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"Great old chap in his way, an authority on heaven knows how many subjects, yet he scarcely makes enough money to take care of his children." "But think of the books he is giving to the world! He told Daddy he was on his thirteenth volume!" "Yes, he swims around most of the time in a sea of declensions, conjugations, and syntaxes, in Greek, Latin and English."
From this decree we gain some little insight into the means by which the taxes were raised under the Ptolemies; and we also learn that they were so new and foreign that they had no Egyptian word by which they could speak of them, and therefore borrowed the Greek word syntaxes.
"This comes of passing the four best years of his life within walls of brick, poring over Latin grammars and syntaxes, and such other nonsense, when he should have been rolling them away in a good box of live-oak, and studying, at most, how to sum up his day's work, and tell where his ship lies after a blow.
Thingumbob, have you brought any grammars, and primers, and dictionaries, and syntaxes with you?" Before he had time to reply in the negative, Miss Dundas interrupted her mother. "I wish, madam, you would leave the arrangement of my studies to myself. Does your ladyship think we would learn out of any book which had been touched by other people?
Revolving in a perpetual cycle of declensions, conjugations, syntaxes, and prosodies; renewing constantly the occupations which had charmed their studious childhood; rehearsing continually the part of the past; life must have slipped from them at last like one day.
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