 | 1874 - 488 pages
...welcome him as better prepared for further study in other languages than if he had read both Casar and Virgil, and could parse them, in the routine style in which they are often read and parsed. I would, then, roughly CLASSIFY the things to be learned in English Grammar somewhat... | |
 | Henry Kiddle, Alexander Jacob Schem - 1876 - 900 pages
...welcome him as better prepared | for further study in other languages than if he liad read both Csesar and Virgil, and could parse them in the routine style...instead of cultivating and sharpening, his intellectual facilities. It makes him. as has been said, a " parsing machine." The definitions and rules of En-... | |
 | Henry Kiddle, Alexander Jacob Schem - 1883 - 934 pages
...brought to his notice, Grammar can be studied successfully in no other way. Parsing, without a preeiMling analysis, can lead but to a very imperfect knowledge...and rules derived from a language of inflections, to Knglish words and sentences having scarcely an inflection, is to the pupil a senseless process, and... | |
 | Henry Kiddle, Alexander Jacob Schem - 1883 - 984 pages
...welcome him as better prepared for further study in other languages than if he had read both Csesar and Virgil, and could parse them in the routine style in which they are often ]>arsed." Parsing should not be made a routine : when it becomes such, it is worse than useless. The... | |
 | Association of Catholic Colleges of the United States - 1899 - 702 pages
...aid to the pursuit of other tongues, there is the authority of the late Professor Whitney, who says: "Give me a man who can, with full intelligence, take...the routine style in which they are often parsed." Presuming on the knowledge that a student should have obtained before he begins his immediate preparations... | |
 | Modern Language Association of America - 1899 - 664 pages
...as better prepared for further study in other languages than if he had read both Ca3sar and Vergil, and could parse them in the routine style in which they are so often parsed." 6 It is thus seen that the claims of the Modern Languages and Literatures have met... | |
 | Florus Alonzo Barbour - 1901 - 86 pages
...as better prepared for further study in other languages than if he had read both Caesar and Vergil, and could parse them in the routine style in which they are so often parsed." Closely connected with, indeed quite inseparable from, this analytical insight into... | |
 | Nebraska. Department of Public Instruction - 1907 - 226 pages
...says: "Give me a man who can, with full intelligence, take to pieces an English sentence, brief but not too complicated, even, and I will welcome him...the routine style in which they are often parsed." English grammar comprises letter writing and composition. Tet how few of our high school graduates... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1896 - 540 pages
...as better prepared for further study in other languages than if he had read both Caesar and Vergil, and could parse them in the routine style in which they are so often parsed." Closely connected with, indeed quite inseparable from, this analytical insight into... | |
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Give me a man who can, with full intelligence, take to pieces an English sentence, brief and not too complicated even, and I will welcome him as better prepared for further study in other languages than if he had read both Caesar and Virgil, and could... 