The Praxis Or A Course Of English And Latin Exercises Etc

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1783 edition. Excerpt: ... and Second Future, which whoever absurdly disallows, is unworthy to be gravely reason'd with upon the Subject, as one who shuts his Eyes against Demonstration. I cannot have done with the Verbs without expreffing a Wish, That in order to prevent Errors in the making of Exercise the Teacher will always be careful to require Them to be said with the Long rather than the Short English, thus: Amo, I law, or do love, or I am loving; Amabam, I loved, or dzsid love, or I was loving See; as it is well express'd in the Eton Gram Grammar, and as Warffls Grammar refers us to sind in the marginal Addition at the Bottom of the Pa I now come to That, which it will be now thought high Time I shou'd enter upon, I mean the Mode and Method of Procedure in reading the Prose Writers and Poets among the Latins, in order to the laying in a Stock of Latinity, and thereby forming a Style for future Composition in Prose and Verse. And here I must exprefily declare against all the several Helps and Assistances which have been invented by Men for the speedier Acquisition of the Latin Tongue, except the Grammar and Dictionary. Of which Kind are the Delphin Interpretations of the Claffics, all English Translations, Parsing Indexes, Clavis Virgiliana &e. &c. &c. And in this Declaration I stand authoris'd by the Practice of the great Dr. Bushy, who strictly forbad the Use of Notes, and for the Greek and Latin Authors aIlow'd nothing but the plain Text in a correct and chaste Edition. And of the same Mind I rejoice to sind a Gentlemanlfl whose literary Lucubrations have in a few Years as largely contributed to the Good of Youth, as the much longer Labours pf Others of the same Profeffion. I confess I siwas not always thus averse to such Helps, having not...