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The scholemaster. Or plaine and perfite way of teachyng children, to vnderstand, write and speake, the Latin tong. ed. with notes by J.E.B. Mayor - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 Excerpt: ... be two used wordes, yet homo nimius animi, is an unused phrase. Vulgus, et amat, et fieri, be as common and well known wordes as may be in the Latin tong, yet id quod vulgo amat fieri', for filet fieri, is but a strange and grekish kinde of writing. Ingens et vires be proper wordes, yet vir ingens virium is an unproper kinde of speaking and so be likewise, ager confilii. promptijjimus belli. territus animi. and many soch like phrases in Saluji, borowed as I sayd not choisly out of Greke, and used therefore unproperlie in Latin. Againe, in whole sentences, where the matter is good, the wordes proper and plaine, yet the sense is hard and darke, and namely in his prefaces and orations, wherein he used most labor, which fault is likewise in Thucydides in Greeke, of whom Salufi hath taken the greatest part of his darkenesse. For Thucydides likewise wrote his storie, not at home in Grece, but abrode in Italie, and therefore smelleth of a certaine outlandish kinde of talke, strange to them of Athens, and diverse from their writing, that lived in Athens and Grece, and wrote the same tyme that Thucydides did, as Lyjias, Jsenophon, Plato, and Isocrates, the purest and playnest writers, that ever wrote in any tong, and best examples for any man to follow whether he write Latin, Italian, French, or English. Thucydides also semeth in his writing not so much benefited by nature, as holpen by Arte, and caried forth by desire, studie, labor, toyle, and over great Dionys.Ha-curiositie: who spent xxvii. yeares in writing 'ihTufdt his eight bookes of his history. Sa lust likewise nisi. Thuc. wrote out of his contrie, and followed the faultes of Thuc. to moch: and boroweth of him som kinde of writing, which the Latin tong can not well beare, as Ca/us nominativus in diverse pl...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 123599922X
- ISBN 13 9781235999222
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages100
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