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Page 200 - GREEK READER. Edited after KARL HALM, with Corrections and large Additions by JOHN EB MAYOR, MA, Fellow and Classical Lecturer of St. John's College, Cambridge.
Page 207 - Edition. In one thick volume, 12mo, half-bound. 12*. The argument of each book is broken into short parts, which are inserted in the text before each paragraph, in order to give the student an idea of what follows. The notes to the first four books are abridged from Mr. Arnold's other editions of Homer, the rest are from Dubner.
Page 209 - ... prose, synonymes distinguished, and the usage and idioms of both languages exemplified by copious phrases from named authors. It claims to be a Lex-icon in the proper sense of the word, such that a foreigner being a good Greek scholar, could acquire from it a knowledge of English almost as complete (except for what is essentially modern) as would be furnished by a good English dictionary in his own language; in which, therefore, the English student may expect to find the right words and the suitable...
Page 201 - Henry's First Latin Book" is used, a want of additional Exercises has been felt. This it is now intended to supply by a little book merely supplementary, containing no new rules, and but few new -words. The sentences are either modifications of those in the original work, or translations from some Latin author. By far the greater part of the phrases, in fact, have been taken from Cassar, Cicero, Livy, and Sallust. The Exercises are numbered to correspond with those in Henry's First Latin Book, and...
Page 208 - The Introduction gives a complete history of the principal actors, and explains the different scenes and plot of each play, whilst its object and the date of its production are thoroughly discussed : the character of the actors is also compared with that given by other poets.
Page 208 - Demosthenes, with English Notes from the best and most recent sources, Sauppe, Doberenz, Jacobs, Dissen, Westermann, &c. The Olynthiac Orations. Second Edition. 12mo. 3s. The Oration on the Crown. Second Edition. 12mo. 4s. 6d. The Philippic Orations. Second Edition. 12mo. 4s.
Page 206 - Edition. 8vo. 5*. 6d. In each lesson of this book a portion of the Accidence is learnt and impressed upon the memory by an exercise containing numerous examples on the declensions, conjugations, and simple government of words, with which the pupil becomes familiar by constant repetition. In the second part, exercises are given on the verbs in...
Page 206 - In the second part, exercises are given on the verbs in fit, the contracted and irregular verbs, and on the principles of word-building; this part is preceded by a short treatise on accentuation, and the pupil is required to accentuate his Greek. The questions on the Accidence and Accentuation will be found very useful to the tutor. A Practical Introduction to Greek Prose Composition.