A Short Introduction of Grammar Generally to be Used;: Compiled and Set Forth for the Bringing Up of All Those that Intend to Attain to the Knowledge of the Latin Tongue. To which are Added Usefull Observations by Way of Comment Out of Ancient and Late Grammarians

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At the Theater., 1709 - Latin language - 78 pages
 

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Page 10 - Profit withal, that he shall best understand, and soonest conceive the Reason of the Rules, and best be acquainted with the Fashion of the Tongue. Wherein it is profitable, not only that he can orderly decline his noun and his verb ; but every way, forward, backward? by cases, by persons ; that neither Case of Nouns, nor Person of Verb can be required, that he cannot, without stop or study, tell.
Page 10 - ... Wits, and casteth them into an Amazedness, when they know not how they shall either go forward or backward, but stick fast, as one plunged that cannot tell what to do, or which way to turn him : And then the Master thinketh the Scholar to be a dullard, and the scholar thinketh the thing to be uneasy, and too hard for his wit ; and the one hath an evil Opinion of the other, when oftentimes it is neither, but in the kind of Teaching. Wherefore the best and chiefest Point thoroughly to be kept is,...
Page 11 - ... of things learned, and especially the daily declining of a verb, and turning him into all fashions, shall make the great and heavy labour so easy and so pleasant for the framing of sentences, that it will be rather a delight unto them that they be able to do well, than pain in searching of an unused and unacquainted thing.
Page 11 - ... wherein is contained not only the eloquence of the tongue, but also a good plain lesson of honesty and godliness; and thereof take some little sentence as it lieth, and learn to make the same first out of English into Latin, not seeing the book, or construing it thereupon. And if there fall any necessary rule of the Syntax to be known, then to learn it, as the occasion of the sentence giveth cause that day ; which sentence once made well, and as nigh as may be with the words of the book, then...
Page 11 - Readiness, and maketh him more able to speak " suddenly, whensoever any present Occasion is offered " for the same. And it doth help his Learning more " a great deal to turn out of English into Latin, than " on the contrary.
Page 10 - Ama/edness, when they know not how they shall " either go forward or backward, but stick fast, as one " plunged that cannot tell what to do, or which way to " turn him : And then the Master thinketh the Scholar " to be a Dullard, and the Scholar thinketh the thing " to be uneasy, and too hard for his Wit ; and the one " hath an evil Opinion of the other, when oftentimes it " is neither, but in the kind of Teaching. Wherefore the
Page 11 - And there fall any necessary rule of the Syntax to be known, then to learn it as the Occasion of the Sentence giveth Cause that Day, which Sentence once made well, and as nigh as may be with the Words of the Book, then to take the Book and construe it, and so shall he be less troubled with the Parsing of it, and easiliest carry his Lesson in Mind.
Page 9 - ... at Trifles, and be deceived in light Matters, when he hath it not; or judge truly and faithfully of divers weighty things when he hath it. The which hath...
Page 10 - Haste overthroweth and hurtheth a great sort of Wits, and casteth them into an Amazedness, when they know not how they shall either go forward or backward, but stick fast, as one plunged that cannot tell what to do, or which way to turn him : And then the Master thinketh the Scholar to be a dullard, and the scholar thinketh the thing to be uneasy, and too hard for his wit ; and the one hath an evil Opinion of the other, when oftentimes it is neither, but in the kind of Teaching. Wherefore the best...
Page 11 - Enquiring and Examining of the Parts and the " Rules, not to be done so quickly and speedily as it " might be thought to be ; within a while, by this Use, " the Scholar shall be brought to a good kind of...

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