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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: one already Acquainted with the Latin Tongue. For as the French Language has no Declenfion rof Nouns, it is a Stranger to that vaft Variety of Syntax in the Latin; op? cpfipned by the NounS there haying Cafes, to exprefs the different Re lajtious of Things to one another in Difcourfe; which Relations, in tbf French Language, as well as Qrs, afe by Prgppfitipas. Grarnmars have ufually at of Dialogues in th Ljpguagg, with .Tfa$gsioj).: as the of grcegd. h, with the hlp .of bi JBible. I]e /jiay 4 well to go every, twjce than if he was to content himfelf with a Single reading. I recommend the ufe of the French Bible to a Learner, becaufe he will there find a much nearer agreement with the Manner of Expreffion in the Englifh, than he will betwixt any other French Books and their Tranflations: Wherein ufu- ally a good deal of Liberty is taken, of receding from the Words of the Original French. Aclofe application in this Way for three or four Months together, will bring a Young Man to read fuch Authors, as he will have occafion to Look into pretty readily, and without any great occafion for a Dictionary. XL I mall conclude this Chapter with a fliort Lefture upon a Fault, which does not indeed Properly fall under the Title of it, as being noc committed by the Students them- felves, but by fuch as have the diipo- fal of them when Young; yet, however as it has a fatal Influence upon ftudy, and I can hardly find a more proper Place for it, I mall take the N LibertyLiberty to infert what I have to fay upon it here. The fault I mean, is that of fending Boys too Young, or not fufficiently qualified for it, to the Univerfity: A thing of very dangerous Conlequence, not' only to their ftudies, but Morals too. The Vulgar Method of teaching, followed in our ..Schools, ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217166782 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217166784 |
| Weight | 0.44 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.30 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 128 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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