A brief Greek syntax and hints on Greek accidence PDF
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lit yci THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL ENDOWED BY THE DIALECTIC AND PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETIES PA367 .F3 1876b UNIVERSITYOFN.C.ATCHAPELHILL 00009115824 THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL (fil * PRESENTED BY jj Robert Bratcher Tthhieslabsotodkaties dsuteamaptedtheunWdeArLT"DEaRteR.DuDeA/'VIISf nLotIBoRnAhRoYldon,t may be renewed by bringing it to the library. Critical Opinions of this Work. JOHN BULL. ' While the Author (the well-known Harrow Master)justly apologises for the production of a new Greek Grammar, he fullyjustifies doing so, not so much because his colleagues pressed him, as from the scholarlike and, above all, from the intelligible manner in which he simplified his Greek Grammar Mules into this Brief Greek Syntax, which bids fair to become a standard work.' EDUCATIONAL TIMES. 'Mr. Farrar's Greek Syntax differs in its method from ali, or nearly all, preceding Greek Grammars partly in its freer, ; larger, and more unhackneyed treatment of the subject, and partly in its constant reference to the general principles of comparative philology, and in its endeavour, wherever prac- ticable, to illustrate the idioms of Greek, by the similar idioms or peculiarities of other languages, especially English. The whole of this Syntax is very well clone. Mr. Farrar seems to have a happy way of explaining an intricate subject; and we are sure that any fairly-instructed youth will find no difficulty in going through this volume without any aid from a teacher. The Author has made his — Greek Syntax indeed a really readable work something far beyond a compendium of dry rules. He gives many apt quotations from some of our best old English poets and ; illustrates, often very happily, not a few peculiar construc- tions in Greek by reference to similar pages in other ... languages. In freshness and interest, in copious- ness of illustration, and in its freedom from all grammatical mysticism and pedantry, Mr. Farrar's volume surpasses all the Greek Grammars we have seen.' Critical Opinions of this Worh, MUSEUM. 'Mr.Faerae has produced a book in every way admirable, and calculated in no common degree to facilitate the study of Greek, and to make that study profitable for the educing the powers of the pupil. Mr. Farrar has shewn by his previous works that he was thoroughly acquainted with the subject of comparative philology, and had taken a high place as an original thinker and discoverer in that depart- ment. He has applied his knowledge in this little work to the elucidation of Greek Syntax. Perhaps the most striking- feature in the book is that Mr. Farrar grapples, in a fresh, independent way, with every question of Greek Syntax that comes up. He knowswhen he knows a thing with certainty, and he states what he knows in remarkably clear and un- mistakable language. He is equally decided in knowing when a point is justly a matter of doubt, and he is also equally distinct in stating Avhere exactly the doubt arises, and how it arises. This is a feature of the utmost impor- tance in a school-book. Most of the treatises on Greek Syntax often leave the young student at a loss as to what the meaning of the writer really is, and he is apt to go away from the perusal of these treatises with vague, imper- fect ideas. This one feature of Mr. Farrar's work will recommend it strongly to teachers. But there are many others which will make it exceedingly acceptable. Mr. Farrar carries his comparative philology into all portions of the work, and gives his explanation of the formation of the tenses, of the derivations of particles, of the meaning of the various terms used in grammars, and their history, and many other things only to be got by much reading and re- search. He has also employed, to a large extent, analogous examples from a variety of languages, and he calls to his use, not merely classical Greek, but the Greek of the New Testament and Modern Greek. In one word, he has made the study of Greek Syntax an interesting study for boys, and he has done this at the same time that he has amply satisfied all the demands of the present stage of scholarship and ofcomparative philology.' GREEK SYNTAX. •Inter virtutes granimatieas liabebitur aliqua tcscire.' Qulvct. 1Nou obstauthas disciplinceper illas euntibus sed circa illas haerentibus. Id. : ; A BRIEF GREEK SYNTAX AND HINTS ON GEEEK ACCIDENCE : "WITH SOME REFERENCE TO COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY, AND "WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FROM VARIOUS MODERN LANGUAGES. PflAA f&l BY THE EEV. EEEDEEIC W. FAEEAE, M.A.. F.E.S. HonoraryChaplaintotheQueen; lateFellowofTrinityCollege,Cambridge; Honorary Fellow ofKing's College,London;one oftheMasters atHarrowSchool Author oj 'Hie OriginofLanguage,' 'Chapters onLanguage? 'FamiliesofSpeech,'Ac. 3 o '1 EIGHTH EDITION. F-Zg^S LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN. AND CO. 1876. LONDON: PRINTED DY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET AND PARLIAMENT STItF.ET
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