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" Lost, could descend from his elevation to rescue children from the perplexity of grammatical confusion, and the trouble of lessons unnecessarily repeated. About this time Elwood the quaker, being recommended to him as one who would read Latin to him,... "
The Lives of the English Poets: cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler. Rochester ... - Page 80
by Samuel Johnson - 1858
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A History of Classical Scholarship ...: From the revival of learning to the ...

John Edwin Sandys - 1908 - 550 pages
...of England had doubtless extended still further by the time of Milton, who holds that ' to smatter Latin with an English mouth, is as ill a hearing as Law- French', and recommends that the speech of boys should ' be fashion'd to a distinct and clear pronuntiation...
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A History of Classical Scholarship ...: From the revival of learning to the ...

John Edwin Sandys - 1908 - 564 pages
...of England had doubtless extended still further by the time of Milton, who holds that ' to smatter Latin with an English mouth, is as ill a hearing as Law- French', and recommends that the speech of boys should ' be fashion'd to a distinct and clear pronuntiation...
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English Prose (1137-1890)

John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 574 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. Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them...
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The Beginnings of the Teaching of Modern Subjects in England

Foster Watson - 1909 - 648 pages
...England. " The Difference there is between true French and the Law French." 1 Milton says : " To smatter Latin with an English mouth is as ill a hearing as Law French." He gives familiar " speeches " regarding kindred, ' -time, number, day, week, month, weather, seasons,...
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Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose

Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1910 - 776 pages
...tongue, but are observed by all other nations to speak exceeding close and inward; so that to smatter s against the inclemencies of the weather, which was severe be Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar, and withal to season them and win them...
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Caruso's Method of Voice Production: The Scientific Culture of the Voice

Pasqual Mario Marafioti - 1922 - 342 pages
...southern tongue, but are observed by all nations to speak exceedingly close and inward; so that to smatter Latin with an English mouth is as ill a hearing as law French.' It has also been said to be due to our reserved and undemonstrative nature which leads us to avoid...
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The Life of Sir William Osler, Volume 2

Harvey Cushing - 1926 - 794 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.' ' We have the first meeting of our new Section of the History of Medicine this afternoon', he wrote...
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Areopagitica and Other Prose Writings by John Milton

John Milton - 1927 - 208 pages
...tongue; but are observed by all other nations to speak exceedingly close and inward, so that to smatter 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...
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Der Gedanke einer englischen Sprachakademie in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart

Hermann Martin Flasdieck - 1928 - 264 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 2). Hier klingt eine Erinnerung durch an die Tage, da er in Florenz mitten in dem Treiben der Akademiker...
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John Milton: 1732-1801

John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 500 pages
...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.' ^ I would recommend the whole treatise to the Reader, as the best thing both for matter and stile,...
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