Elisha Coles, Nolens Volens: or You shall Make Latin whether You will or no (1675)

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Date
1675
Author
Elisha Coles Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
Nolens Volens: Or, You shall make Latin Whether you will or no. Containing the plainest Directions That have yet been given on that Subject. Together With The Youths Visible Bible: Being an Alphabetical Collection (from the whole Bible) of such General Heads as were judg'd most capable of Hieroglyphicks
Publication place
London
Printer
Andrew Clark
Publisher
T. Basset
Text type
printed book
Genre
Grammars
Subject area
  • grammar
  • Latin
Summary
Parallel columns of English and Latin quotations from the Bible, arranged alphabetically under headings
Language
headwords: English
explanations: Latin
explanations: Latin
Quotations from scripture, arranged alphabetically under headwords, in parallel English and Latin columns
Word-group
type: undifferentiated
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Nomen, which is Latin for a Noun, signifies also a Name; because a Noun is the Name of any thing; as, A Hand, Manus; An House, Domus; A Master, Magister, &c. And the name of every thing in the world is a Noun. (p. i) Ant. Formica. Go to the Ant, thou sluggard: consider her ways, and be wise. Prov. 6.6. Adire ad Formica, O piger: aspicere via is, & sapere. (p. 2)
Alston
XVI.326
Wing
C5079
Other editions
1677: Wing C5080 (Alston XVI.327);
1682: Wing C5080a (Alston XVI.328)
Criticisms
Carlton, W. J. "The Identity of Elisha Coles." Notes and Queries 165 (1933 July 8): 11. view record
Bensly, Edward. "The Identity of Elisha Coles: Oxford, `the Eye of England'." Notes and Queries 165 (1933 July 22): 49. view record
Considine, John. "Elisha Coles in Context." Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 33 (2012): 42-57. view record