A Greek Grammar for the Use of High Schools and Universities (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Greek Grammar for the Use of High Schools and UniversitiesBut the great labour of his life lies before the world in his grammati cal works, which, from a narrow beginning, have grown up into a wide and comprehensive system. His first work appeared, as mentioned above, in 1792, and was little more than an outline of the Greek acci dence. In the subsequent editions he continued to interweave the results of his investigations, until the fourth ed itiou assumed the character of a more complete and scientific treatise of Greek grammar. In this form it remained without any essential change of plan, but not without impor tant additions and improvements, until the publication of the twelfth edition in 1826. In the mean time he had published at an early period an abstract of this work, made from the sixth edition, for the use of lower schools and younger pupils, under the title of sow-granada. This smaller Grammar reached its eighth editition in 1826, during the author's life-time, and the ninth edition of it was issued in 1831, since his de cease. This is the work formerly translated and published in this coun try, under the name of Buttmann's Grammar, of which it is not too much to say, that it disappointed the expectations of our more advanced scholars by its incompleteness and want of detail, while it was found not to answer among us the purposes of early instruction, because it already presupposes a certain amount of elementary philological knowledge on the part of the pupil. The truth is, that the work was adapted to amodo of instruction entirely different from that prevalent in this country, and was intended rather as a manual to guide the oral instructions and explanations of school-teachers in Germany, than as a book from which the pupil should himselfiderive an acquaintance with the elements of Greek grammar.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.