Excerpt from A Handbook of Modern Arabic: Consisting of a Practical Grammar, With Numerous Examples, Dialogues, and Newspaper Extracts, In an European TypeI distributed this handbill in many quarters, and re ceived several letters. One learned gentleman brie¿y replied that he could not see any use in my proposed change, - entirely ignoring the eleven uses which I had enumerated. Similar rebuffs came from other quarters. I suppose, therefore, I must count on nothing but Opposition from the learned, who seem to me dis posed much to underrate the di¿iculties which they have surmounted, or indisposed to smooth the way of learners. When the field of learning is infinite, it is with me a crime to increase difficulty. I do not write for the learned, but to aid the unlearned: hence I appeal to the latter alone - to those who have good sense, but no acquaintance with this particular language.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.