![]() ![]() ![]() Ral and uncertain origin, is a kind of fruitless scrutiny, The tracing of words in this manner, to some conjectu. The words placed in our text as primitives, are by themĬonsidered as derivatives or compounds. They strain hard to assign some origin/how-Įver fanciful, to most words so that a good many of Tives to narrow limits, and admit but a very scanty Observe, that lexicographers generally restrict primi. Plained of, it will be proper, in the next place, to Good measure make up the disadvantage here com. Per notion of the extent of any single tribe, or of theĬonnection of its members with one another.īut as the following essay will, it is hoped, in a Scattered over the whole dictionary so that it must beĪ long time before a learner can come to have a pro. The tribes are broke, their members disjoined, and Tage of easily finding any word is secured : but then But theĭifficulty of finding the word, at last induced the mo-ĭerns to throw all into the alphabetical form, with re-įerences to the primitives. This continued for severalĪges to be the form of all our dictionaries. They could not think of dismembering aįamily, or dispersing a tribe, that nature bad so closely Rivatives, and sometimes the compounds, under the pri. Of this assortment of the words, ranged always the de. Hebrew, Greek, or Latin, sensible of the importance The compilers of all our ancient dictionaries, whether The surest, easiest, and speediest way of attaining the To proceed, therefore, in the method here proposed, is Makes the remembrance of them fixed and permanent. That of the whole tribe of words formed from it, so it Many kinsfolk all sprung from the same origin andĪs the knowledge of the primitive leads naturally to Mily, and view the derivatives and compounds as so To consider a primitive as the mother of a tribe or fa. Quickly learn, and easily retain : for he will now begin With the primitives, and affinity to one another, he will The primitivesīeing got, let him next proceed to the derivatives andĬompounds which, on account of their connection Thorough his acquaintance with them is, the sweeter and Lary, and that with accuracy for the more solid and Place, to study the primitives or text by way of vocabu. In perusing this essay, the learner ought, in the first Tural order of their connection and dependance. Of their derivatives and compounds, ranged in the na. Part of the page, by way of text and underneath, inĪ smaller type, are given large or pretty complete lists Primitives of the Latin tongue are placed on the upper Student all the assistance the case will admit of, is theĭesign of the following essay : in which the more usual To remedy this inconvenience, and give the young Out any further acquaintance with words than what On in reading authors for several years together, with. Hence it is no unusual practice for boys to run Perplexed, rather than instructed, by what he finds Rous and various, that the young scholar is apt to be Tion of words in dictionaries are generally so nume. Boys under twelve years of age cannotīe easily brought to consult a dictionary, so as to trace Tion, and composition, is none of the least perhaps Knowledge of words, as to their signification, deriva. The study of the Latin tongue, that of acquiring the LAW & WHITTAKER OGLES, DUNCAN, & COCHRAN Īmong the many difficulties that occur to youth in LANGUAGE, AND PREPARING THEM FOR THE USE OF TO A GENERAL ACQUAINTANCE WITH THE STRUCTURE OF THE TO WHICH ARE SUBJOINED, IN A SMALLER CHARACTER,ĭESIGNED AS AN EASY AND SPEEDY METHOD OF INTRODUCING YOUTH lists or catalogues of their derivatives and compounds : designed as an easy and speedy method of introducing youth to a general acquaintance with the structure of the language, and preparing them for the use of a larger dictionary"ĭigested Alphabetically* in the order of the Parts of Speech. Full text of " Tyro's dictionary, Latin and English : comprehending the more usual primitives of the Latin tongue, digested alphabetically, in the order of the parts of speech : to which is subjoined.
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