First Greek reader, for the use of schools

Archibald Hamilton Bryce

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FIRST GREEK READER:
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AKci). H^BRYCE, LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.8.E.
RECTOA OF THX EDLNBtrBOH COLLEGIATE SCHOOL.
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LONDON:
NELSON AND SONS, PATERNOSTERT. ROW;
EDISBURaH AND NEW YORK.
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Header, anThis volume is at once a Grammar, a
a Vocabulary. Its aim is two-Exercise-Book, and
fold : First, To give a complete view of the In-
flexions of Nouns and Yerbs, with a careful regard
to simplicityand clearness and, Secondly, To supply;
a series of interesting and easy lessons in continuous
reading.
In the grammatical part of the work care has
been taken not to overload the text with minutisD
and exceptions, which onlyserve to confuse and
bewilder the beginner but to afford merely the;
amount of information considered necessary in a First
Course. The Nouns and Verbs are so arrancred,
that each class of Inflexions is kept separate and
distinct ; and numerous Exercises follow each para-
digm, in order that the characteristics of one group
may be fixed in the mind of the pupil before bis
attention is invited to another The Nouns of the
Third Declension have been classified on a plan;
iv PREFACE,
which, it is hoped, will lead to a due appreciation of
multiformthe peculiarities belonging to that division.
especially, Appendix,(See, 160.)p,
The Verb has been set forth in one tabular view,
and has been introduced as little as possible in the
earlier Exercises, from the conviction that the method
of teaching it piecemeal, and in a desultory manner,
regard similarity or of mean-without any to of stem
ing, is certain to result in confusion to the pupil and
disappointment to the master.
Adjectives should always be taught simultaneously
with Substantives, and each gender-form by itself,
text II. III.as suggested in the (Section 6, and 8)
but to afford facilities for comparing form with form,
and to gratify those Teachers who may prefer the
old mode^ paradigms have been printed in full de-
clension at sqq. In the section on the Com-p. 43,
parison of Adjectives, a new arrangement has been
asproposed, which aims at giving simplicity as well
grammar hithertosymmetry to a chapter of Greek
devoid of unity ofunnecessarily complicated, and
principle.
Rules of Contraction will be found brief,The
simple, and comprehensive.* They have been bor-
rowed, with the kind permission of the author, from
* of Euphony,Itmust beborne In mind, tliat in regard to the Rules of Contraction,
lessons, all the roinutiwof Accent, <fcc., as laid down in this first coni'se of Greek
exceptions peculiarities to a secondand are not glTen; the less common belonR
course, or and The principles set forth will- itto a systematic complete Grammar.
this volume.Is believed, be found to cover everything required in the use ofPREFACE. ^
Greek Grammarby the Rev. I)r. Brycea forthcoming
of Belfost.
mainly asExercises of Part I. are intendedThe
the strictpraxis on the Inflexions, and to this enda
been entirelyarrangement of the Sjmtax haslogical
Construction have there-subordinated.* The Rules of
such order, and to such anfore been introduced in
deemed most consistent with theextent, as has been
most conducive to rapid progress.fgenei-al plan, and
The which by easy steps increase in difli-sentences,
culty, have been selected, as far as possible, from
words and ofclassical authors but the choice of;
veiy much restrictedappropriate phrases has been
in the design of the work. Theby peculiar features
of familiar objects, and words of frequentnames
occurrence in general reading, claim a primary place
in the Vocabulary of elementary works dealing with
a foreicrn lan2aias:e ; and such have therefore been
chosen in preference to more rare and more dignified
have largely taken from theterms. They been
Reading Lessons of Part II., in order that the prin-
ciple of frequent repetition may have as much play
as possible and that, when students arrive at the;
more difficult task of unravelling complex sentences,
the often recurring faces of old friends may, by
diminishing their difficulties, encourage them onward
• A companion volume to the present isinpreparation, which willassumetheform
sf an Exercise-Book, and in which theSyntax will be theprimaryobject of attentioa
t A brief rtsitme of the Sj-ntaz ofSimple Seatenceswin be foond in the Appendi:£.PREFACE.
in their labours. Sentences of an abstruse or philo-
sophical kind, such as too often form the staple of
Introductory Readers, have been avoided, as tending
rather to repel than to invite the young. The Eng-
lish portions Exercises areof the meant merely as
examples for imitative practice, and notare intended
to supersede the use of a methodically arranged
Manual of Greek Composition. "Vocabularies have
not, for very obvious reasons, been attached to the
Exercises, but have been supplied at a different part
of the book, 164.p.
theIt is of utmost consequence that, in studying
a foreign language, pupils should daily, and from the
very first, make practical use of the principles and
facts which they learn from the Grammar. For such
pi-axis short and easy clauses are, in the earher stages,
indispensable, but it is possible to continue their use
to an unnecessary extent, inasmuch as the power of
grapple with difficulties ofa boy to the complex
sentences is by no means in proportion to the time
spent in analysing simple sentences. It has therefore
been deemed prudent to introduce promiscuous read-
ing lessons as soon as the learner has fairly got over
and their companion Exercises.the Parts of Speecli
And thus the Extracts forming Part II. have been
chosen with this view, that, while the pupil's ingenuity
is exercised in the discrimination of mixed grammati-
hiscal forms and the analysis of compound sentences,