text: " Again he says:-- "I am sorry that the resolution I have formed of frankly speaking my mind throughout this work obliges me to express myself as I do here and elsewhere with such an apparent want of modesty; but were I to adopt with regard to this discovery and the knowledge we have hitherto had of the science of grammar what is understood by a more becoming and humble tone I should by doing so lose in truth what I might gain by affected modesty since I should not only be speaking falsely but be leading the reader into error by concealing from him my real opinion which I should by no means do