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. 1787 edition. Excerpt: ... do, it makes perfcia, I finifh, I do thoroughly, I complete: when added to nouns, it has the fame effeft; difficilis, hard, perdifficilis, thoroughly, completely hard; jucundus, agreeable, ferjucundus, thoroughly agreeable. If you attend to thefe obfervations, it will fave you a great deal of trouble ...
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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. 1787 edition. Excerpt: ... do, it makes perfcia, I finifh, I do thoroughly, I complete: when added to nouns, it has the fame effeft; difficilis, hard, perdifficilis, thoroughly, completely hard; jucundus, agreeable, ferjucundus, thoroughly agreeable. If you attend to thefe obfervations, it will fave you a great deal of trouble in looking in the dictionary. As you are now pretty well mafter of moft of the rules, what you chiefly want, both in Latin and Greek, is the words, in order to conftrue authors;. and therefore I would advife you to write down, and learn by heart, every day, for your own amufement, befides what you do with Mr. Maittaire, ten words in Greek, Latin, and Englifli, oat of a dictionary or a vocabulary, which will go a great way in a year's time, confidering the words you know already, and thofe you will learn befides in conftruing with Mr. Maittaire. Adieu. LETTER XV. DEAR BOY, Tuefday. I WISH I had as much reafon to be fatisfied with your remembering what you have once learned, as with your learning it; but what fignifies your learning any thing foon, if you forget it as foon? Memory depends upon attention, and your forgetfulnefs proceeds fmgly from a want of attention. For example; I dare fay, if I told you that fuch a day next week you ftould have fomething that you liked, you would certainly remember the day, and call upon me for it. And why? only becauie you would attend to it. Now a Greek or a Latin verfe is as eafily retained as a day of the week, if you would give the fame attention to it. I now remember, and can dill repeat, all that I learnt when I was of your age; but it is becaufe I then attended to it, knowing that a little attention would fave me the trouble of learning the fame things over and over again. A man will never do any...
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