See also:LINDLEY See also:- MURRAY
- MURRAY (or MORAY), EARLS OF
- MURRAY (or MORAY), JAMES STUART, EARL OF (c. 1531-1570)
- MURRAY (or MORAY), SIR ROBERT (c. 1600-1673)
- MURRAY, ALEXANDER STUART (1841-1904)
- MURRAY, DAVID (1849– )
- MURRAY, EUSTACE CLARE GRENVILLE (1824–1881)
- MURRAY, JAMES (c. 1719-1794)
- MURRAY, JOHN
- MURRAY, JOHN (1778–1820)
- LINDLEY MURRAY (1745–1826)
- MURRAY, LORD GEORGE (1694–1760)
- MURRAY, SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS HENRY (1837– )
- MURRAY, SIR JOHN (1841– )
MURRAY (1745–1826)
, Anglo-See also:American grammarian, was See also:born at Swatara, See also:Pennsylvania, on the 22nd of See also:April 1745
.
His See also:father, a Quaker, was a leading New See also:York See also:merchant
.
At the See also:age of fourteen he was placed in his father's See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, but he ran away to a school in See also:Burlington, New See also:Jersey
.
He was brought back to New York, but his arguments against a commercial career prevailed, and he was allowed to study See also:law
.
On being called to the See also:bar he practised successfully in New York
.
In 1783 he was able to retire, and in 1784 he See also:left See also:America for See also:England
.
Settling at Holgate, near York, he devoted the See also:rest of his See also:life to See also:literary pursuits
.
His first See also:book was See also:Power of See also:Religion on the Mind (1787)
.
In 1795 he issued his See also:Grammar of the See also:English See also:Language
.
This was followed, among other analogous See also:works, by English Exercises, and the English Reader
.
These books passed through several See also:editions, and the Grammar was the See also:standard textbook for fifty years throughout England and America
.
See also:Lindley See also:- MURRAY
- MURRAY (or MORAY), EARLS OF
- MURRAY (or MORAY), JAMES STUART, EARL OF (c. 1531-1570)
- MURRAY (or MORAY), SIR ROBERT (c. 1600-1673)
- MURRAY, ALEXANDER STUART (1841-1904)
- MURRAY, DAVID (1849– )
- MURRAY, EUSTACE CLARE GRENVILLE (1824–1881)
- MURRAY, JAMES (c. 1719-1794)
- MURRAY, JOHN
- MURRAY, JOHN (1778–1820)
- MURRAY, LINDLEY (1745–1826)
- MURRAY, LORD GEORGE (1694–1760)
- MURRAY, SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS HENRY (1837– )
- MURRAY, SIR JOHN (1841– )
Murray died on the 16th of See also:January 1826
.
See the Memoir of the Life and Writings of Lindley Murray (partly autobiographical), by See also:Elizabeth See also:Frank (1826) ; Life of Murray, by W
.
H
.
Egle (New York, 1885)
.
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