Polyglot Reader and Guide for Translation, Consisting of a Series of English Extracts, with Their Translation Into French, German, Spanish and Italian: The Several Parts Designed to Serve as Mutual Keys. English TextD. Appleton and Company, 1875 |
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... wishes to express his particular wants and feelings , he in- stinctively repeats the expressions he has heard ; but mostly modifies them conformably to others which are familiar to him : he adapts to different words , the order , verbal ...
... wishes to express his particular wants and feelings , he in- stinctively repeats the expressions he has heard ; but mostly modifies them conformably to others which are familiar to him : he adapts to different words , the order , verbal ...
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... wishes to excel must have long confined himself to the imitation of good n : odels , and to the study of the great ... wish to submit its numberless forms to rules , as an assistance in speaking , these will be so multiplied , that it ...
... wishes to excel must have long confined himself to the imitation of good n : odels , and to the study of the great ... wish to submit its numberless forms to rules , as an assistance in speaking , these will be so multiplied , that it ...
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... wish to have a comprehensive view of the theory of a language . A few months of assiduous study of a good grammar , after sufficient practice in inferring the rules from the written page , would tend to generalize , connect , and ...
... wish to have a comprehensive view of the theory of a language . A few months of assiduous study of a good grammar , after sufficient practice in inferring the rules from the written page , would tend to generalize , connect , and ...
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... wish to indicate the progressive order which ought to be followed in the study . Nor do we mean that each of these branches should be learned separately , passing to the second only after thoroughly possessing the first , and so on in ...
... wish to indicate the progressive order which ought to be followed in the study . Nor do we mean that each of these branches should be learned separately , passing to the second only after thoroughly possessing the first , and so on in ...
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... wishes them to infer . But , to afford them early an opportunity of speaking Idiomatically , we would recommend that , in general , preference be given to the ex- pressions which differ in construction in the two languages , or which ...
... wishes them to infer . But , to afford them early an opportunity of speaking Idiomatically , we would recommend that , in general , preference be given to the ex- pressions which differ in construction in the two languages , or which ...
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