Anonymous, The Way of Teaching the Latin Tongue by Use (1685)
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Date
1685
Author
Book title
The way of teaching the Latin tongue by use, to those that have already learn'd their mother tongue. In way of dialogue
Publication place
London
Publisher
Nathaniel Ponder
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
- grammar
- Latin
Summary
A dialogue on language-learning and, indirectly, on English
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type: other
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type: other
sample: That there is no great difference, between Learning of our Native Speech from Infancy, and of another Tongue at 9 or 10 years of Age, in a Forreign Country, I think I may grant; For it is said of Tom. Coriat, that when he had been a Month or two in India, he could scold in the Indostan Language, with any Fap-moutht Quean of that Country. (p. 5; from Alston, XVI, plate CLXA)
sample: That there is no great difference, between Learning of our Native Speech from Infancy, and of another Tongue at 9 or 10 years of Age, in a Forreign Country, I think I may grant; For it is said of Tom. Coriat, that when he had been a Month or two in India, he could scold in the Indostan Language, with any Fap-moutht Quean of that Country. (p. 5; from Alston, XVI, plate CLXA)
Alston
XVI.498a
Wing
W1165
