Excerpt from A Grammar Illustrating the Principles and Practice of Trade and Commerce: For the Use of Young Persons Intended for Business These subjects, united in a course of education, to a critical knowledge of our own language, and of the works of its best authors, with the acquirement of the living languages of France, Italy, Spain, or Ger many, a familiar acquaintance with arith metic and the principles of book-keeping, and perhaps also some practice in the art of drawing, are considered as more than a counterpoise for, seven years drudgery, passed in learning Latin and Greek. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.