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
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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
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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