Back to Joseph Priestley, whose rudiments of English grammar insists that the custom of speaking is the original and only just standard of any language.
Originally, the first rudiments, both of the Greek and Latin languages, were taught in universities; and in some universities they still continue to be so.
One who does grasp the rudiments of grammar finds a comforting simplicity at its heart, where there need be only nouns, the words that name, and verbs, the words that act.
He advised my attending certain places in London, for the acquisition of such mere rudiments as I wanted, and my investing him with the functions of explainer and director of all my studies.
Even though much is not talked about concerning financial security as a college student or a job seeker, it is quite helpful to grasp on the rudiments for becoming rich by the
Thorne touched the hilt of his longsword. " Aye. I have squandered a third of my life trying to teach the rudiments of swordplay to churls, muttonheads, and knaves. Small good that will do me in those woods" .
Born on the frontier of Virginia, reared in a log cabin, granted only the barest rudiments of education, inured to hardship and rough life, he rose by masterly efforts to the highest judicial honor America can bestow.
In tracing the homologies of any part in different members of the same class, nothing is more common, or, in order fully to understand the relations of the parts, more useful than the discovery of rudiments.
Human beings show their superiority to the brutes by their capacity for boredom, though I have sometimes thought, in examining the apes at the Zoo, that they, perhaps, have the rudiments of this tiresome emotion .