Murray's English Reader: Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers (Classic Reprint)
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English Exercises, Adapted to the Grammar Lately Published by L. Murray; ... Designed for the Benefit of Private Learners, as Well as for the Use of ... Lindley Murray. the Fourth Edition, Corrected
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London: printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees; Darton and Harvey; and Wilson, Spence, and Mawman, York, 1799. 11, 1,192, 4p.; 12°
An Abridgement of Murray's English Grammar and Exercises, With Improvements Designed as a Text
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An Abridgement of Murray's English Grammar and Exercises, With Improvements Designed as a Text by Lindley Murray.
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Memoirs Of The Life And Writings Of Lindley Murray: In A Series Of Letters, Written By Himself. With A Preface, And A Continuation Of The Memoirs
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Lindley Murray was an American writer and grammarian.
Background
Lindley Murray was born on June 7, 1745, at Harper Tavern, Pennsylvania, United States, the eldest, and the last to survive, of the twelve children of Robert Murray and Mary Lindley. His father, who had emigrated from Ireland in 1732, was at the time of his son's birth a miller. Later he embarked in the West Indies trade, tried his luck for a few years in North Carolina, and in 1753 settled as a merchant in New York, where he rose to affluence. Brought up in the Westminster Confession, he joined the Quakers but lived with a sumptuousness that scandalized poorer members of the sect.
Education
His father sternly denied Lindley's desire for a literary education until finally the boy ran away from home and enrolled in a school at Burlington, New Jersey. A compromise was then effected and Lindley studied law in the office of Benjamin Kissam, with John Jay for a fellow pupil. Four years later Murray was called to the bar.
Career
Murray acquired a lucrative practice among the Quakers in the province of New York. With the outbreak of the Revolution he retired to Islip, Long Island, on Great South Bay, hunted and fished, and experimented with the making of salt, but in 1779 he returned to New York and, with capital supplied by his father, set up as a merchant. Having amassed a comfortable fortune, he retired in 1783 to his estate, "Bellevue, " the site of which is now occupied by Bellevue Hospital.
In the hope of restoring his failing health he made a leisurely tour through New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania and in 1784 went to England, which he had already visited in 1770 - 1771. He bought a small estate at Holgate, just outside York, and made his home there until his death forty-two years later. In these years of retirement he cultivated a garden which was said to rival those at Kew, and gave considerable time to writing. He moved about as little as possible, seldom ventured further than the Friends' Meeting House in York, and for many years before his death never left the house.
He produced a number of schoolbooks, including an English Grammar (1795); English Exercises (1797); A Key to the Exercises (1797) and others. These books were widely circulated in England and the United States; for a time the grammars virtually monopolized the field. According to R. L. Lyman, "A very conservative estimate of the total number of Murray's grammars, including his own and his followers' before 1850, is 200 editions, totaling between 1, 500, 000 and 2, 000, 000 copies. " They were eclectic in principle and well arranged for pedagogical purposes; but rival grammarians, often with much heat, pointed to numerous shortcomings, and Murray was frequently charged with forgetting his own rules; for half a century, nevertheless, he was to grammar what Hoyle was to whist. Goold Brown and Samuel Kirkham ultimately displaced him. Of Murray's religious tracts the most popular was The Power of Religion on the Mind in Retirement, Sickness, and Death (1787), the first edition of which was printed privately for presentation to his friends.
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Religion
For eleven years Murray was a recorded minister of the Society of Friends.
Views
Quotations:
"In paganism light is mixed with darkness, and religion and truth are blended with superstition and error. "
"Punctuation is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, for the purpose of marking the different pauses which the sense, and an accurate pronunciation require. "
Connections
On June 22, 1767, Lindley Murray married Hannah Dobson, who died September 25, 1834. They had no children.