Latin language -- Readers; Natural history -- Juvenile literature; Picture books for children
III. Then let him get the Titles and Descriptions by heart, which he
will more easily do, by reason of these impressions which the viewing of
the pictures hath already made in his memory. And now let him also
learn, 1. To construe, or give the words one by one, as they answer one
another in Latin and English. 2. To Parse, according to the rules,
(which I presume by this time) he hath learn’d in the first part of his
Accidence; where I would have him tell what part of Speech any word is,
and then what accidents belong to it; but especially to decline the
nouns and conjugate the verbs according to the Examples in his
Rudiments; and this doing will enable him to know the end and use of his
Accidence. As for the Rules of Genders of Nouns, and the
Præter-perfect-tenses and Supines of Verbs, and those of Concordance and
Construction in the latter part of the Accidence, I would not have a
child much troubled with them, till by the help of this Book he can
perfectly practise so much of Etymology, as concerns the first part of
his Accidence only. For that, and this book together, being thoroughly
learn’d by at least thrice going them over, will much prepare children
to go chearfully forward in their Grammar and School-Authors,
especially, if whilst they are employed herein, they be taught also to
write a fair and legible hand.
There is one thing to be given notice of, which I wish could have been
remedied in this Translation; that the Book being writ in high-Dutch
doth express many things in reference to that Country and Speech, which
cannot without alteration of some Pictures as well as words be expressed
in ours: for the Symbolical Alphabet is fitted for German children
rather than for ours. And whereas the words of that Language go orderly
one for one with the Latin, our English propriety of Speech will not
admit the like. Therefore it will behove those Masters that intend to
make use of this Book, to construe it verbatim to their young Scholars,
who will quickly learn to do it of themselves, after they be once
acquainted with the first words of Nouns, and Verbs, and their manner of
variation.
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