The Principles Of Greek Grammar Comprising The Substance Of The Most Approved Grammars Extant For The Use Of Colleges And Academies

Author : Peter Bullions
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330218242
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book Principles of Greek Grammar written by Peter Bullions and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Principles of Greek Grammar: Comprising the Substance of the Most Approved Greek Grammars Extant This work has now been so long before the public, and is so well known, that a detailed account of it is unnecessary. It is sufficient to say, that the object intended to be accomplished was, to provide a comprehensive manual of Greek Grammar, adapted to the use of younger as well as of more advanced students in our schools and colleges. Time and experience have only strengthened the conviction, long entertained, that no system of Grammar will answer a good purpose, for those who pursue this study at an early age, which does not present the leading facts and principles in such a way as to be easily committed to memory, and so to be always ready for immediate application when necessary. This principle has been steadily kept in view in preparing the following work, as well as the others belonging to this series. The leading and fundamental principles have been reduced to definitions and rules, brief, and easy to be committed to memory, and are rendered conspicuous by being printed in large type; while, at the same time, copious illustrations of these principles, and of the exceptions and varieties of usage under them, with every thing important to aid the advanced student, have been inserted in their place in smaller type, in the form of Observations and Notes, all of which are numbered for the sake of easy reference. When the leading parts of Grammar are first actually committed to memory, and then constantly applied in the inflection of words, and in analyzing their forms, they soon become so thoroughly understood and fixed in the memory as hardly ever to be effaced, and to be always ready afterwards to account for every form which words, in their numerous changes, assume, and to solve every difficulty caused by these changes almost without an effort of thought. A student, though young, if thus exercised but for one year or two, has an immense advantage, in the future prosecution of his studies, over those who have not laid the foundation of their success in a thorough course of drilling. In the preface to the first edition, a full statement was given of the principal sources from which the materials hero collected were drawn, and which need not here be repeated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.