This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... I Forget, for the moment--and perhaps 1 never knew--the exact date of the simultaneous emigrations from Babel. I think there must have been many grammarians that carried hods up the spirals of that never-finished tower. And I imagine they must have contracted a more than ordinary share of dizziness at ...
Read More
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... I Forget, for the moment--and perhaps 1 never knew--the exact date of the simultaneous emigrations from Babel. I think there must have been many grammarians that carried hods up the spirals of that never-finished tower. And I imagine they must have contracted a more than ordinary share of dizziness at the summit, and descended to transmit vertigo to all succeeding generations. I have had on three occasions to march through Coventry with a little regiment of Latin and Greek tyros. Oftentimes, while jogging on at their head over a dreary common, I have Quixotically attacked grammatical windmills, under the conviction that their sails were going whirr-whirr to he grinding of no corn. After laying it down as an initiatory dogma, that the two classical languages are sisters of our own good Saxon mother, I have often found it difficult to prove to my young disciples that their linguistic aunts are sisters of one another. To instance one difficulty that faces us at the outset. Their nouns are stretched upon diverse skeletons. The sides of Latin are furnished with six case-ribs, and those of Greek with but five. This would seem to indicate a difference of sex, and an Adam-and-Eve relationship. Was it in the Ante-Deucalion days, when Greek was fast asleep, that the rib was removed from his flank along Epirus? The genitive case in Greek is made to do the entire work of the genitive and some work of the ablative of Latin; the dative of the former, the entire work of the dative and another part of that of the ablative in the latter; and many syntax rules of Latin seem to allow an unreasonable choice between the genitive and ablative. The rules for the gerund are ludicrous enough; but in that for the locative case we reach the acme of grammatical...
Read Less
Add this copy of Day Dreams of a Schoolmaster to cart. $46.22, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2012 by Hardpress Publishing.
Add this copy of Day Dreams of a Schoolmaster to cart. $50.88, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2017 by hansebooks.
Add this copy of Day Dreams of a Schoolmaster to cart. $78.11, new condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2012 by Hardpress Publishing.
Add this copy of Day Dreams of a Schoolmaster to cart. $104.47, good condition, Sold by Anybook rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1864 by Edmonston and Douglas.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. half binding with marble effect, edge worn boards. Spine has gilt lettering on spines and is worn with tear at top edge. Gilt top page edges which are dusty. Small pencil inscription on end page. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 500grams, ISBN:
