in 1763.<ref>Robin C. Alston, ''A Bibliography of the English Language from the Invention
of Printing to the Year 1800,'' vol. 1, ''English Grammars Written in English'' (Leeds, E. J. Arnold & Son, 1965), 33.</ref> Ash added lessons in "bad" and "good" English, as well as a list of books "proper for young gentlemen and ladies" to "to shorten the path to knowledge."

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==

Thomas Jefferson's [[Jefferson Inventory|inventory of books inherited from Wythe]] lists "Ash's Introduction to Lowthe's grammar. 12mo." as a book kept for Jefferson's collection.

[[Henry Clay]] mentions Lowth's ''Grammar'' as one of the books Wythe recommended while Clay was working in the High Court of Chancery as a young man.<ref>Epes Sargent, [[Life and Public Services of Henry Clay|''The Life and Public Services of Henry Clay, Down to 1848'']], ed. Horace Greeley (Auburn, NY: Derby & Miller, 1852), 14.</ref>

==See also==
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*[[Life and Public Services of Henry Clay]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
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==External links==
*Read this book at the [https://archive.org/details/grammaticalinsti00ashj Internet Archive.]

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