A. Lane, A Rational and Speedy Method of Attaining to the Latin Tongue (1695)
Date
1695
Author
Book title
A Rational and Speedy Method Of Attaining to the Latin Tongue. In Two Parts. The first containing such Precepts as are common to all Languages. The Second contains what is more peculiar to the Latin Tongue. The whole being accommodated to the meanest Capacities, not only Persons of riper Years, but any Child that can read English, may, by this Method, in a little time, arrive at a greater degree of Knowledg, than is usually attain'd after several Years Drudgery in the common Road. Most Logical Terms being in this Treatise explained, the Art of Reasoning may be perfectly learned without much farther Trouble
Publication place
London
Printer
J. D.
Publisher
the Author
Text type
printed book
Genre
Grammars
Subject area
- grammar
- Latin
Word-group
type: topical
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: THere are four kinds of Words, a Substantive, an Adjective, a Verb, and a Particle. I know there are but four kinds of Words, because there are but four kinds of Things to be signified by Words: For whatever is in the whole Universe, is either a Thing, or the Manner of a Thing, the Action of a Thing, or the Manner of an Action. (p. 1)
sample: THere are four kinds of Words, a Substantive, an Adjective, a Verb, and a Particle. I know there are but four kinds of Words, because there are but four kinds of Things to be signified by Words: For whatever is in the whole Universe, is either a Thing, or the Manner of a Thing, the Action of a Thing, or the Manner of an Action. (p. 1)
Alston
XVI.545
Wing
L326
Other editions
1698: Wing L327 (Alston XVI.546)
