Back to Joseph Priestley, whose rudiments of English grammar insists that the custom of speaking is the original and only just standard of any language.
Originally, the first rudiments, both of the Greek and Latin languages, were taught in universities; and in some universities they still continue to be so.
One who does grasp the rudiments of grammar finds a comforting simplicity at its heart, where there need be only nouns, the words that name, and verbs, the words that act.
Even though much is not talked about concerning financial security as a college student or a job seeker, it is quite helpful to grasp on the rudiments for becoming rich by the
He advised my attending certain places in London, for the acquisition of such mere rudiments as I wanted, and my investing him with the functions of explainer and director of all my studies.
The very emphasis on reading readiness and on the methods employed to teach children the rudiments of reading has meant that the other, the higher, levels of reading have tended to be slighted.
In tracing the homologies of any part in different members of the same class, nothing is more common, or, in order fully to understand the relations of the parts, more useful than the discovery of rudiments.