 At my first sitting to read to him, observing that I used the English pronunciation, he told me if I would have the benefit of the Latin tongue, not only to read and understand Latin authors, but to converse with foreigners, either abroad or at home,...  The Monthly magazine - Side 307af Monthly literary register - 1821Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | John Milton - 1890 - 666 sider
...tongue as he pleased to hear me read. At my first sitting to read " to him, observing that I used the English pronunciation, he told " me, if I would have...consenting, he instructed me how to sound the vowels. . . . " But this change of pronunciation proved a new difficulty to me. . . . " He, on the other hand,... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 546 sider
...tongue as he pleased to hear me read. At my first sitting to read to him, observing that I used the English pronunciation, he told me if I would have...at home — I must learn the foreign pronunciation. The Latin thus spoken seemed as different from that which was delivered as the English generally speak... | |
 | Charles Edward Cutts Birch Appleton, Charles Edward Doble, James Sutherland Cotton, Charles Lewis Hind, William Teignmouth Shore, Alfred Bruce Douglas, Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, Thomas William Hodgson Crosland - 1900 - 578 sider
...tongue as he pleased to hear me read. At my first sitting to read to him, observing that I used the English pronunciation, he told me, if I would have...Latin authors, but to converse with foreigners either »broad or at home, I must learn the foreign pronunciation. To this I consentid, he instructing me... | |
 | George Fox - 1903 - 556 sider
...tongue as he pleased to hear me read. " At my first sitting to read to him, observing that I used the English pronunciation, he told me, if I would have...consenting, he instructed me how to sound the vowels. . . . " I had before, during my retired life at my father's, by unwearied diligence and industry, so... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 532 sider
...tongue as he pleased to hear me read. At my first sitting to read to him, observing that I used the English pronunciation, he told me if I would have...at home — I must learn the foreign pronunciation. The Latin thus spoken seemed as different from that which was delivered as the English generally speak... | |
 | 1903 - 402 sider
...hear me read. At my first sitting to read to him, observing that I used the English pronounciation ; he told me, " If I would have the benefit of the Latin...either abroad or at home ; I must learn the foreign pronounciation." To this, I consenting, he instructed me how to sound the vowels so different [ly]... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 sider
...tongue as he pleased to hear me read. At my first sitting to read to him, observing that I used the English pronunciation, he told me if I would have...consenting, he instructed me how to sound the vowels. . . . But this change of pronunciation proved a new difficulty to me. . . . He, on the other hand,... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1882 - 940 sider
...reader after his blindness, and says : — " At my firat sitting to him, observing that I used the English pronunciation, He told me if I would have the benefit of the Latin tongue, not only to understand and read Latin authors, but to converse with foreigners, abroad or at home, I must have... | |
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