Arnold's First Latin Book: Remodelled and Rewritten, and Adapted to the Ollendorff Method of InstructionD. Appleton & Company, 1864 - 302 pages |
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1st root 2d root ablative accusative adjectives Amat-i Audit-i Balbus Caesar Caius Conj conjugation consonant dative denotes Deponent Verbs Docet ending English ĕris ĕrit essě Exercises Fact-us father fidem filias filius formed by adding fourth conjugation FUTURE PERFECT gender genitive gerund girl grammatical gender IMPERATIVE MOOD IMPERFECT INDICATIVE MOOD infinitive irregular verb king Latin Latin language LESSON loved Masc masculine neut neuter nominative nouns ōnĭs ōris Paradigm PARADIGM-continued participle passive Perf person or thing PLUPERFECT Plur Plural praise predicate prep Pres present Pronouns proposition Puella Puer Puĕri Quăm queen Rect-us REM.-The Rome RULE OF SYNTAX.-The second declension second root Servi Servus shut the gates sing Singular slave Subjunctive Mood sunt tenses third conjugation third persons thou urbem verb VOCABULARY vowel word
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Page iv - ... as are authorized by the best classic authors, so that the learner may acquire, by example as well as precept, a distinct idea of pure Latinity. It has been a leading object with the author so to classify and arrange the various topics as to simplify the subject, and, as far as possible, to remove the disheartening difficulties too often encountered at the outset in the study of an ancient language, From "WE TOLMAN, Instructor in Providence High*School.
Page 295 - The object of this Work is to enable the Student, as soon as he can decline and conjugate with tolerable facility, to translate simple sentences after given examples, and with given words; the principles trusted to being principally those of imitation and very frequent repetition.
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Page 298 - Latin text, approved by all the more recent editors. 2. A copious illustration of the grammatical constructions, as well as of the rhetorical and poetical usages peculiar to Tacitus. In a writer so concise it has been deemed necessary to pay particular regard to the connection of thought, and to the particles as the hinges of that connection.
Page 295 - First Book," in which the elementary principles of the language are unfolded, not in abstract language, difficult both to comprehend and to remember, but as practically applied in sentences. Throughout the whole, the pupil sees just where he stands, and is taught to use and apply what he learns.
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