An Essay Upon Study Author:John Clarke Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: one already Acquainted with the Latin Tongue. For as the French Language has no Declenfion rof Nouns, it is a Stranger to that vaft Variety of Syntax in the Lati... more »n, ;op? cpfipned by the NounS there haying Cafes, to exprefs the different Re lajtious of Things to one another in Difcourfe ; which Relations, in tbf French Language, as well as Qrs, afe by Prgppfitipas. Grarnmars have ufually at of Dialogues in th£ Ljpguagg, with .Tfa$gsioj). :as the of grcegd. h, with the h§lp .of bi JBible. I|e /jiay 4 well to go every , twjce than if he was to content himfelf with a Single reading. I recommend the ufe of the French Bible to a Learner, becaufe he will there find a much nearer agreement with the Manner of Expreffion in the Englifh, than he will betwixt any other French Books and their Tranflations : Wherein ufu- ally a good deal of Liberty is taken, of receding from the Words of the Original French. Aclofe application in this Way for three or four Months together, will bring a Young Man to read fuch Authors, as he will have occafion to Look into pretty readily, and without any great occafion for a Dictionary. XL I mall conclude this Chapter with a fliort Lefture upon a Fault, which does not indeed Properly fall under the Title of it, as being noc committed by the Students them- felves, but by fuch as have the diipo- fal of them when Young ; yet, however as it has a fatal Influence upon ftudy, and I can hardly find a more proper Place for it, I mall take the N LibertyLiberty to infert what I have to fay upon it here. The fault I mean, is that of fending Boys too Young, or not fufficiently qualified for it, to the Univerfity : A thing of very dangerous Conlequence, not' only to their ftudies, but Morals too. The Vulgar Method of teaching, followed in our ..Schools, ...« less