Exercises in Latin prose composition, with intr., notes |
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... object . They are in- tended to carry the student rapidly over the field of Syntax , with examples of every important construction , both in Simple and Compound sentences , and also to serve as a gradual introduction to the writing of ...
... object . They are in- tended to carry the student rapidly over the field of Syntax , with examples of every important construction , both in Simple and Compound sentences , and also to serve as a gradual introduction to the writing of ...
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... object in compiling it has been that there may be at least one Latin Prose book in existence which has no Key . My experience as a teacher is that nothing is so injurious to sound scholar- ship , nothing so much baffles the efforts of ...
... object in compiling it has been that there may be at least one Latin Prose book in existence which has no Key . My experience as a teacher is that nothing is so injurious to sound scholar- ship , nothing so much baffles the efforts of ...
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... object entirely to the system now so popular amongst schoolmasters of making everything so easy to a learner that it is impossible for him to go wrong . If a student has a Vocabulary which gives him the exact word or PREFACE TO THE ...
... object entirely to the system now so popular amongst schoolmasters of making everything so easy to a learner that it is impossible for him to go wrong . If a student has a Vocabulary which gives him the exact word or PREFACE TO THE ...
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... some exercise books . My object is not to make the learner acquainted with a large number of words a work which I hold he must do for himself , - but to fix his attention upon the constructions . The PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION . xiii.
... some exercise books . My object is not to make the learner acquainted with a large number of words a work which I hold he must do for himself , - but to fix his attention upon the constructions . The PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION . xiii.
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... object , the student must bear in mind that in the translation of every sentence into Latin three distinct points have to be kept in view : - I. Every construction must be correct . II . In every sentence the words must be placed in the ...
... object , the student must bear in mind that in the translation of every sentence into Latin three distinct points have to be kept in view : - I. Every construction must be correct . II . In every sentence the words must be placed in the ...
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Ablative Absolute arms army asked Athens battle Brutus Cæsar camp Carthage Carthaginians cause Cicero citizens Clarendon Press Series cloth command consul consulship continued Crown 8vo death Decius Demy 8vo emperor enemy EXERCISE Extra fcap father favour fear feel followed fortune friends Gauls George Saintsbury give Greek Hannibal happiness heart History honour hope horse human Indirect Question Introducing Verb Introduction and Notes Julius Cæsar king Latin Latin Prose live M.A. Extra fcap M.A. Second Edition means mind nature never night noble Oratio Obliqua Oxford passage passion patricians peace persons phrases Pompey present prince principles quum Romans Rome Romulus rule Samnites Senate sent sentences sesterces soldiers spirit Subjunctive Subjunctive Mood Subordinate Clause Tense things Third Edition thought tion translated truth Veientines victory virtue W. W. Skeat whole words writing youth
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Page 296 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House?
Page 302 - State or neighborhood ; when I refuse, for any such cause, or for any cause, the homage due to American talent, to elevated patriotism, to sincere devotion to liberty and the country ; or, if I see an uncommon endowment of Heaven, if I see extraordinary capacity and virtue in any son of the South, and if, moved by local prejudice or gangrened by State jealousy, I get up here to abate the tithe of a hair from his just character and just fame, — may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth...
Page 238 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 296 - Gentlemen may cry: Peace, peace! — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun ! The next gale that sweeps from the North will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms!
Page 296 - If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable, and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! " It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace; but there is no peace.
Page 182 - The man's power is active, progressive, defensive. He is eminently the doer, the creator, the discoverer, the defender. His intellect is for speculation and invention ; his energy for adventure, for war, and for conquest, wherever war is just, wherever conquest necessary.
Page 284 - You have heard as much before; — yet have you measured and mapped out this short life and its possibilities ? Do you know, if you read this, that you cannot read that — that what you lose to-day you cannot gain to-morrow ? Will you go and gossip with your housemaid, or your stable-boy, when you may talk with queens and kings...
Page 313 - Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of a family: I should have left a son who, in all the points in which personal merit can be viewed, in science, in erudition, in genius, in taste, in...
Page 231 - I purpose to write the history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living.
Page 296 - Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation?