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A

GRAMMAR

OF THE

HEBREW LANGUAGE,

COMPRISED IN A

SERIES OF LECTURES;

COMPILED FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES,

AND

AUGMENTED WITH MUCH ORIGINAL MATTER,

DRAWN PRINCIPALLY

From Oriental Sources:

DESIGNED

FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS IN THE UNIVERSITIES.

DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION,

TO THE

RIGHT REV. THE LORD BISHOP OF LINCOLN,

REGIUS PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

BY THE REV. S. LEE, A. M.

D.D. OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HALLE, HONORARY MEMBER OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF PARIS,
HONORARY ASSOCIATE AND F. R. S. L. AND M. R. A. S. &c.

AND PROFESSOR OF ARABIC IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR JAMES DUNCAN, 37, PATERNOSTER ROW;
T. STEVENSON, CAMBRIDGE; J. PARKER, OXFORD; BELL & BRADFUTE,
EDINBURGH; AND M. OGLE, GLASGOW.

Macintosh, Printer,

20, Great New Street, London.

TO THE

RIGHT REV. JOHN, LORD BISHOP OF LINCOLN,

REGIUS PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY

IN THE

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE,

THIS ENDEAVOUR

TO INVESTIGATE THE PRINCIPLES

OF THE

HEBREW LANGUAGE,

IS MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,

BY HIS LORDSHIP'S

MOST OBEDIENT, OBLIGED,

HUMBLE SERVANT,

THE AUTHOR.

PREFACE.

IT will very naturally be expected, that, upon presenting another Grammar of the Hebrew Language to the Public, some reasons should be assigned for so doing; especially when so many have already made their appearance. This expectation I shall now endeavour to satisfy by stating, in what respects this Work differs from others:- which is perhaps the best reason that can be offered for its publication.

In the first place, then, as the Hebrew Language is seldom taught in schools, and is, perhaps, still less frequently studied to any extent till the Learner is arrived at the age of maturity, it has occurred to me, that those Grammars which exhibit nothing more than a synthetical detail of the rules common to this language, however well executed, are not calculated either to interest or inform that class of readers for which they are chiefly designed. It has been my object, therefore, to join the analytical with the synthetical method of treating this question: endeavouring at once to lay down the rules necessary to be taught, and to ascertain the principles upon which they are founded. How far I have succeeded, it will be for others to judge. That I have been right in the principle, I think all must allow who consider, how much more readily rules are comprehended, and how much

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