Arnold's First Latin Book

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D. Appleton & Company, 1857

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الصفحة 287 - ... from nine to twelve years. In the first fifty pages, by means of lessons on the inductive system, and copious exercises under each, the pupil is made familiar with the nature and use of the different parts of speech, so as to be able to recognize them at once. He is then led to consider the different kinds of clauses and sentences, and is thus prepared for Punctuation, on which subject he is furnished with well considered rules, arranged on a new and simple plan. Directions for the use of capital...
الصفحة 282 - On examination, it will be found that more than ordinary labor has been expended upon this work, and that the author has proceeded upon higher principles, and has had higher aims in view than historical compilers ordinarily propose to themselves. Instead of being a mere catalogue of events, chronologically arranged, it is a careful, laborious, and instructive digest of the laws, customs, manners, institutions, and civilization of the ancient and mpdern nations.
الصفحة 280 - Rugby, and agrees in its character with his enlightened and pious views of teach ing history. It is now several years since I adapted this history to the form and price acceptable in the schools in the United States. I have recently revised it, and trust that it may be extensively serviceable in education.
الصفحة 300 - Life and Exploits of Alexander the Great. Edited and illustrated with English Notes, by WILLIAM HKNRY CKOSBT.
الصفحة 289 - English Grammar, embracing not only all that has been developed by the later philologists, but also the results of years of study and research on the part of its author. One great advantage of this book is its admirable arrangement. Instead of proceeding at once to the dry details which are distasteful and discouraging to the pupil, Mr. M. commences by viewing the sentence as a whole, analyzing it into its proper parts, and exhibiting their...
الصفحة 280 - Small as the compass of it is, we may confidently affirm that it is a great improvement on all preceding works of the kind. We no longer meet with the wretched old method, in which subjects essentially distinct are herded together, and connected subjects disconnected, but have a simple, systematic arrangement, by which the reader readily receives a clear representation of Roman life.
الصفحة 7 - These parts of speech, either singly or combined, form propositions or sentences; as, amas, thou lovest; puer ludit, the boy plays. 3. Every proposition, however simple, consists of two parts : (1.) the subject, or the person or thing of which it speaks ; and, (2.) the predicate, or that which is said of the subject : thus, in the proposition, puer lud/it, puer (the boy) is the subject...
الصفحة 111 - PERFECT fuero, / shall have been fuerimns, we shall have been fueris, thou wilt have been fueritis, you will have been fuerit, he will have been fuerint, they will have been...
الصفحة 287 - are intended for beginners in Grammar and Composition, and should be placed in their hands at whatever age it may be deemed best for them to commence these branches — say from nine to twelve years. In the first fifty pages, by means of lessons on the inductive system, and copious exercises under each, the...
الصفحة 112 - Ye may be, 3. Sit, He may be ; Sint, They may be, Imperfect, might, could, would, or should,. 1.

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