 | Sir Morell Mackenzie - 1893 - 358 sivua
...tonguev but are observed by all other nations to speak exceeding close and inward ; so that to smatter Latin with an English mouth is as ill a hearing as law French." Then look at our American cousins, in whom it is not the mouth. but the nose that is the " peccant... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 sivua
...confusion, and the trouble of lessons unnecessarily repeated. 20 About this time Elwood the quaker, being recommended to him as one who would read Latin...pronunciation, which, he said, was necessary, if he would talk with foreigners. This seems to have been a task troublesome without use. There is little reason for... | |
 | John Milton - 1895 - 120 sivua
...tongue ; but are observed by all other nations to speak exceeding close and inward : so that to smatter Latin with an English mouth, is as ill a hearing as Law- 10 French. Next to make them expert in the usefullest points of Grammar, and withal to season them,... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - 1900 - 702 sivua
...coming of the stranger, led their tenantry, when the stranger came, to the muster at Tilbury." — " Milton, who, in his letter to Hartlib, had declared,...Latin with an English mouth is as ill a hearing as Low French, required that Elwood should learn and practice the Italian pronunciation, which, he said,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 sivua
...grammatical confusion and the trouble of lessons unnecessarily repeated. About this time Elwood the quaker, being recommended to him as one who would read Latin...for the advantage of his conversation, attended him 30 every afternoon except on Sundays. Milton, who, in his letter to Hartlib, had declared that to read... | |
 | George Charles Williamson - 1905 - 156 sivua
...tongue ; but are observed by all other nations to speak exceedingly close and inward, so that to smatter Latin with an English mouth, is as ill a hearing as law French. Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar, and withal to season them and win them... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 172 sivua
...confusion, and the trouble of lessons unnecessarily repeated. About this time, Ellwood the Quaker, being recommended to him as one who would read Latin to him for the ad- 30 vantage of his conversation, attended him every afternoon except on Sundays. Milton, who, in... | |
 | JOHN MASEFIELD - 1907 - 550 sivua
...tongue, but are observed by all other nations to speak exceeding close and inward ; so that to smatter Latin with an English mouth is as ill a hearing as law French. Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar, and withal to season them and win them... | |
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Lost, could descend from his elevation to rescue children from the perplexity of grammatical confusion, and the trouble of lessons unnecessarily repeated. About this time Elwood the quaker, being recommended to him as one who would read Latin to him,... 
