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OF

JACOBS' LATIN READER,

ADAPTED TO

BULLIONS' LATIN GRAMMAR;

WITH AN INTRODUCTION, ON THE IDIOMS OF THE LATIN
LANGUAGE; AN IMPROVED VOCABULARY; AND EXER-
CISES IN LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION,

ON A NEW PLAN.

BY REV. PETER BULLIONS, D. D.,

PROFESSOR OF LANGUAGES IN THE ALBANY ACADEMY; AND AUTHOR OF THE
SERIES OF GRAMMARS, GREEK, LATIN AND ENGLISH, ON

THE SAME PLAN, ETC. ETC.

NINTH EDITION.

NEW-YORK:

PRATT, WOODFORD & COMPANY,

No. 159 PEARL STREET.

1848.

Edve T 918.48, 465

Estate of
I Edward Hall

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1846, by
PETER BULLIONS.

in the Clerks Office of the Northern District of New-York.

PREFACE.

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THIS work has been prepared at the request of many teachers who use the author's Latin Grammar, and is intended to follow it as a 'First Reading Book." The body of the work consists of the first part of Jacobs' Latin Reader; a work already well known in this country, and which appears to be well adapted to the end for which it was intended. The introductory exercises, however, are arranged a little differently, and a few sentences have been introduced from other sources, for the purpose of illustrating some constructions more fully.

The object of such a work as this is to furnish to the beginner, who is supposed to have become acquainted with the leading prin. ciples of the Grammar, a praxis on those principles, both in Ety. mology and Syntax, by which they may be rendered perfectly famil iar to his mind, so as to be applied with more success and ease, when he comes to read and analyze the writings of the Roman authors. It is in fact a Supplement to the Grammar, and the founda. tion of thorough scholarship must be laid here.

In order more fully to meet the wants of the beginner, and to render the study of the Latin language more pleasant and easy to pupils of every capacity, an INTRODUCTION is prefixed, containing explanations of the leading idioms of the language, arranged under proper heads, and illustrated by numerous examples, all of which are numbered, so as to be easily referred to for the purpose of illus. trating similar modes of expression which occur in the course of reading, as is more fully explained p. 54. Though this part is intended chiefly for reference, much advantage will be derived from studying it in course in short lessons, simultaneously with lessons in reading and parsing, and rendering the whole familiar by fre quent reviews.

The Introductory Exercises consist of short and simple sentences classed in such a way as to illustrate the leading grammatical prin. ciples in the construction of sentences, both simple and compound, and by a sufficient number of examples to render these principles familiar and easy of application. In these, as well as throughout

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