The point, however, upon which, in the prefaces both of the first edition of the present work and of his English Grammar, the writer has most urgently insisted is the disciplinal character of grammatical studies in general, combined with the fact, that the grammatical study of one's own language is almost exclusively disciplinal.
"The English Language"
Robert Gordon Latham
The claim of English grammar to form part and parcel of an English education stands or falls with the value of the philological and historical knowledge to which grammatical studies may serve as an introduction, and with the value of scientific grammar as a disciplinal study.
"The English Language"
Robert Gordon Latham
There is still the question as to the relative disciplinal merits of the different non-vernacular languages of the world.
"The English Language"
Robert Gordon Latham