Adam's Latin Grammar: With Some Improvements and the Following Additions : Rules for the Right Pronunciation of the Latin Language, a Metrical Key to the Odes of Horace, a List of Latin Authors Arranged According to the Different Ages of Roman Literature, Tables Showing the Value of the Various Coins, Weights, and Measures Used Among the Romans

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Hilliard, Gray, and Company, 1839 - Latin language - 299 pages
 

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Page ii - States entitled an act for the encouragement of learning hy securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the author., and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and also to an act entitled an act supplementary to an act, entitled an act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and...
Page ii - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Page ii - DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT. DISTRIcT CLERK'S OFFIcE. BE it remembered, that on the...
Page 14 - I teach. A compound word is that which is made up of two or more words ; or of one word and some syllable added ; as, impius, impious ; dedoceo, I unteach ; egomet, I myself.
Page 208 - Latinam linguam, to translate ; verba, to use metaphorically ; culpam in eum, & rejicere, to lay the blame or. him. II. FIGURES OF SYNTAX. A Figure is a manner of speaking different from the ordinary and plain way, used for the sake of beauty or force. The figures of Syntax or Construction may be reduced to these three, Ellipsis, Pleonasm, and Hyperbaton.
Page 209 - If the substantives be of different persons, the verb plural must agree with the first person rather than the second, and with the second rather than the third ; as...
Page 189 - The gerund in DO of the dative case is governed by adjectives signifying usefulness or fitness; as, Charta utllis scribcado, Paper useful for writing.
Page 206 - But if a nominative come between the relative and the verb, the relative will be of that case, which the verb or noun following, or the preposition going before, use to govern.
Page 66 - ADJECTIVES are either of the first and second declension, or of the third only...
Page 91 - Ye or you were, 3. Erat, He was; Erant, They were. Perfect, have been or was. 1. Fui, I have been, Fuimus, We have been, 2. Fuisti, Thou hast been, Fuistis, Ye have been, [been.

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