 | Alexander Dallas Bache - 1839 - 724 pagine
...declaim against it may be fully forgiven. " To select one instance of this perversion, what can be more absurd than the practice of what is called construing...which we commonly think, and speak, and write. It does tliis because Greek and Latin are specimens of language at once highly perfect and incapable of being... | |
 | Alexander Dallas Bache - 1839 - 720 pagine
...declaim against it may be fiilly forgiven. " To select one instance of this perversion, what can be more absurd than the practice of what is called construing...which we commonly think, and speak, and write. It docs this because Greek and Latin are specimens of language at once highly perfect and incapable of... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1855 - 584 pagine
...the general liberality of its tastes and comparative comprehensiveness of its views and notions. " The study of Greek and Latin, considered as mere languages,...employ well that language in which we commonly think, speak and write. It does this, because Greek and Latin are specimens of language, at once highly perfect... | |
 | 1848 - 628 pagine
...is to be effected." "The study of Lalin and Greek it important, as a school exercise mainly because it enables us to understand and employ well that language...It does this because Greek and Latin are specimens at once highly perfect and incapable of being understood without long and minute attention. The study... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1845 - 572 pagine
...instance of this perversion, what can be more absurd than the practice of what is called constructing Greek and Latin, continued as it often is even with...and Latin are specimens of language at once highly perfeet and incapable of being understood without long and minute attention : the study of them, therefore,... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1845 - 540 pagine
...constructing Greek and Latin, continued as it often is even with pupils of an advanced age ? The stud}' of Greek and Latin, considered as mere languages,...and Latin are specimens of language at once highly perfeet and incapable of being understood without long and minute attention : the study of them, therefore,... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1846 - 588 pagine
...instance of this perversion, what can be more absurd than the practice of what is called constructing Greek and Latin, continued as it often is even with...and Latin are specimens of language at once highly perfeet and incapable of being understood without long and minute attention : the study of them, therefore,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1849 - 544 pagine
...Classics ;" * from which we quote a few pertinent sentences. "The study of Greek and Latin," he says, "considered as mere languages, is of importance, mainly...language, in which we commonly think and speak and write. Every lesson in Greek or Latin ought to be made a lesson in English ; the translation of every sentence... | |
 | Massachusetts Teachers Association - 1852 - 358 pagine
...is to be effected." " The study of Latin and Greek is important as a school exercise, mainly because it enables us to understand and employ well that language...It does this, because Greek and Latin are specimens at once highly perfect, and incapable of being understood without long and minute attention. The study... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 332 pagine
...the substantial basis of education itself, the importance of which he has thus forcibly illustrated: "The study of Greek and Latin, considered as mere languages, is of importance mainly as k enables us to understand and employ well that language in which we commonly think, ami speak, and... | |
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The study of Greek and Latin, considered as mere languages, is of importance mainly as it enables us to understand and employ well that language in which we commonly think, and speak, and write. It does this because Greek and Latin are specimens of language... 
