INTRODUCTION то LATIN SYNTAX. FROM THE EDINBURGHI STEREOTYPE Edition. REVISED AND CORRECTED BY A. R. CARSON, TO WHICH IS ADDED, COPIOUS EXERCISES UPON THE DECLINABLE PARTS AND AN EXEMPLIFICATION OF THE SEVERAL BY DAVID PATTERSON, A. M. Late Rector of the Grammar School of Kirkwall, and Teacher of NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY COLLINS & HANNAY, AND COLLINS & CO HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY GIFT OF GEORGE ARTHUR PLIMPTON Southern District of New-York, ss. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the 27th, [day of November, A. D. 1827, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the United States of America, W. E. Dean, of the said District, hath deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words following, to wit: "Mair's Introduction to Latin Syntax. From the Edinburgh stereotype edition. Revised and Corrected by A. R. Carson, Rector of the High School of Edinburgh: To which is added, Copious Exercises on the Declinable Parts of Speech; and an Exemplification of the several Moods and Tenses. By David Patterson, A. M., late Rector of the Grammar School of Kirkwall, and Teacher of Languages, New-York." In conformity to the Act of Congress of the United States, entitled "An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned." And also to an Act, entitled "An Act, supplementary to an Act, entitled an Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." FRED. J. BETTS. Clerk of the Southern District of New-York. W. E. Dean, Printer. EDITOR'S PREFACE. THE ordinary editions of Mair's Introduction abound so much in errors, that this popular school book has been thereby rendered almost unfit for use. A few years ago it was revised and corrected by A. R. Carson, Rector of the High School of Edinburgh, and stereotyped. From this edition, the most accurate and valuable which has yet appeared, the present work has been printed. But Mair's Introduction affords us merely an exemplification of the Rules of Construction. It has always appeared to the editor that an exemplification of the Moods and Tenses of the Verb was no less necessary than the former. For certainly few tasks can be more dry, unmeaning, and repulsive to the young student than the tabular forms of nouns and verbs, as exhibited in our Grammars. To supply this defect, the editor has compiled suitable exercises on the Declinable parts of Speech, and an exemplification of the Moods and Tenses. This division of the work, if properly understood, will form an admirable introduction to translating and will prepare the student to enter on that business with intelligence. New-York, November, 1827. DAVID PATTERSON. |