Longer exercises in Latin prose composition, chiefly tr. from the writings of modern Latinists: with an intr. and notes by J.W. Donaldson |
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... passages , and I have tested the utility of this practice by many years use , with my own pupils , of the body of exercises which is now sub- mitted to the public . As it will be observed , these consist of extracts from every author ...
... passages , and I have tested the utility of this practice by many years use , with my own pupils , of the body of exercises which is now sub- mitted to the public . As it will be observed , these consist of extracts from every author ...
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... passages taken from my own Latin writings , I have been influenced by a wish not to evade the responsibility incurred by the publication of a book like the present . Some feeling of the same kind induces modern organists and composers ...
... passages taken from my own Latin writings , I have been influenced by a wish not to evade the responsibility incurred by the publication of a book like the present . Some feeling of the same kind induces modern organists and composers ...
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... passages translated or given for translation in this book , I have wished , not only to collect a number of extracts interesting , amusing , or instructive on their own account , but also to show , by these examples , that a scholar may ...
... passages translated or given for translation in this book , I have wished , not only to collect a number of extracts interesting , amusing , or instructive on their own account , but also to show , by these examples , that a scholar may ...
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... passages . One of his most distinguished pupils , P. W. Van Heusde , has declared that Wyttenbach used to speak publicly in Latin without the slightest hesitation , and just as though it had been his mother - tongue : Latine loquebatur ...
... passages . One of his most distinguished pupils , P. W. Van Heusde , has declared that Wyttenbach used to speak publicly in Latin without the slightest hesitation , and just as though it had been his mother - tongue : Latine loquebatur ...
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... passage . About a page of this volume - rather more than less - will be found to be equivalent to an ordinary sixth - form exercise ; and there are not many of the selections which greatly exceed or fall short of this standard ...
... passage . About a page of this volume - rather more than less - will be found to be equivalent to an ordinary sixth - form exercise ; and there are not many of the selections which greatly exceed or fall short of this standard ...
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Page 99 - and tell you a truth, which perchance ye will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me, is, that he sent me so sharp and severe parents, and so gentle a schoolmaster. For when I am in presence either of father or mother ; whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry, or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing...
Page 98 - I wist, all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 98 - Her parents, the Duke and Duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park : I found her...
Page 101 - Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth ; yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
Page 81 - If he had not so great a stock as some have had who flourished formerly, of knowledge long treasured up, he knew better by far than any man I ever was acquainted with, how to bring together within a short time, all that was necessary to establish, to illustrate, and to decorate that side of the question he supported.
Page 99 - God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened — yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways, which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Page 99 - I bear them) so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr. Elmer ; who teacheth me so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing while I am with him. And when I am called from him, I fall on weeping, because whatsoever I do else but learning, is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me.
Page 81 - He stated his matter skilfully and powerfully. He particularly excelled in a most luminous explanation, and display of his subject. His style of argument was neither trite and vulgar nor subtle and abstruse. He hit the house just between wind and water.— And not being troubled with too anxious a zeal for any matter in question, he was never more tedious, or more earnest, than the pre-conceived opinions, and present temper of his hearers required ; to whom he was always in perfect unison. He conformed...