Excerpt from Viri Illustres Urbis Romļæ½, a Romulo Ad Augustum In order to assist them at their entrance on the study of the Latin language, literal translations have been recommended by some teachers of eminence; but by a great majority of our most distinguished preceptors, they have been rejected, from a convie tion that. They did not answer the purpose for which they were intended, and that they had an evident ten deney to lead the pupils to habits of sloth and idle ness, than which there is none more dangerous to fu-i ...
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Excerpt from Viri Illustres Urbis Romļæ½, a Romulo Ad Augustum In order to assist them at their entrance on the study of the Latin language, literal translations have been recommended by some teachers of eminence; but by a great majority of our most distinguished preceptors, they have been rejected, from a convie tion that. They did not answer the purpose for which they were intended, and that they had an evident ten deney to lead the pupils to habits of sloth and idle ness, than which there is none more dangerous to fu-i ture usefulness can be possibly acquired at school. For it is a lamentable fact, that such habits, when contracted in early life, can never be eradicated with out great trouble. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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