A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges

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D. Appleton, 1866 - 355 páginas
 

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Página iv - ... created for itself. 6. Topics which require extended illustration are first presented in their completeness in general outline, before the separate points are discussed in detail. Thus a single page often foreshadows all the leading features of an extended discussion, imparting a completeness and vividness to the impression of the learner, impossible under any other treatment.
Página 334 - By brevity and conciseness in the choice of phraseology and compactness in the arrangement of forms and topics, the author has endeavored to compress within the limits of a convenient manual an amount of carefullyselected grammatical facts, which would otherwise fill a much larger volume. 4. He has, moreover, endeavored to present the whole subject in the light of modern scholarship. Without encumbering...
Página iii - Latin language ; to exhibit not only grammatical forms and constructions, but also those vital principles which underlie, control, and explain them. 2. Designed at once as a text-book for the class-room, and a book of reference in study, it aims to introduce the beginner easily and pleasantly to the first principles of the language, and yet to make adequate provision for the wants of the more advanced student.
Página 332 - ... the pupil master of every individual subject before he proceeds to a new one, and of each subject by itself before it is combined with others; so that he is brought gradually and surely to understand the most difficult combinations of the language. An important feature of this book is, that it carries along the Syntax...
Página 332 - Book, remodelled and rewritten by Mr. Harkness, in my classes during the past year, and find it to be a work not so much re modelled and rewritten as one entirely new, both in its plan and in its adaptation to the wants of the beginner in Latin.
Página 9 - The Latin, like the English, has three persons and two numbers. The first person denotes the speaker ; the second, the person spoken to ; the third, the person spoken of. The singular number denotes one, the plural more than one.
Página 332 - Principal of Worcester High School. "I have examined the work with care, and am happy to say that I find it superior to any similar work with which I am acquainted. I shall recommend it to my next class.
Página 331 - ... to the old system. The reason of this is, that every thing has a practical bearing, and a principle is no sooner learned than it is applied. The pupil is at once set to work on exercises. The Prose Composition forms an excellent sequel to the above work, or may be used with any other course.
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Página 331 - In the skill with which he sets forth the idiomatic peculiarities, as well as in the directness and symplicity with which he states the facts of the ancient languages, Mr. Arnold has no superior. I know of no books so admirably adapted to awaken an interest in the study of the language, or so well fitted to lay the foundation of a correct scholarship and refined taste.

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