The London Magazine, Volume 8Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1827 |
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... languages is so useful , but so tedious a process , that it is worth while to examine whether there is really any thing in " the Hamiltonian system " which is calculated to shorten it . Our opinion of it may be shortly expressed in the ...
... languages is so useful , but so tedious a process , that it is worth while to examine whether there is really any thing in " the Hamiltonian system " which is calculated to shorten it . Our opinion of it may be shortly expressed in the ...
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... languages , to the simple and the complex , to the unin- flected and the deeply inflected , is this . - Some easy book in the language to be acquired is chosen , in which the teacher reads aloud each word with a literal translation ...
... languages , to the simple and the complex , to the unin- flected and the deeply inflected , is this . - Some easy book in the language to be acquired is chosen , in which the teacher reads aloud each word with a literal translation ...
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... language , are also infallibly obtained .- [ Good Lord ! ] - To these advantages the teacher must not hesitate to sacrifice the harmony of English periods ; nay , his translation must not be the English of the phrase , but the English ...
... language , are also infallibly obtained .- [ Good Lord ! ] - To these advantages the teacher must not hesitate to sacrifice the harmony of English periods ; nay , his translation must not be the English of the phrase , but the English ...
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... language of a simple construction , the French for instance , what rational man can doubt that much time would be saved , if , instead of setting the pupils to learn by rote , ( for that is the real process , ) words in a language , of ...
... language of a simple construction , the French for instance , what rational man can doubt that much time would be saved , if , instead of setting the pupils to learn by rote , ( for that is the real process , ) words in a language , of ...
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... language are best learned by habitual observation and imitation ; by considering the structure as a whole , ( and not in its disjointed parts , ) and by noting its peculiarities as they occur . To fix these peculiarities in the mind ...
... language are best learned by habitual observation and imitation ; by considering the structure as a whole , ( and not in its disjointed parts , ) and by noting its peculiarities as they occur . To fix these peculiarities in the mind ...
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