Preparatory Latin Course in English; Fiftieth Thousand (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: lacked every charm of manner, we name here only Quin-til'i- an, the writer on rhetoric?who, perhaps, from his store will supply us with material for enriching the variety and in- structiveness of future pages of the present series of vol umes. Our readers can easily see that, with a magazine of resources accessible, so large and so various as is the literature thus imperfectly described, it will be next to impossible not to draw for our use what, properly presented, will make up a full and an appetizing intellectual feast. Now forward, with but one more brief stage of delay, to that part of the proof which belongs to this volume. IV. A WORD OR TWO OF ADVICE. In concluding the previous chapter our impulse was to begin at once here with something highly interesting. This, in our next chapter, we shall show that we could very easily have done. On the whole, however, we decide to keep that impulse in check, until we shall first have given certain of our readers some good advice about their proper course of proceeding. The advice to be submitted is, perhaps, hardly more than suggestion; for no one need follow it who is not that way inclined. In fact, those readers with whom good advice is a favorite aversion may, if they like, just drop the thread right here, to take it up again unbroken at the beginning of the next chapter. To these last readers nothing probably will be lost by their skipping of a few pages here, except barely the good advice itself contained therein?small loss that, since they would not in any case have been apt, against their liking, to follow the good advice, and so get the resultant practical benefit aimed at in their behalf. No offense, we trust, even to these readers?for we quite understand that our office here is to make Latin literature .eas...