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They are used in pure superstition, as old clodhoppers spoil Latin by way of an exorcism. And yet they are vastly serviceable for checking unprofitable discussion and stopping the mouths of babes and sucklings. And when a young man comes to a certain stage of intellectual growth, the examination of these counters forms a gymnastic at once amusing and fortifying to the mind.
In 1773 Pastor Kunze wrote: "If I should ever obtain 20 pounds, I would buy the first German student landing at our coast and owing freight, put him in my upper room, begin a small Latin school, teach during the morning hours myself, and then let my servant teach and make my investment pay by charging a small fee." Roaming About without Altar and Ministry. Justus Falckner, in a letter to Dr.
After dinner the boy went to his room, took the coupon and the change out of his pocket, and threw the money on the table. After that he took off his uniform and put on a jacket. He sat down to work, and began to study Latin grammar out of a dog's-eared book.
How can I better prove to you how greatly I admire your Greek epigrams than by the fact that I have tried to imitate some of them and turn them into Latin? I grant they have lost in the translation, and this is due in the first place to the poorness of my wits, and in the second place and even more to what Lucretius calls the poverty of our native tongue.
Beyond his profession, which had closely engrossed him, he had heretofore taken little part in public life; his leisure, indeed, he had employed more as a student of books rather than of national affairs, as his work on the "Rudiments of Latin Prosody," published in 1760, bears witness.
She looked at him as he uttered the sonorous sounding Latin, with a comically respectful air of attention, and then laughed like a child, laughed till the tears came into her eyes. "Oh Robin, Robin!" she cried "You are simply delicious! The most enchanting boy! That crimson tie and that Latin! No wonder the village girls adore you! 'De, what is it? 'Contemptu Mundi, and Misery Human Conditions!
He knew he had heaps of time to enlarge his advantages. He started by doing one prose and one "con" a week, instead of two proses and two "cons" like the rest of the form. He also gave up one Latin construe book and one Greek book. That meant about two hours a day to idle in his study.
He put down the Latin grammar and walked to the window, where he stood for some time, and when he returned to his armchair Edna saw that the muscles of his face were unsteady. "Did he not stop to tell you good-bye?" "No, my dear, he never comes to the parsonage now. When he was a boy, I taught him here in this room, as I now teach you.
Thus records of prime truths remain a dead letter to plain folk: the writers have left so much to the imagination, and imagination is so rare a gift. Here, then, the writer of fiction may be of use to the public as an interpreter. There is a musty chronicle, written in intolerable Latin, and in it a chapter where every sentence holds a fact.
It should be admitted, however that most of those voting knew a little Hebrew, though not much. A problem in mathematics is a very simple thing compared with many of those upon which the people are called to pronounce by resolution and ballot for example, a question of finance. "The voice of the people is the voice of God" the saying is so respectably old that it comes to us in the Latin.
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