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" And I would fain have any one name to me that tongue, that any one can learn or speak as he should do, by the rules of grammar. Languages were made not by rules or art, but by accident, and the common use of the people. And he that will speak them well,... "
Nature Displayed in Her Mode of Teaching Language to Man, Or, A New and ... - Page xxxii
by Nicolas Gouin Dufief - 1804
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Some Thoughts Concerning Education

John Locke - Education - 1988 - 328 pages
...Grammar. Languages were made not by Rules or Art, but by Accident, and the common Use of the People. And he that will speak them well, has no other Rule...thing to trust to, but his Memory, and the Habit of speaking after the Fashion learned from those, 30 that are allowed to speak properly, which in other...
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