 | University of the State of New York. Board of Regents - 1847 - 606 pages
...tongue; but are observed by all other nations, to speak exceeding close and inward; so that to smatter Latin with an English mouth, is as ill a hearing as law French " It would be easy to specify : eg — Nora, pen'nii, not penna, Gen. pen'nu, not pennc', Dat. pen'na,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...unnecessarily repeated. About this time Ellwood the Quaker, being recommended to him as one who would read Latin to him, for the advantage of his conversation,...Latin with an English mouth is as ill a hearing as low French, required that Ellwood should learn and practise the Italian pronunciation, which, he said,... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1855 - 510 pages
...tongue, but are observed by all other nations to speak exceeding close and inward ; so that to smatter Latin with an English mouth is as ill a hearing as law French." He would then have read to them some " easy and delightful book of education;" but though there is... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1856 - 442 pages
...there are few persons of the present day so bigoted in admiration of antiquity as to feel with Milton, that " to read Latin with an English mouth, is as ill a hearing as law French." * He Recta Pronunciatione Latints Linguae, cap. 8. GREEK ORATORS. DEMOSTHENES.* IN our former article... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1856 - 768 pages
...but are observed by all other nations to speak exceeding close and inward ; so that lo smaller Lalin with an English mouth, is as ill a hearing as law French. Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar, and withal to season them and win them... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 pages
...unnecessarily repeated. About this time, Elwood, the quakcr, being recommended to him as one who would read Latin to him for the advantage of his conversation,...pronunciation, which, he said, was necessary , if he would talk with'ftreigners. This seems to have been a task troublesome without use. There is little reason for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1864 - 460 pages
...unnecessarily repeated. About this time Ellwood the Quaker, being recommended to him as one who would read Latin to him, for the advantage of his conversation,...who, in his letter to Hartlib, had declared, that to smaller Latin with an English mouth is as ill a hearing as Law French, required that Ellwood should... | |
 | Richard Quain - 1870 - 172 pages
...but are observed by all other nations to speak exceeding close and inward : So that to smatter Latins with an English mouth, is as ill a hearing as Law French." ("Of Education." The Prose Works of John Milton, vol. ii. p. 385. London : Pickering, 1851.) THE LATIN... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1871 - 930 pages
...tongue, but are observed by all other nations to speak exceeding close and inward ; so that to sjnatter Latin with an English mouth, is as ill a hearing as law French. Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar, and withal to season them and win them... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 446 pages
...there are few persons of the present day so bigoted in admiration of antiquity as to feel with Milton, that " to read Latin with an English mouth, is as ill a hearing as law French." * De Recta Promtnciatione Latiius Lingvo:, cap. 8. GREEK ORATORS. DEMOSTHENES* IN our former article... | |
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Englishmen being far northerly, do not open our mouths in the cold air wide enough to grace a southern tongue; but are observed by all other nations to speak exceeding close and inward; so that to smatter Latin with an English mouth, is as ill a hearing... 
