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Excerpt from Elements of the Greek Language: Exhibited, for the Most Part, in New Rules, Made Easy to the Memory by Their Brevity; Being a Translation of Dr. Moor's Celebrated Greek Grammar
Among the various Compends Of Greek Grammar now be fore the public, that-of diff'm00r deservedly occupies a very high rank. The simplicity Of his manner, the accuracy-of his Observations, and the admirable precision and system that runs through the whole, render his work far superior to most Of others as a manual Of Elementary instruction in the Greek language. Yet, with all its excellencies, it was, as first pub lisboa, still defective in many parts. This was to be expected in a work which its Author did not live to complete. In the late editions by Professors Dunbar Of Edinburgh and N eilson of Belfast many Of_ these defects have been supplied. The late voluminous and valuable works Of Matthias, Buttman, and Thiersch, in which they have embodied the result Of philologi cal researches up to the present time, have contributed greatly to advance the interests Of Grecian literature. These added to the valuable works Of Middleton, Vigerus, Bos, Hoogeven, and others in different departments of this subject, furnish the stu dent with all the information requisite to conduct him to a tho rough and critical acquaintance with the Greek language. These works, however, are within the reach Of'comparativelv few. They were neither designed for, nor are they suited to, the wants Of the junior student 5 and will hardly ever be known or consulted except by the advanced scholar. Still, however, the benefit of labours so well directed and successful, ought not to be confined to so narrow a circle 5 and to bring their results more fully than has yet been done before the student in a'xcon densed and systematic form, 18 an Object which has been stea dily kept in View in the present work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
