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An introduction to the making of Latin. Comprising, after an easy, compendious method, the substance of the Latin syntax. With proper English examples, most of them translations from the classic authors, in one column, and the Latin words in another. To which is subjoin'd, in the same method, a succinct account of the affairs of ancient Greece and Rome; intended at once to bring boys acquainted with history, and the idiom of the Latin tongue : with rules for the gender of nouns

Archive Print Item: Thompson Collection 87/CLA

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Type of record: Book

Title: An introduction to the making of Latin. Comprising, after an easy, compendious method, the substance of the Latin syntax. With proper English examples, most of them translations from the classic authors, in one column, and the Latin words in another. To which is subjoin'd, in the same method, a succinct account of the affairs of ancient Greece and Rome; intended at once to bring boys acquainted with history, and the idiom of the Latin tongue : with rules for the gender of nouns

Level: Item

Classmark: Thompson Collection 87/CLA

Creator(s): Clarke, John (1687-1734)

Additional creator(s): Clarke, John (1687-1734) (Other)

Related people: Clarke, John

Publisher: printed for C. Hitch, and L. Hawes, and J. Hodges

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1757

Language: English

Size and medium: xii,297,[1]p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/330114

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002608299705181

Description

Clarke's "A dissertation upon the usefulness of translations of classic authors" has separate title-page (p.[277]).


Advertisements for Hitch's publications on p.[278],[298].

Additional description

Name John Lyng on title-page.

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