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cious directions for construing The author shall , however , speak ? for himself on this portion of his work * The second part of the •* Initia l * atina " proposes to teach words and modes of construction , and is intended to be put into the hands of the youthful pupil as soon as he has perfectly learned the declinable parts of speech * It consists of short and easy phrases and sentences , uniform in style , and so arranged as to illustrate and render fafniliar those rules of syntax
which seem best suited to the capacity , and mo&t useful for the instruction of a beginner . Plain directions for tendering the examples into English are combined with each rule j and the illustrations are all taken from one author , because reason and experience show that the readiest method of learning the language is to read one author tiU his style is thoroughly understood . Thus the efforts of the youthful scholar are made subservient to a definite object , and hid earliest lessons have a direct tendency to render him familiar with the language of the prince of Roman poesy .
* The English version is intended to be used for the purpose 6 f rendering the sentences back into Latin ; and in this Way it may supply the place of a book of exercises ; for the teaeiier may occasionally vary the words in case , tense * and signification . This oral re-translation is found to be a most efficient instrument in teaching the language . ' The work is professedly written for the use of the grammar-school
accusative , arid when the accusative is not expressed , immediately after the verb / But why does the author follow in the beaten track , and say * Est for hubeo governs a dative / Ac ? Why did he not rather explain the difference of construction between the two languages ? Est for habeo is a grammatical barbarism * The Romans no more thought of vicarious standing " , when they said est tnihi , than the apostle Paul of vicarious suffering :, when he said , * for even Christ , our passover , is sacrificed for us /
Blemishes . allowed , we most cordially recommend the ' Initia Latina , ' art fully answering its title , and a valuable improvement upon former grammars in Usum puerorutn * It contains also not a few valuable hints , in usum magistrorum .
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of which the author is master ; and it cannot therefore be demanded that it should be an entirely fit manual for the laborious few who resolve , amid all difficulties , to make themselves acquainted with Latin , but it might with little alteration be rendered such . Among other things we would suggest explanations of some grammatical terms , such as enclitical , transitive , apposition , &e . As an example of a clearly denned rule we may quote the following : * Besides the accusative verbs , signifying advantage or disadvantage * verbs of giving refusing , and taking * away , commanding * and announcing , promising and paying , trusting-, complying with , resisting , and threatening , govern a dative of the object to which the action is directed , which dative may be generally taken immediately after the
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A New System of Geography and Astronomy , # c < By W . and G . Frost , F . H . A . 8 ., &c . 12 mo ., with plates . Simpkin , The authors chiefly rely ( and we think not without reason ) on tfie astronomical part of their treatise ; lese discursive than the former part aad more correct in its numerical data * it 1 * not liable to 00
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358 Critical JVotiees . ~ Ne&System */ Geography , fyc .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1832, page 358, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1812/page/70/
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