William Walker, A Treatise of English Particles (1655)
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Date
1655
Author
W. W. (alternate name for William Walker ) Note: 15/10/2005
Book title
A Treatise of English Particles Shewing How to render them according to the Proprietie and Elegancie of the Latine: with A Praxis upon the same. Whereunto is Affix't Idiomatalogiae Anglo-Latinae Specimen, or, A Taste of an English-Latine Phraseologie
Publication place
London
Printer
R. and W. L.
Publisher
T. Garthwait
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
- grammar
- Latin
Summary
68 chapters (1-220) enumerating the different roles and senses of particles, the first 51 beginning with "about" and ending with "you" and "your", and the remaining are additions. The ensuing Praxis is a dialogue in two columns, English and Latin
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
other languages: Latin
explanations: English
explanations: English
other languages: Latin
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: III. 3. What) is oft Elliptically put for that which, and then it is made by quod alone: as, There my man Parmenio gave me a hint of what I took hold on. Summonuit me Parmenio ibi servus, quod ego arripui, Ter. Eun. 3.5. Sordidi etiam putandi qui mercantur à mercatoribus, quod statim vendant, Cic. 1. Off.c. 57. (p. 186)
sample: III. 3. What) is oft Elliptically put for that which, and then it is made by quod alone: as, There my man Parmenio gave me a hint of what I took hold on. Summonuit me Parmenio ibi servus, quod ego arripui, Ter. Eun. 3.5. Sordidi etiam putandi qui mercantur à mercatoribus, quod statim vendant, Cic. 1. Off.c. 57. (p. 186)
Alston
III.i.159; XVI.80
Wing
W 441
Catalog
Kennedy, Arthur Garfield. A Bibliography on Writings on the English Language from the Beginning of Printing to the End of 1922. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1927. 2580. view record
Other editions
1663: Wing W442 (Alston XVI.81);
1668: Wing W443 (Alston XVI.82);
1670: Wing W444 (Alston XVI.83);
1673: Wing W445 (Alston XVI.84);
1676: Wing W446 (Alston XVI.85);
1679: Wing W447 (Alston XVI.86);
1683: Wing W448 (Alston XVI.87);
1686: Wing W449 (Alston XVI.88);
1691: Wing W450 (Alston XVI.89);
1695: Wing W451 (Alston XVI.90)
1668: Wing W443 (Alston XVI.82);
1670: Wing W444 (Alston XVI.83);
1673: Wing W445 (Alston XVI.84);
1676: Wing W446 (Alston XVI.85);
1679: Wing W447 (Alston XVI.86);
1683: Wing W448 (Alston XVI.87);
1686: Wing W449 (Alston XVI.88);
1691: Wing W450 (Alston XVI.89);
1695: Wing W451 (Alston XVI.90)
Facsimiles
Walker, William. A Treatise of English Particles, 1655. English linguistics 1500-1800, no. 214. Menston: Scolar Press, 1970. view record
