Imágenes de páginas
PDF
EPUB

prefbyterians therefore it concerns to be well forewarned of you betimes; and to them I leave you.

As for your examples of feditious men, pag. 54, &c., Cora, Abfalom, Zimri, Sheba, to these you might with much more reafon have added your own name, who "blow the trumpet of fedition" from your pulpit against the prefent government: in reward whereof they have fent you by this time, as I hear, to your "own place," for preaching open fedition, while you would feem to preach against it.

your

As for your Appendix annexed of the "Samaritan revived," finding it fo foul a libel against all the wellaffected of this land, fince the very time of fhipmoney, against the whole parliament, both lords and commons, except thofe that fled to Oxford, against the whole reformed church, not only in England and Scotland, but all over Europe (in comparison whereof you and prelatical party are more truly fchifmatics and fetarians, nay, more properly fanatics in your fanes and gilded temples, than those whom you revile by those names) and meeting with no more fcripture or folid reafon in your "Samaritan wine and oil," than hath already been found fophisticated and adulterate, I leave your malignant narrative, as needing no other confutation, than the just cenfure already paffed upon you by the council of state.

COMMENCED

GRAMMAR,

Supplied with fufficient

RULES

For the Ufe of fuch as, Younger or Elder, are defirous, without more trouble than needs, to attain the LATIN TONGUE; the elder Sort especially, with little Teaching, and their own Industry.

IT

TO THE READER.

T hath been long a general Complaint, not without cause, in the bringing up of youth, and still is, that the tenth part of man's life, ordinarily extended, is taken up in learning, and that very fcarcely, the LATIN TONGUE. Which tardy proficience may be attributed to feveral causes: in particular, the making two labours of one, by learning firft the Accedence, then the Grammar in Latin, ere the language of those rules be understood. The only remedy of this was to join both books into one, and in the English Tongue; whereby the long way is much abbreviated, and the labour of understanding much more easy: a work fuppofed not to have been done formerly; or if done, not without fuch difference here in brevity and alteration, as may be found of moment. That of Grammar, touching letters and fyllables, is omitted, as learnt before, and little different from the English Spelling-book; especially fince few will be perfuaded, to pronounce Latin otherwife than their own English. What will not come under rule, by reason of the much variety in declenfion, gender, or conftruction, is alfo here omitted, left the courfe and clearness of method be clogged with catalogues inftead of rules, or too much interruption between rule and rule: which

Linaker,

Linaker, fetting down the various idioms of many verbs, was forced to do by alphabet, and therefore, though very learned, not thought fit to be read in fchools. But in fuch words, a dictionary stored with good authorities will be found the readieft guide. Of figurate conftruction, what is useful is digefted into feveral rules of Syntaxis: and Profody, after this Grammar well learned, will not need to be Englished for him who hath a mind to read it. Account might be now given what addition or alteration from other Grammars hath been here made, and for what reafon. But he who would be fhort in teaching, muft not be long in prefacing: the book itself follows, and will declare fufficiently to them who çan difcern.

COMMENCED

GRAM MA R.

ATIN Grammar is the art of right understanding, fpeaking, or writing Latin, obferved from them

who have spoken or written it beft.

Grammar hath two parts: right-wording, ufually called Etymology; and right joining of words, or Syn

taxis.

Etymology, or right-wording, teacheth what belongs to every single word or part of speech.

[blocks in formation]

DECLI NED are thofe words which have divers endings; as homo a man, hominis of a man; amo I love, amas thou loveft. Undeclined are thofe words which have but one ending, as bene well, cum when, tum then.

Nouns, pronouns, and participles, are declined with gender, number, and cafe; verbs, as hereafter in the verb.

Of Genders.

GENDERS are three, the mafculine, feminine, and neuter. The mafculine may be declined with this article hic, as hic vir a man; the feminine with this article, hæc, as hæc mulier a woman; the neuter with this article hoc, as hoc faxum a stone.

Of the mafculine are generally all nouns belonging to the male kind, as alfo the names of rivers, months, and winds!

Of

Of the feminine, all nouns belonging to the female kind, as alfo the names of countries, cities, trees, fome few of the two latter excepted: of cities, as Agragas and Sulmo, mafculine; Argos, Tibur, Prænefte, and such as end in um, neuter; Anxur both. Of trees, oleafter and fpinus, mafculine: but oleafter is read alfo feminine, Cic. Verr. 4. Acer, filer, fuber, thus, robur, neuter.

And of the neuter are all nouns, not being proper ⚫ names, ending in um, and many others.

Some nouns are of two genders, as hic or hæc dies a day; and all fuch may be spoken both of male and female, as hic or hæc parens a father or mother: fome be of three, as hic hæc and hoc felix happy.

Of Numbers.

WORDS declined have two numbers, the fingular and the plural. The fingular speaketh but of one, as lapis a ftone. The plural of more than one, as lapides ftones; yet fometimes but of one, as Athenæ the city of Athens, literæ an epiftle, ædes ædium a houfe.

Note, that fome nouns have no fingular, and fome no plural, as the nature of their fignification requires. Some are of one gender in the fingular; of another, or two genders in the plural, as reading will beft teach.

Of Cafes.

Nouns, pronouns, and participles are declined with fix endings, which are called cafes, both in the fingular and plural number. The nominative, genitive, dative, accufative, vocative, and ablative.

The nominative is the firft cafe, and properly nameth the thing, as liber a book.

The genitive is englished with this fign of, as libri of a book.

The dative with this fign to, or for, as libro to or for a book.

The accufative hath no fign.

The vocative calleth or fpeaketh to, as O liber, O book, and is commonly like the nominative.

But in the neuter gender the nominative, accufative,

« AnteriorContinuar »