Peter Bullions (December 1791 – February 20, 1864) was a Scottish-born American

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minister and grammarian. He was the author of several textbooks of English, Latin and Greek grammar as well as commentaries on

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Life

Bullions was born in December 1791 in

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, Scotland. He emigrated to the United States, where he became a Presbyterian minister. Bullions revised ''The Principles of English Grammar'' by William Lennie, another Scottish grammarian, in the 1830s. In the 1840s and 1850s, he wrote his own textbooks on English, Latin and Greek grammar. He also authored commentaries on

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''. Bullions died on February 20, 1864, in Troy, Vermont. Two years later, American grammarian Asahel C. Kendrick revised his ''Principles of Greek Grammar''.

Selected works

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References

External links

Works by Peter Bullions
on the

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