 Puerilis, got by heart almost the entire vocabulary of Latin and French primitives and words, could make congruous syntax, turn English into Latin, and vice versa, construe and prove what he read, and did the government and use of relatives, verbs, substantives,...  Curiosities of Human Nature - Page 79by Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1818 - 598 pages
...construe and prove what he read, and did the government and use of relatives, verbs, substances, elipses, and many figures and tropes, and made a considerable progress in Comenius's Janua ; began himselfe to write legibly, and had a strong passion for Greeke. The number of verses he couH recite... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1818 - 600 pages
...construe and prove what he read, and did the government and use of relatives, verbs, substances, elipses, and many figures and tropes, and made a considerable progress in Comenius's Jantta ; began himselfe to write legibly, and had a strong passion for Greeke. The number of verses... | |
 | 1819 - 630 pages
...construe and prove what be read, and did the government and use of relatives, verbs, substances, elipses, and many figures and tropes, and made a considerable progress in Comenius's Janua ; began himselfe to write legibly, and had a strong passion for Greeke. The number of verses he could recite... | |
 | Brief memoirs - 1822 - 140 pages
...Latin, and vice versA, construe and prove what he read, and did the government and use of relatives, verbs, substantives, ellipses, and many figures and...for Greek. The number of verses he could recite was prodigious, and what he remembered of the parts of plays, which he would also act ; and when seeing... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - English literature - 1829 - 358 pages
...English into Latin, construe and prove what he had read, knew the government and use of relatives, verbs, substantives, ellipses, and many figures and tropes, and made a considerable progress in Comonius's " Janua," and had a strong passion for Greek." This is too frightful — it makes one shudder... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - English literature - 1829 - 242 pages
...English into Latin, construe and prove what he had read, knew the government and use of relatives, verbs, substantives, ellipses, and many figures and tropes, and made a considerable progress inComonius's " Janua," and had a strong passion for Greek." This is too frightful—it makes one shudder... | |
 | 1833 - 588 pages
...Latin, and, vice versa, construe and prove what he read; and did the government and use of relatives, verbs, substantives, ellipses, and many figures and...strong passion for Greek. The number of verses he could write was prodigious, and what he remembered of the parts of plays, which he •would also act; and... | |
 | Richard Brindley Hone - 1833 - 414 pages
...government and use of relatives, verbs, substantives, ellipses, and many figures and tropes, and made considerable progress in Comenius's Janua ; began...for Greek. The number of verses he could recite was prodigious, and what he remembered of the parts of plays, which he would also act; and when, seeing... | |
 | 1833 - 776 pages
...substantives, elipses, and many figures and tropes ; and made a considerable progress in Comenius'sJan1ta; began himself to write legibly ; and had a strong passion for Greek. The number of verses he could write was prodigious, and what he remembered of the parts of plays, which he would also act ; and when... | |
 | 1839 - 460 pages
...relatives, verbs, substantives, ellipses, and many figures and tropes, and made considerable progress i« Comenius's Janua ; began himself to write legibly,...for Greek. The number of verses he could recite was prodigious, and what he remembered of the parts of plays, which he would also act ; and when, seeing... | |
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