Grammar Sentence Examples
There are a grammar school, a free school and a number of charities.
The grammar school was founded in 1618.
Of grammar she knew nothing and she cared nothing for it.
I really believe he knows more Latin and Greek Grammar than Cicero or Homer ever dreamed of!
The grammar school dates from 1499, but occupies modern buildings.
There are also numerous grammar schools and other private schools.
He taught me Latin grammar principally; but he often helped me in arithmetic, which I found as troublesome as it was uninteresting.
On the 18th of July 1542 it was surrendered to Henry VIII., and its possessions granted to Robert Dacres on condition of maintaining the grammar school and paying the master £10 a year, the same salary as the headmasters of Winchester and Eton, and maintaining the almshouse.
According to Shafi`ite law, such a cadi must be a male, free, adult Moslem, intelligent, of unassailed character, able to see, hear and write, learned in the Koran, the traditions, the Agreement, the differences of the legal schools, acquainted with Arabic grammar and the exegesis of the Koran.
The public buildings include the town-hall (dating from 1762 and altered in 1876), the tolbooth (1590), and the grammar school.
AdvertisementTo the north of the village, which has extended greatly as a residential suburb of the metropolis, is Mill Hill, with a Roman Catholic Missionary College, opened in 1871, with branches at Rosendaal, Holland and Brixen, Austria, and a preparatory school at Freshfield near Liverpool; and a large grammar school founded by Nonconformists in 1807.
Chesterfield grammar school was founded in 1574.
The unknown author, as may be inferred from the treatise itself, did not write to make money, but to oblige his relative and friend Herennius, for whose instruction he promises to supply other works on grammar, military matters and political administration.
The Westminster Greek Grammar presented Latin verses to Queen Elizabeth.
He was educated at Oakham grammar school, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, taking the degree of M.A., and entering holy orders in 1835.
AdvertisementHe wrote on grammar (Sepher ha-galui and Sepher Zikkaron), commentaries on Proverbs and the Song of Solomon, an apologetic work, Sepher ha-berith, and a translation of Balhya's Ilobhoth ha-lebhabhoth.
At Ferrara he spent the last thirty years of his long life (1370-1460), producing textbooks of Greek and Latin grammar, and translations from Strabo and Plutarch.
He was educated at Norwich grammar school.
At the grammar school of Stratford-on-Avon, about 1671-1677, Shakespeare presumably studied Terence, Horace, Ovid and the Bucolics of Baptista Mantuanus (1502).
About the same time he also wrote his Anaq, a poem on grammar, of which only 97 lines out of 400 are preserved.
AdvertisementHis Shakespearian Grammar (1870) is a permanent contribution to English philology.
More weighty contributions are the anonymous theological discussion The Kernel and the Husk (1886), Philomythus (1891), his book on Cardinal Newman as an Anglican (1892), and his article "The Gospels" in the ninth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, embodying a critical view which caused considerable stir in the English theological world; he also wrote St Thomas of Canterbury, his Death and Miracles (1898), Johannine V ocabulary (1905), Johannine Grammar (1906).
He was also author of a once popular Hebrew grammar in two volumes (1862-1863).
There are a grammar school, founded in 1554, and a technical school.
He became usher of a grammar school in Leicestershire; he resided as a.
AdvertisementThe name was soon discovered; and Pope, with great kindness, exerted himself to obtain an academical degree and the mastership of a grammar school for the poor young poet.
He received an excellent education, especially in grammar and rhetoric, but confesses that his progress in Greek was unsatisfactory.
It supplied them with an incentive to scientific research in archaeology and grammar; it penetrated jurisprudence until the belief in the ultimate identity of the jus gentium with the law of nature modified the praetor's edicts for centuries.
Along with grammar, which had been a prominent branch of study under Chrysippus, philosophy, history, geography, chronology and kindred subjects came to be recognized as fields of activity no less than philology proper.
The foundation was on the model of Merton and Queen's colleges at Oxford, to which grammar schools were attached by their founders, while fellows of Merton were the first wardens of both of Wykeham's colleges.
Philosophy, grammar, the history and theory of language, rhetoric, law, arithmetic, astronomy, geometry, mensuration, agriculture, naval tactics, were all represented.
He was educated at Midhurst grammar school and at the Royal College of Science, where he was trained in physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology and biology.
He composed, it is said, nearly 500 treatises on various subjects, including logic, ethics and grammar.
His works, which include a grammar of the Bohemian language and a history of Bohemian literature, were mostly written in German or Latin, and his only Bohemian works are some essays which he contributed to the early numbers of the Casopis Musea Krdlovstvi Ceskeho (Journal of the Bohemian Museum) and a collection of letters.
William was educated at Oakham and Newark grammar schools, and in 1714 he was articled to Mr Kirke, attorney at East Markham, in Nottinghamshire.
After attending King Edward VI.'s grammar school, Birmingham, he studied at Birmingham hospital, and afterwards at King's College, London, with the intention of making medicine his profession; but after taking his degree at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1843 he changed his mind.
At the grammar school, which formerly occupied a building in those gardens, Dr John Wolcot, otherwise known as Peter Pindar, was educated.
During his school days at the grammar schools of Penzance and Truro he showed few signs of a taste for scientific pursuits or indeed of any special zeal for knowledge or of ability beyond a certain skill in making verse translations from the classics and in story-telling.
Other buildings are the town hall, and the modern buildings of the grammar school founded in 1561.
All children between the ages of 7 and 15 are required to attend school for the full school year, and those who at 15 years of age have not completed the grammar school course must continue to attend until they either complete it or arrive at the age of 17.
Portions of the abbey buildings, including the Lady chapel of the church, now converted into a dwelling-house, are incoporated in those of Sherborne grammar school, founded (although a school existed previously) by Edward VI.
The printing of Greek began at Milan with the Greek grammar of Constantine Lascaris (1476).
Karl Pearson (The Grammar of Science, 1892, 2nd enlarged ed., 1900), starting from Hume's phenomenal idealism, has developed views closely allied to Mach's universal physical phenomenology.
Phillips Academy, opened in 1778 (incorporated in 1780), was the first incorporated academy of the state; it was founded through the efforts of Samuel Phillips (1752-1802, president of the Massachusetts senate in 1785-1787 and in 1788-1801, and lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts in 1801-1802), by his father, Samuel Phillips (1715-1790), and his uncle, John Phillips (1719-1795), "for the purpose of instructing youth, not only in English and Latin grammar, writing, arithmetic and those sciences wherein they are commonly taught, but more especially to learn them the great end and real business of living."
He also wrote a Hebrew and an Aramaic grammar.
Furthermore, children past 15 years of age who have completed the grammar school .course but are not regularly and lawfully employed at some useful occupation must attend a high school or a manual training school until 17 years of age.
There are, besides, the Edward Latymer foundation school for boys (1624), part of the income of which is devoted to general charitable purposes; the Godolphin school, founded in the 16th century and remodelled as a grammar school in 1861; Nazareth House of Little Sisters of the Poor, the Convent of the Sacred Heart, and other convents.
In 1856 he became master of King Edward's grammar school at Lichfield, in 1858 warden and professor of classical literature and geology in Queen's College, Birmingham, in 1862 rector of Mellis, in Suffolk, and in 1867 vicar of St John's, Bethnal Green, London.
By his editio princeps of the Samaritan Pentateuch and Targum, in the Paris Polyglott, he gave the first impulse in Europe to the study of this dialect, which he acquired without a teacher (framing a grammar for himself) by the study of MSS.
Wherever the grammar of a sentence was destroyed by the omission, some conjectural emendation of the injured text was made to restore sense.
He was educated at the Malmesbury grammar school under Robert Latimer, who had numbered Thomas Hobbes among his earlier pupils, and at his schoolmaster's house Aubrey first met the philosopher about whom he was to leave so many curious and interesting details.
He tried to find his own way in Greek literature, to which German schools then gave little attention; but, as he had not mastered the grammar, he soon found this a sore task and took up Arabic. He was very poor, having almost nothing beyond his allowance, which for the five years was only two hundred thalers.
Other buildings of interest are the guildhall, a 15th-century structure of brick; Shodfriars Hall, a half-timbered house adjacent to slight remains of a Dominican priory; the free grammar school, founded in 1554, with a fine gateway of wrought iron of the 17th century brought from St Botolph's church; and the Hussey Tower of brick, part of a mansion of the 16th century.
The College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, was situated here from 1747 to 1756, for all but the first few months under the presidency of the Rev. Aaron Burr, who published in 1752 the well-known Newark Grammar, long used in Princeton and originally prepared for Burr's very successful boys' school in Newark.
In the dull round of instruction in "grammar" he did not distinguish himself, and was surpassed by his early friend and companion, William Herman, who was Winckel's favourite pupil.
About the middle of the same century grammar had a far abler exponent at Rome in the person of Aelius Donatus, the preceptor of St Jerome, as well as the author of a text-book that remained in use throughout the middle ages.
It was there that he began his Latin Grammar, his Glossary (the earliest Latin-English dictionary in existence), and his Colloquium, in which Latin is taught in a conversational manner.
His knowledge of Greek, as shown in his Greek Grammar (first published in 1902), was clearly derived from the Greeks of his own day.
When Latin grammar has been mastered, he bids the teacher lead his pupil " into the sweet fountain and spring of all Arts and Science," that is, Greek learning which is " as profitable for the understanding as the Latin tongue for speaking."
Latin was, above all, to be learned through use, with as little grammar as possible, but with the reading of easy Latin texts, and with no repetition, no composition.
In November 1903 a syndicate was of Grant (1575) was succeeded by that of Camden (1 595), founded mainly on a Paduan text-book, and apparently adopted in 1596 by Sir Henry Savile at Eton, where it long remained in use as the Eton Greek Grammar, while at Westminster itself it was superseded by that of Busby (1663).
In the second half of the 17th century the rules of grammar and rhetoric were simplified, and the time withdrawn from the practice of composition (especially verse composition) transferred to the explanation and the study of authors.
A greater originality in the method of teaching the ancient languages was exemplified by Fenelon, whose views were partially reflected by the Abbe Fleury, who also desired the simplification of grammar, the diminution of composition, and even the suppression of Latin verse.
During more than forty years of academic activity he not only provided manuals of Latin and Greek grammar and many other text-books that long remained in use, but he also formed for Germany a welltrained class of learned teachers, who extended his influence throughout the land.
The Latin grammar in use was that of the Jesuit rector of the school at Lisbon, Alvarez (1572).
Agnes, Cambs., but the greater part of his life was given up to teaching, as headmaster of Helston grammar school from 18J5 to 1859 and of King Edward VI.
Jewish teacher about 1492, published a work entitled De Rudimentis Hebraicis containing a Hebrew lexicon and a Hebrew grammar.
A chapel, dedicated to St Thomas of Canterbury, is used as a grammar school.
There are also many connexions with Dr Johnson, a frequent visitor here to his friend Dr Taylor, who occupied a house opposite the grammar school.
Bernard Gilpin, "the Apostle of the North," was rector of this parish from 1556 to 1583, and the founder of the grammar school.
The first college in Mexico was founded', during the administration of Viceroy Mendoza (1535-1550), but it taught very little beyond Latin, rhetoric, grammar and theology.
Kay's free grammar school was founded in 1726; there are also municipal technical schools.
In 1520 he published his Greek Grammar.
New Hampshire formed a part of Massachusetts when, in 1647, the General Court of that province passed the famous act requiring every town in which there were fifty householders to maintain a school for teaching reading and writing, and every town in which there were one hundred householders to maintain a grammar school with an instructor capable of preparing young men for college.
Among educational institutions, the grammar school existed in the 16th century, and in 1663 received a charter of incorporation from Charles II.
He took much interest in the educational affairs of the province, and in 1807 was instrumental in having provision made for the establishment of the first grammar schools.
The town has a grammar school, founded before the reign of Henry VIII., but reorganized in 1885.
In all races there has been since 1890, throughout the country, a large increase in the proportion of girls among the pupils of each age-group; and this is particularly true of the group of 15 years and upwardthat is of the grammar school and high school age, in which girls were in 1900 decidedly preponderant.
Farnham has a town hall and exchange in Italian style (1866), a grammar school of early foundation, and a school of science and art.
It was certainly by Aristotle, because it contained the triple grammatical division of words into noun, verb and conjunction, which the history of grammar recognized as his discovery.
Here Aristotle, starting from the previous grammar of sentences in general, proceeded, for the first time in philosophical literature, to disengage the logic of the proposition, or that sentence which can alone be true or false, whereby it alone enters into reasoning.
Aristotle, who made this great discovery, must have had great difficulty in developing the new investigation of reasoning processes out of dialectic, rhetoric, poetics, grammar, metaphysics, mathematics, physics and ethics; and in disengaging it from other kinds of learning.
The neighbouring building of the grammar school preserves a Norman door from another church, which formerly stood in the same churchyard with St Peter's.
The institutions include a museum of local antiquities, a grammar school, the Siemens Convalescent Home and the Ilkley Bath Charitable Institution.
Shepton possesses a grammar school of the 17th century, and a science and art school.
The grammar school was founded in 1486.
In addition to the usual high and grammar schools, the city itself supports a city training school for teachers, and a system of night schools and kindergartens.
It possesses a town hall, a grammar school (1576), and a Martyr's Memorial HallThe most noteworthy building, however, is the parish church, restored in 1863, which contains a curious old fresco and several interesting brasses, and has a Norman tower.
His views on the function of grammar were summarized in a paper on The Spiritual Rights of Minute Research delivered at Bryn Mawr on the 16th of June 1895.
They furnish a good manual and technical training to Hawaiian boys and girls, in addition to a primary and grammar school course of study, and exert a strong religious influence.
A free grammar school was founded in the reign of Edward VI., and an English free school for the instruction of forty boys and thirty girls by Richard Smith in 1712.
We have here, in this sceptical idealism, the source of the characteristically English form of idealism still to be read in the writings of Mill and Spencer, and still the starting-point of more recent works, such as Pearson's Grammar of Science and James's Principles of Psychology.
The rudiments of Latin he obtained at the grammar school of Montrose, after leaving which he learned Greek for two years under Pierre de Marsilliers, a Frenchman whom John Erskine of Dun had induced to settle at Montrose; and such was Melville's proficiency that on going to the university of St Andrews he excited the astonishment of the professors by using the Greek text of Aristotle, which no one else there understood.
The town has long been an important military centre with a large permanent camp. There are a free grammar school (founded 1 539), a technical and university extension college, a literary institute and medical and other societies.
He studied grammar and rhetoric at Rome and philosophy at Athens, after which he returned to Rome, where he held a judicial office.
It is compiled out of an Adversaria, or commonplace book, in which he had jotted down everything of unusual interest that he heard in conversation or read in books, and it comprises notes on grammar, geometry, philosophy, history and almost every other branch of knowledge.
His Tibetan-English Dictionary, and pioneer Tibetan Grammar, both published in 1834, opened to Europeans the way to acquire a knowledge of the Tibetan language as found in the ancient classics.
Hodgson, and grammatical notices of Tibetan (according to Csoma's grammar).
In 1868 at Kyelang he published by lithography A Short Practical Grammar of the Tibetan Language, with special reference to the spoken dialects, and the following year a Romanized Tibetan and English Dictionary.
Wenzel, one of his pupils, edited in 1883 from his MS. a Simplified Tibetan Grammar.
As regards native philology, the most ancient work extant is a grammar of the Tibetan tongue preserved in the Bstan-hgyur (mdo cxxiv.).
A good deal of new research on the grammar is to be found in Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India, part III., 1908.
Foucaux, in his Grammaire (1858), quoted a fragment from a native work on grammar several centuries old, in which the pronunciation of the supposed silent letters is carefully described.
Subsequently he held the mastership of the grammar school at Southampton, and in 1582 was professor of divinity and minister of the reformed church at Leiden.
At the age of fourteen he went into his father's printing office, but continued to attend the grammar school in the afternoons.
Besides the regular elementary schools there are the Perth Academy (1807) with which was subsequently amalgamated the Burgh Grammar.
Cavan has no buildings of antiquarian interest, but the principal county institutions are here, and the most conspicuous building is the grammar school, founded by Charles I.
The grammar school was founded in 1487 by Sir Edmund Shaa or Shaw, lord mayor of London.
His commentaries on the Scriptures were the first application on an extensive scale of the principle affirmed by Scaliger, that, namely, of interpretation by the rules of grammar without dogmatic assumptions.
It has three Protestant churches, a grammar school and court of law.
Another work by him, Elements of English Grammar, was published in 1801.
Among several educational institutions, the free grammar school dates from 1665; and a philosophical society was founded in 1828.
There are a picturesque town hall (1641), raised on stone columns, and a free grammar school.
He received the best education to be had at the time, and was noted for his proficiency in the arts of grammar, rhetoric and dialectic. Entering on a public career he held, about 573, the high office of prefect of the city of Rome; but about 574, feeling irresistibly attracted to the "religious" life, he resigned his post, founded six monasteries in Sicily and one in Rome, and in the last - the famous monastery of St Andrew - became himself a monk.
See especially his Sumerian grammar in this latter work, pp. 133-147.
His father, Daniel Doddridge, was a London merchant, and his mother the orphan daughter of the Rev. John Bauman, a Lutheran clergyman who had fled from Prague to escape religious persecution, and had held for some time the mastership of the grammar school at Kingston-upon-Thames.
He afterwards went to a private school in London, and in 1712 to the grammar school at Kingston-upon-Thames.
Educational establishments include an Elizabethan grammar school, a training college for schoolmistresses (British and Foreign School Society), and a technical school.
He was acquainted moreover with Latin grammar, under the influence of which he resorted to the innovation of dividing the Hebrew vowels into five long vowels and five short, previous grammarians having simply spoken of seven vowels without distinction of quantity.
Moses Kimhi was the author of a Hebrew grammar, known - after the first three words - as Mahalak Shebile Ha-daat, or briefly as Mahalak.
In the grammar he combined the paradigmatic method of his brother Moses with the procedure of the older scholars who devoted a close attention to details.
The grammar school was enlarged and endowed in 1686 by Sarah, dowager duchess of Somerset.
The free grammar school, originally founded in 1502 by Sir John Percival, was refounded in 1552 by Edward VI., and a commercial school was erected in 1840 out of its funds.
There is a free grammar school founded in 1637.
Only two of his works have been printed, his Erotemata (published at Venice in 1484), which was the first Greek grammar in use in the West, and Epistolae III.
Besides numerous board schools, the educational establishments include the John Neilson Endowed Institute (1852) on Oakshaw Hill, the grammar school (founded, 1576; rebuilt, 1864), and the academy for secondary education, and the technical college, in George Street.
David Hughes, of Jesus College, Oxford, founded the free grammar school in 1603.
In 1638 he was nominated to the mastership of the free grammar school, Dudley, in which place he commenced his ministry, having been ordained and licensed by John Thornborough, bishop of Worcester.
The conversation ranges from the dishes before the guests to literary matters of every description, including points of grammar and criticism; and they are expected to bring with them extracts from the poets, which are read aloud and discussed at table.
In 1541 he was appointed professor of Latin grammar at Wittenberg, and in 1557 professor of the Old Testament.
From Suetonius (De grammaticis, 23) we learn that he was originally a slave who obtained his freedom and taught grammar at Rome.
He borrowed a grammar and other books,.
He was educated at Durham grammar school and at Merton College, Oxford, where he was elected to a postmastership in 1862.
He was sent to New College school in 1641, and at the age of twelve was removed to the free grammar school at Thame, where his studies were interrupted by civil war skirmishes.
Education is provided by a grammar school, a large day school for girls, and technical and art schools.
In 1880 Ludwig Stern (Koptische Grammatik) admirably classified the grammatical forms of Coptic. The much more difficult task of recovering the grammar of Egyptian has occupied thirty years of special study by Adolf Erman and his school at Berlin, and has now reached an advanced stage.
Owing to the very imperfect notation of sound in the writing, the highly important subject, of the verbal roots and verbal forms was perhaps the obscurest branch of Egyptian grammar when Sethe first attacked it in 1895.
The Berlin school, having settled the main lines of the grammar, next turned its attention to lexicography.
It is only by the most careful scrutiny, or the exercise of the most piercing insight, that the imperfectly spelled Egyptian has been made to yield up one grammatical secret after another in the light brought to bear upon it from Coptic. Demotic grammar ought soon to be thoroughly comprehensible in its forms, and the study of Late Egyptian should not stand far behind that of demotic. On the other hand, Middle Egyptian, and still mote Old Egyptian, which is separated from Middle Egyptian by a wide gap, will perhaps always be to us little more than consonantal skeletons, the flesh and blood of their vocalization being for the most part irretrievably lost.
It will serve to contrast with Coptic grammar on the one hand and Semitic grammar on the other.
The beginner takes first a course in the grammar of classical Arabic, for he has hitherto learned only to read, write and count.
The rules of grammar are read out in the memorial verses of the Ajrumiya, and the teacher adds an exposition, generally read from a printed commentary.
The grammar school, founded in the reign of John, was incorporated by Edward I.
One mass of Greek and Roman erudition, including history and metaphysics, law and science, civic institutions and the art of war, mythology and magistracies, metrical systems and oratory, agriculture and astronomy, domestic manners and religious rites, grammar and philology, biography and numismatics, formed the miscellaneous subject-matter of this so-styled rhetoric. Notes taken at these lectures supplied young scholars with hints for further exploration; and a certain tradition of treating antique authors for the display of general learning, as well as for the elucidation of their texts, came into vogue, which has determined the method of scholarship for the last three centuries in Europe.
N.E., the grammar school founded in 1599 now ranks as one of the minor English public schools.
The Elizabethan grammar school, founded in 1592, is the principal educational establishment.
Some careful reading of good books there must have been, however, for in spite of pervading illiteracy, common in that age, in matters of grammar and spelling, he acquired a dignified and effective English style..
The grammar school (1632) was reconstituted in 1889 for boys and girls.
The Grammar School, founded in 1263, was removed in 1861-1863 from its old quarters in Schoolhill to a large new building, in the Scots Baronial style, off Skene Street.
The grammar school was founded in 1610.
It consists of small squares and narrow streets, with a free grammar school (1665), market hall, assize hall, county gaol, &c. The so-called parliament house (1404) of Owen Glendower's members has been demolished.
After having acquired the rudiments of education at two small schools in hamlets close to Woolsthorpe, Newton was sent at the age of twelve to the grammar school of Grantham.
At the age of ten he was sent to the grammar school of the Quartier St Antoine, the Lycee Charlemagne.
In 1845 the boy, who had been a "herd" on the farm, went for six months to the grammar school at Aberdeen and was there prepared for a university bursary, which was sufficient to pay his fees, but no more.
He understood it to be the first duty of an exegete to ascertain the meaning of the writer, and he showed that this could be done by the use of grammar and history and the historical imagination.
His Introductory Hebrew Grammar has been widely adopted as a class-book in theological colleges.
This last-named building was erected in 1879 to replace the old and famous grammar school, where John Knox, William Dunbar, John Major and possibly George Buchanan and Sir David Lindsay were educated.
Samuel Smiles (1812-1904), author of Character, Self-Help and other works, was also born there, and Edward Irving was for years mathematical master in the grammar school.
In calling them Aryas we predicate nothing of them except that the grammar of their language is Aryan" (p. 245).
To me an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar."
While apprenticed to a cabinet-maker he picked up a Chinese grammar written in Latin, and after mastering the latter tongue made such good progress with the former, that in 1846 James Legge engaged him to superintend the London Missionary Society's press at Shanghai.
There is a grammar school founded in 1652, and in the neighbourhood is the Methodist foundation of Bourne College (1883).
His father, John Martyn, was a "captain" or mine-agent at Gwennap. The lad was educated at Truro grammar school under Dr Cardew, entered St John's College, Cambridge, in the autumn of 1797, and was senior wrangler and first Smith's prizeman in 1801.
There is an endowed grammar school founded by Edward VI., and a bluecoat or hospital school.
We owe to him, too, some manuals used in his educational work; a grammar and works on rhetoric and dialectics.
The public buildings and institutions include a guildhall (1826), a free grammar school and a large market-place.
The poet John Gay was born in the vicinity, and received his education at the grammar school, which at an earlier period had numbered Bishop Jewel among its pupils.
In 1833 he completed his translation of the Bible; in succeeding years he compiled a Burmese grammar, a Burmese dictionary, and a Pali dictionary.
Indeed, it is in Snorri's Edda, a poetic grammar of a very perfect kind, that the best examples of the whole of northern poetry are to be found.
He was educated at Norwich grammar school and at Caius College, Cambridge, where he was scholar and afterwards fellow.
His earliest studies in grammar, rhetoric and the Latin language were conducted at Padua, where he acquired so great a reputation for learning that in 1417 he was invited to teach eloquence and moral philosophy at Venice.
Besides collecting national songs and poems, folk-lore, proverbs, &c., he wrote a grammar of the Servian language (Vienna, 1814) and the first Servian lexicon, with explanations in German and Latin (Vienna, 1818).
He had a very distinguished pupil in Stoyan Novakovich, who wrote numerous studies on philological subjects, and whose Servian grammar is still the standard book in all Servian schools.
This work in twenty-one books (KaOoXLKit 7rpocrcp5La) included also an account of the etymological part of grammar.
The grammar school, founded in 1495 under the charity of Thomas Burton, occupies modern buildings in pleasant grounds.
There is also a girls' grammar school partly dependent on the same foundation.
He was not a diligent scholar, but at the grammar school of Hull his skill in elocution attracted the attention of the master.
A journey to Nice in the autumn of the same year with his friend Dr Isaac Milner (1750-1820), who had been a master at Hull grammar school when Wilberforce was there as a boy, and had since made a reputation as a mathematician, and afterwards became president of Queens' College, Cambridge, and dean of Carlisle, led to his conversion to Evangelical Christianity and the adoption of more serious views of life.
Continuing his studies in the science of language, he published his Philological Grammar in 1854, drawing examples from more than sixty languages.
During his tenure of office he delivered a course of lectures on grammar, which has come down to us in the shape of notes taken by his pupils.
This still barely civilized German literally went to school to the English Alcuin and to Peter of Pisa, who, between two campaigns, taught him history, writing, grammar and astronomy, satisfying also his interest in sacred music, literature (religious literature especially),and the traditions of Rome and Constantinople.
His communications to the Academie des Inscriptions being coldly received and seldom accorded the honour of print, he inserted them in a vast compilation in 24 volumes, which he called Le Philologue, containing a mass of ill-digested notes on Greek grammar, geography, archaeology, and various authors.
There are, however, a few secular schools conducted by the government, and government-aided secondary schools for girls and a grammar school for boys.
He studied grammar under Callimachus at Alexandria, and philosophy under the Stoic Ariston and the Academic Arcesilaus at Athens.
The grammar school was founded in 1675.
From that work we learn that the higher education of the youth of Bagdad consisted principally in a minute and careful study of the rules and principles of grammar, and in their committing to memory the whole of the Koran, a treatise or two on philology and jurisprudence, and the choicest Arabian poetry.
His grammar school was housed in new buildings in 1871, and is a flourishing day school.
For the grammar school, founded c. 1S50 by the mayor and burgesses, a new building was erected in 1883.
Highgate grammar school was founded (1562-1565) by Sir Roger Cholmley, chief-justice.
The grammar school was founded in 1683, and a Blue Coat School in 1723.
In 1870 he put forth his Grammar of Assent, the most closely reasoned of his works, in which the case for religious belief is maintained by arguments differing somewhat from those commonly used by Roman Catholic theologians; and in 1877, in the republication of his Anglican works, he added to the two volumes containing his defence of the via media a long preface and numerous notes in which he criticized and replied to sundry anti-Catholic arguments of his own in the original issues.
Having studied grammar under Orion and philosophy under Olympiodorus the Peripatetic, at Alexandria, he proceeded to Athens.
He saw that the second part of Isaiah differs from the first not only in style but in date; that the grammar and the history of the Pentateuch are posterior to the time of Moses; that the book of Daniel is clearly apocryphal.
Among the principal buildings are the church of St Mary, a Decorated and Perpendicular structure, with lofty tower and spire; the Roman Catholic academy named St Peter's Priory, and a grammar school.
There are within the duchy four grammar schools (gymnasia), five semi-classical and modern schools, a teachers' seminary and four high-grade girls' schools.
Among educational foundations are Canterbury College (for classics, science, engineering, &c.), Christ's College (mainly theological) and grammar school, and a school of art.
Other buildings include an Elizabethan town hall, the grammar school, founded by Abbot Lichfield, and the picturesque almonry.
He did not know what grammar was, or the difference between a noun adjective and a noun substantive.
Speakers of English were asked to judge theambiguity of the grammar.
It features the largest and most complete English-Polish dictionary, thesaurus, and expanded grammar reference section.
He was presented with a silver casket on a visit to his old school, King Edward VI Grammar School.
Students have a Grammar Reference in the virtual classroom, which can help them to carry out these tasks.
Founded in 1913 as a girls ' grammar school, it became a mixed comprehensive in 1972.
Polish teacher is responsible for teaching grammar while native speaker works on students ' speaking skills, teaching mainly conversational language and vocabulary.
Talk to Me uses a purely conversational method, Tell Me More includes also grammar, written exercises, pronunciation and more.
The pack aims to enable children to learn how language works to increase their range of writing, make grammar enjoyable and foster creativity.
These dictionaries include complete verb conjugation and grammar (agreements in gender and number of nouns and adjectives, german declensions ).
Under these conditions debate sometimes degenerated into quibbles over points of Portuguese grammar.
Working out a full grammar of mediation is an important scholarly desideratum, but it's beyond the scope of this module.
Grammar schools are hugely socially divisive, she said.
This research-led ' modern ' grammar is very different from the rather dogmatic ' traditional ' grammar of the early 20th century.
The Lower Grammar boys share rooms within a larger dormitory.
Simon H. Fell studied double bass under Peter Leah at Batley Grammar School and Huddersfield Polytechnic.
For Aquinas also timeless eternity constituted part of the ' grammar ' of talking about God.
In the grammar explanations which follow each dialog, examples are taken from the dialog out of context.
Depending on the grammar formalism used, varying degrees of compression are achieved.
Obviously I went to little school then I went on to Aylesbury Grammar School, and there acting was slightly frowned upon.
The package includes a grammar reference section and bilingual glossary.
This sample also leaned toward allowing a native English teacher to teach grammar.
If you decided to learn it, you would have to devote years of your life to practicing the grammar and vocabulary.
We start our game with our basic transformational circus grammar by placing a chair in the real space.
The findings also seem to suggest more confidence that a native English speaker can teach this form of pedagogic grammar.
Typed feature structure grammars include construction grammar (CG ), head-driven phrase structure grammar (HPSG) and some versions of categorial grammar.
My schoolboy Latin grammar hasn't been a great help with this, I fear.
Now one might reasonably ask what Sanskrit grammar has to do with mathematics.
His work applies the discourse grammar approach of Robert Longacre to Joshua.
Sanskrit has a perfect grammar which has been explained to us by the world's greatest grammarian Panini.
It was also wealth from the woolen cloth trade that resulted in the foundation of the town's grammar school.
Grammar School's gym officially opened Kirkwall Grammar School's state-of-the-art gym was officially opened on Thursday by Councilor Janice Annal.
During the years of World War 1 the former headmaster of Henry VIII Grammar School was Vicar.
What I find very helpful is the middle section which has about 30 pages of notes on grammar.
Charles Clarke's words appear to represent a revival of the government's hostility to grammar schools.
It all looks so splendid, and the authors assume that the spell check and the grammar check will make things immaculate.
It is fair to say that Portuguese grammar is more complex than English, mainly due to verb inflection.
It includes a survey of grammar, with tables for verb conjugations and noun inflections.
Does intensive explicit grammar instruction make all the difference?
Note the way that decimal and octal integers are read in by grammar rules.
Then I gave them some handouts I had prepared so that they could practice the written form of new lexis and grammar.
Bryson highlights the lunacy of applying Latin grammar to a Germanic language and the smug, slimy pedants it has given us.
When the grammar lessons were becoming too monotonous I would retreat to the questions and unknowns of global politics.
This method uses morphemes - the smallest meaningful unit in the grammar of a language to teach spelling of English words.
This volume is intended as a foundational text for second language grammar pedagogy courses at the advanced undergraduate and master's levels.
You will have to produce four or five written assignments during the course which will include a test of grammar and/or phonology.
It is the church that is associated with elitist grammar schools and the socially privileged.
There are certain peculiarities in the spelling and grammar that perhaps reflects the pronunciation of Hebrew at the time when the manuscripts were copied.
Interestingly they found that students seemed to ignore punctuation, spelling and grammar.
Go to bookshop Grammar and punctuation for School £ 2.50 Handy reference book that lists the most useful basic punctuation and grammar rules.
In the Grammar, Newman makes his case for a radically new understanding of human reason, rejecting both Cartesian rationalism and Lockean empiricism.
During that year he acquired the rudiments of Latin grammar.
Or, to be more precise, education for boys in a grammar school.
We have corrected some spelling, punctuation, grammar.
Growing ability to use past and future tenses and all parts of grammar.
At the simplest level, it's amazing how jarring a slow typist, or bad grammar can be.
Watt had a rather similar Calvinist upbringing leavened with attendance at the grammar school in Greenock.
The incident outside the Grammar School on Priory Road where a 45 year old woman was making her way home.
Whatever may be the truth about these stories, Heraclides seems to have been a versatile and prolific writer on philosophy, mathematics, music, grammar, physics, history and rhetoric. Many of the works attributed to him, however, are probably by one or more persons of the same name.
Educational establishments include a free grammar school, in modern buildings, founded in 1525 and well endowed; a blue-coat school, science and art school, and green-coat Sunday school (1813).
After attending classes in the Dundee grammar school and in the high school and university of Edinburgh in 1780, he joined H.M.S.
The grammar school was founded in 161x.
The word is used literally in biology; and metaphorically in prosody or grammar for a verse or sentence with a beginning wanting.
His principal works are translations of Strabo and of some of the Lives of Plutarch, a compendium of the Greek grammar of Chrysoloras, and a series of commentaries on Persius, Juvenal, Martial and on some of the writings of Aristotle and Cicero.
In the native schools - almost all maintained by Christian missions - Zulu and English are taught, the subjects taken being usually reading, writing, arithmetic, grammar, geography and history.
The free grammar school, refounded bý Edward IV., was rebuilt in 1677, and again in 1867.
It is only possible to allude briefly here to the different conclusions that he has attained in treating the various problems, as for example in Aesthetic, the unity of art and language, of intuition and expression, the negation of particular arts, the refutation of literary and artistic classes, the criticism of rhetoric, of grammar and so forth; and in the Philosophy of the Practical or of Practice, the conciliation of the antitheses of utilitarianism and moralism, the critique of precepts, of laws and of casuistry, the new conception of judgments of value, the constitution of a philosophic economy side by side with the science of Economy, the resolution of the Philosophy of rights in the Philosophy of economic, and so forth.
In Lepsius's grammar the verbal paradigm fills altogether I Io pages.
Grammar, logic, rhetoric and poetry are discussed in books ii.
They included Memoirs of the civil wars after the death of Caesar, used by Suetonius and Plutarch; bucolic poems in Greek; translations of Greek speeches; occasional satirical and erotic verses; essays on the minutiae of grammar.
Abbott's laborious From Letter to Spirit (1903), Joannine Vocabulary (1904) and Grammar (1906) overflow with statistical details and ever acute, often fanciful, conjecture.
The Institutiones grammaticae is a systematic exposition of Latin grammar, dedicated to Julian, consul and patrician, whom some have identified with the author of a well-known epitome of Justinian's Novellae, but the lawyer appears to be somewhat later than Priscian.
The grammar of the Stoics, gradually elaborated by Zeno, Cleanthes and Chrysippus, supplied a terminology which, in words such as " genitive," " accusative " and " aorist," has become a permanent part of the grammarian's vocabulary; and the study of this grammar found its earliest home in Pergamum.
The 2nd century is the age of the two great grammarians, Apollonius Dyscolus (the founder of scientific grammar and the creator of the study of Greek syntax) and his son Herodian, the larger part of whose principal work dealt with the subject of Greek accentuation.
This is taken verbatim from Lilye's contribution to the Brevis Institutio, originally composed by Colet, Erasmus and Lilye for St Paul's School (1527), and ultimately adopted as the Eton Latin Grammar.
The first Latin grammar written in French was that of Pere de Condren of the Oratoire (c. 1642), which was followed by the Port-Royal Mdthode latine of Claude Lancelot (1644), and by the grammar composed by Bossuet for the dauphin, and also used by Fenelon for the instruction of the duc de Bourgogne.
All kinds of devices were suggested for expediting the acquisition of Latin; grammar was to be set aside; Latin was to be learned as a " living language "; much attention was to be devoted to acquiring an extensive vocabulary; and, " to save time," composition was to be abolished.
This collection also contains other works of the same kind, dictionaries by later writers, translations of many Sanskrit works on grammar, vocabulary, &c., and bilingual dictionaries, Sanskrit and Tibetan.
Jonah (Abulwalid), which was cast in a similar bipartite form; and it was chiefly due to I imhi's grammar and lexicon that, while the contents of Abulwalid's works were common knowledge, they themselves remained in oblivion for centuries.
At this point a papyrus of stories written in the popular language of the Middle Kingdom provided Erman with a stepping-stone from Old Egyptian to the Late Egyptian of the Neuagyptische Grammatik, and gave the connections that would bind solidly together the whole structtire of Egyptian grammar (see Sprache des Papyrus Westcar, 1889).
After attending the grammar school at Lancaster he spent six years as an apprentice to a druggist in that town.
Torrend, Comparative Grammar of the South African Bantu Languages (p. Ioi) renders it " Lord of the water-elephants," and remarks that the hippopotamus is even to the present day a sacred animal among the Karanga.
It is supposed that the aisle, with Decorated window and groined roof, south of the chancel, formed the grammar school (removed from the abbey in 1751) in which Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661), principal of St Mary's College, St Andrews, and James Thomson, author of The Seasons, were educated.
He had also caused to be compiled a history of Walachia, and had called to the country many teachers of the Greek language, whose business it was to instruct the sons of the boiars in grammar, rhetoric and philosophy.
A large free grammar school, founded in 1515 by Sir Stephen Jermyns, a native of the town and alderman of London, occupies modern buildings (1876).
At first I was rather unwilling to study Latin grammar.
I was familiar with the story of Troy before I read it in the original, and consequently I had little difficulty in making the Greek words surrender their treasures after I had passed the borderland of grammar.
Just think, I shall soon finish my grammar!
She got the language from the language itself, and this is, next to hearing the language spoken, the way for any one to get a foreign tongue, more vital and, in the end, easier than our schoolroom method of beginning with the grammar.
Go to bookshop Grammar and Punctuation for School £ 2.50 Handy reference book that lists the most useful basic punctuation and grammar rules.
From 1563 to 1870 the Roysse Room was the schoolroom of the old grammar school.
The college was to consist of a provost, io priests, 6 choristers, 25 poor and needy scholars, 25 almsmen and a magister infor mator "to teach gratis the scholars and all others coming from any part of England to learn grammar."
Allhallows Grammar School, founded in 1614, was enlarged in 1893; St Margaret's hospital, founded as a lazar-house in the 14th century, is converted into almshouses.
Grammar and prosody were studied in India with a marvellous accuracy and minuteness several centuries before Christ.
Robert was sent to Liskeard grammar school, and when he was about sixteen was apprenticed to a solicitor.
He was soon removed to Cheltenham grammar school, and in April 1823 matriculated at Pembroke College, Oxford.
The Knaresborough free grammar school was founded in 1616.
There are a grammar school (1712), and boys' school and free school on the foundation of Sir John Leman (1631).
The chief buildings are that containing the town hall and the grammar school (a foundation of 1547), the exchange, a theatre, and the customs house and dock offices.
His father, Nathaniel, though a barber, was a man of some education, for Jeremy was "solely grounded in grammar and mathematics" by him.
Jeremy Taylor was a pupil of Thomas Lovering, at the newly founded Perse grammar school.
He wrote also Elements de metaphysique (1724), a "French Grammar on a new plan," and a number of historical essays.
Occasionally grammar schools have agricultural sides, and in evening continuation schools agricultural classes are sometimes held.
A free grammar school, founded in 1591, was refounded by James I.
His education was undertaken by his uncle, John de Willoughby, and after leaving the grammar school of his native place he was sent to Oxford, where he is said to have distinguished himself in philosophy and theology.
A 14th-century grammar school was refounded by Queen Elizabeth; and there are two mansions dating from the same reign, which have been converted into inns.
The Heath grammar school was founded in 1585 under royal charter for instruction in classical languages.
Charles, however, has given good grounds for supposing that it is merely a preface, and that the work went on to discuss grammar, logic (which Bacon thought of little service, as reasoning was innate), mathematics, general physics, metaphysics and moral philosophy.
First appears to have come the treatise now called Compendium Studii Philosophiae (Brewer pp. 393-519), containing an account of the causes of error, and then entering at length upon grammar.
Educated at Marylebone grammar school and at Eton College, he proceeded to King's College, Cambridge, and was elected a fellow of this society in 1768.
Three years after the death of Mrs Priestley in 1739, Joseph's father's sister, Mrs Keighley, took him to live with her, and sent him at the age of twelve to a neighbouring grammar school.
The grammar school founded in 1418 by Sir William Sevenoke was reconstituted as a first-grade modern school in 1877.
Taiping (Perak, 1894-1898); John Crawfurd, History of the Indian Archipelago (3 vols., Edinburgh, 1820); Grammar and Dictionary of the Malay Language (2 vols., London, 1852); A Descriptive Dictionary of the Indian Islands and Adjacent Countries (London, 1856); Journal of the Indian Archipelago (12 vols., Singapore, 1847-1862); Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 33 Nos.
While still young he became a monk, and studied grammar and theology first at Exeter, then at Nutcell near Winchester, under the abbot Winberht.
Here he consulted Isabella Roser, a lady of high rank and piety, and also the master of a grammar school.
Bartole, the official biographer of Ignatius, says that he would not permit any innovation in the studies; and that, were he to live five hundred years, he would always repeat "no novelties" in theology, in philosophy or in logic - not even in grammar.
He was educated at the free grammar school of his native town, and in 1631 was nominated to the Lynn scholarship in Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A.
The principal other buildings are the court house, government buildings (formerly a Jesuit monastery), episcopal palace, grammar school (once attended by Erasmus), a prison, hospitals, arsenal and barracks.
He was educated at Dedham grammar school and at Cambridge, and in 1868 became professor of engineering at Owens College, Manchester, holding that post for nearly 40 years.
A grammar school of ancient foundation, renewed by Elizabeth and George III., occupies modern buildings.
In private service superior posts were often filled by freedmen; the higher arts - as medicine, grammar, painting - were partly in the hands of freedmen and even of ingenui; the more successful actors and gladiators were often freedmen.
The first class comprises works on grammar, one on natural phenomena, and two on chronology and the calendar.
Here the young Marsilio received his elementary education in grammar and Latin literature at the high school or studio pubblico.
Schoppe, as the long list -of his writings shows, knew also something of grammar and philosophy, and had an excellent acquaintance with Latin.
Born on the 18th of February 1718 he was educated at the parish school of St Ninians, and at the grammar school of Stirling, and, after completing his course at Edinburgh University, became master of the grammar school at Annan.
The "Cleveland plan," in force in the public schools, minimizes school routine, red tape and frequent examinations, puts great stress on domestic and manual training courses, and makes promotion in the grammar schools depend on the general knowledge and development of the pupil, as estimated by a teacher who is supposed to make a careful study of the individual.
In 1909 there were 8 high schools and 90 grammar schools in the city; more than $2,500,000 is annually expended by Cleveland on its public schools.
He was educated at the grammar school of his native town, and at the university of Edinburgh, where he graduated M.A.
He was educated at the Wigton grammar school, and about 1754 went to Virginia, where he became a private tutor in the families of Virginia planters.
A grammar school, founded 1554, occupied part of the Priory, but was removed in 1874 to new buildings.
The grammar school was founded by Sir Norton Knatchbull in the reign of Charles I.
The grammar school was founded in 1553 and reorganized in 1862.
Demetrius Chalcondyles published the editio princeps of Homer, Isocrates, and Suidas, and a Greek grammar (Erotemata) in the form of question and answer.
Since then, says their regretful pupil, " less time and less care have been bestowed on grammar, and persons who profess all arts, liberal and mechanical, are ignorant of the primary art, without which a man proceeds in vain to the rest.
The first Hungarian grammar known is the Grammatica HungaroLatina of John Erdosi alias Sylvester Pannonius, printed at SarvarUjsziget in 1539.
Besides theology he was interested in the study of grammar and natural history, but his name is chiefly associated with nautical science.
Among institutions may be mentioned the grammar school, founded in 1674, the public library and museum, and a number of hospitals and sanatoria.
He wrote various philosophical works, also a treatise on grammar which is quoted by the later grammarian, John bar Zo`bi.
His Latin Grammar and Glossary 2 were written for his pupils after the two books of homilies.
At a somewhat earlier period the grammar school, now extinct, was of such repute as to be chosen as the model for the constitution of the school of St Paul's.
Other institutions include a grammar school founded in the middle of the 16th century and provided for by a charter of Edward VI., the Cambridgeshire hospital, a custom-house, a cattle-market, and an important corn-exchange, for Wisbech has a large trade in grain.
He also introduced innovations in orthography and grammar.
A free grammar school was founded about 1614.
In early times the priories and other religious houses had generally grammar schools attached to them.
No Polish grammar worthy of the name appeared till that of Kopczynski at the close of the 18th century, but the reproach has been taken away in modern times by the excellent works by Malecki and Malinowski.
An elaborate history of Polish literature has been written by Anton Malecki, who is the author of the best Polish grammar (Gramatyka historyczno-porownawcza jezyka polskiego, 2 vols., Lemberg, 1879).
He was an active visitor of Eton and Winchester, and endowed the grammar school at Reading, where he was himself educated.
The Hartford grammar school, founded in 1638, long managed by the town and in 1847 merged with the classical department of the Hartford public high school, is the oldest educational institution in the state.
Two critical editions of the Iliad and Odyssey were produced by his successor, Aristarchus, who was librarian until 1 4 6 B.C. and was the founder of scientific scholarship. His distinguished pupil, Dionysius Thrax (born c. 166 B.C.), drew up a Greek grammar which continued in use for more than thirteen centuries.
From about 168 B.C. the head of the Pergamene school was Crates of Mallus, who (like the Stoics) was an adherent of the principle of " anomaly " in grammar, and was thus opposed to Aristarchus of Alexandria, the champion of " analogy."
At the grammar school, founded in the reign of Henry VIII., but occupying modern buildings, Eugene Aram was usher.
It has one of the finest race-courses in Australia, and in the King's School, founded in 1832, the oldest grammar school in the colony.
He was educated at the grammar school of Irvine, the university of Glasgow, and the East India Company's College at Haileybury.
From the grammar school of Norwich he passed to Trinity College, Cambridge; and in 1572 he entered Lincoln's Inn.
There is an Elizabethan grammar school.
The grammar school was in existence as early as 1553.
Educational institutions include an Elizabethan grammar school and a blue-coat school; and there is a local museum.
The chief buildings are the Carmelite Priory (ruins dating perhaps from the 13th century); a Bluecoat school (1514); a free grammar school (1527); an orphan girl school (funds left by Thomas Howel to the Drapers' Co., in Henry VII.'s reign); the town hall (built in 1572 by Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, enlarged and restored in 1780); an unfinished church (begun by Leicester); a market hall (with arcades or "rows," such as those of Chester or Yarmouth); and the old parish church of St Marcella.
For an attempt to treat the whole problem of differential fertility and assortative mating numerically, see Pearson, The Grammar of Science, 2nd edition, London, 1900.
At Lafayette he introduced the first carefully scientific study of English in any American college, and in 1870 published A Comparative Grammar of the AngloSaxon Language, in which its Forms are Illustrated by Those of the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Gothic, Old Saxon, Old Friesic, Old Norse and Old High German, and An Anglo-Saxon Reader; he was editor of the "Douglass Series of Christian Greek and Latin Classics," to which he contributed Latin Hymns (1874); he was chairman of the Commission of the State of Pennsylvania on Amended Orthography; and was consulting editor of the Standard Dictionary, and in 1879-1882 was director of the American readers for the Philological Society's (New Oxford) Dictionary.
The principal buildings are the church of St Hilda, with a picturesque old tower; the town hall in the market-place, exchange, customhouse, mercantile marine offices, public library and museum, grammar school, marine school, master-mariners' asylum and seamen's institute.
Other noteworthy buildings are a grammar school, founded by John Bentley in 1660, and the town-hall.
After attending the grammar schools of Melton and Oakham, he entered St John's College, Cambridge, and while still an undergraduate he addressed in February 1712, under the pseudonym of Peter de Quir, a letter to the Spectator displaying no small wit and humour.
After graduating B.A., he became assistant and then headmaster of the grammar school of his native town, uniting to these duties those of assistant curate.
His abundant energy found still further expression in a poem entitled Esther, Queen of Persia (1714), and in the compilation of a grammar of ten languages entitled The Complete Linguist (2 vols., London, 1719-1721).
He had no teacher and no grammar; but Paulus Scriptoris carried him a huge codex of the prophets on his own shoulders all the way from Mainz.
He learned the letters from the transcription of a few verses in the Star of the Messiah of Petrus Niger, and, with a subsequent hint or two from Reuchlin, who also lent him the grammar of Moses Kimhi, made his way through the Bible for himself with the help of Jerome's Latin.
He got on so well that he was not only a useful helper to Reuchlin but anticipated the manuals of the great Hebraist by composing in 1501 the first Hebrew grammar in the European tongue.
Unlike Gottfried Hermann, Heyne regarded the study of grammar and language only as the means to an end, not as the chief object of philology.
At the grammar school of Stuttgart, where Hegel was educated between the ages of seven and eighteen, he was not remarkable.
The free grammar school, founded by Edward VI., has two scholarships at Cambridge, and six exhibitions to each university, and occupies modern buildings.
The literary works of Averroes include treatises on jurisprudence, grammar, astronomy, medicine and philosophy.
District, grammar and classical schools, a free state library and a state college, were all included in his plan.
The grammar school, founded by Edward VI.
The sophistical movement was then, primarily, an attempt to provide a general or liberal education which should supplement the customary instruction in reading, writing, gymnastic and music. But, as the sophists of the first period chose for their instruments grammar, style, literature and oratory, while those of the second and third developments were professed rhetoricians, sophistry exercised an important influence upon literature.
As instruments of education Protagoras used grammar, style, poetry and oratory.
The sophist of whom the Platonic Protagoras is here thinking was Hippias of Elis, who gave popular lectures, not only upon the four subjects just mentioned, but also upon grammar, mythology, family history, archaeology, Homerology and the education of youth.
The first name is that of Theagenes of Rhegium, contemporary of Cambyses (525 B.C.), who is said to have founded the " new grammar " (the older " grammar " being the art of reading and writing), and to have been the inventor of the allegorical interpretations by which it was sought to reconcile the Homeric mythology with the morality and speculative ideas of the 6th century B.C. The same attitude in the " ancient quarrel of poetry and philosophy " was soon afterwards taken by Anaxagoras; and after him by his pupil Metrodorus of Lampsacus, who explained away all the gods, and even the heroes, as elementary substances and forces (Agamemnon as the upper air, &c.).
It is characteristic of early literature that the evolution of the thought - that is, the grammatical form of the sentence - is guided by the structure of the verse; and the correspondence which consequently obtains between the rhythm and the grammar - the thought being given out in lengths, as it were, and these again divided by tolerably uniform pauses - produces a swift flowing movement, such as is rarely found when the periods have been constructed without direct reference to the metre.
Blundell's grammar school, founded under the will of Peter Blundell, a rich cloth merchant, in 1604, has modern buildings outside the town in Tudor style; and, among others, scholarships at Balliol College, Oxford, and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
The grammar school, founded in 1503, occupies an Elizabethan building; there are also a college of divinity, a blue-coat school, and a literary institute with library and school of art.
After the usual education of a boy in grammar and elementary classical studies, his father, Piero, sent him to the universities of Ferrara and Padua, where he stayed until the year 1505.
The large grammar school is a foundation of 1541.
Before you submit your order, Coddan will review the answers you provide on the questionnaire for consistency, completeness, spelling and grammar.
King was paid the endowment for 5 years until 1587 when Anthony Gate succeeded him as schoolmaster of the grammar school.
For seminary students, the goal of studying Greek grammar is the accurate exegesis of biblical texts.
For the word " number " here shews what place in language, in grammar, we assign to the word.
At the simplest level, it 's amazing how jarring a slow typist, or bad grammar can be.
The Natural Language Understanding component using typed unification grammar (Regulus) is linked to a commercial speaker-independent speech recognition system (Nuance).
She may be delayed in acquiring the vocabulary, syntax, grammar and pragmatics of her age mates.
Dylan's been working really hard to improve his orthography and grammar for English class.
Kids can also look up parts of speech to learn grammar.
Learning a foreign language's grammar can help you construct sentences and easily formulate proper nouns and verbs, so you can communicate with other German speakers.
Plus you get unique search tools and a grammar and style guide.
Middle school (also known in some places as junior high or intermediate school) is the step in education between elementary or grammar school and high school (secondary school).
Before mailing your application, check for spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors.
Against a hot wall, where nothing else would grow, Dr Acland, of the Grammar School, Colchester, planted some, and they gave a beautiful bloom.
You'd be surprised how many people will pass you by simply because you didn't take the time to check your grammar.
This game seems like it was pitched by some grammar school girl who happens to have a Daddy that works for Square.
The LearnSpanish app allows you to overcome language barriers by offering quick access to Spanish vocabulary and grammar information.
Improve your grammar and vocabulary skills with this application.
Children with Asperger's syndrome generally have a normal to above average intelligence level and adequate knowledge of vocabulary and grammar but poor concentration and ability to understand language subtleties, such as humor.
Six-year-olds usually can correct their own grammar and mispronunciations.
Children with this type of learning disorder have problems with spelling, punctuation, grammar, and organizing their thoughts in writing.
From free grammar printables to field trips, the Internet provides almost everything you need.To use the Internet for homeschooling you will need to use Google, Yahoo, or another Internet search engine.
Teachers' Cafe has grammar games along with worksheets and lessons.
Children start off learning the basics in the first stage, the grammar stage.
Students do not simply learn grammar in this stage; rather, they learn the basics of what they need to know in order to later gain a deeper meaning in topics.
The grammar stage consists primarily of memorization in all subject areas, but it is a necessity.
Later in the grammar stage, the child can learn sight reading.
In the dialectic stage, homeschoolers take the knowledge that they gained in the grammar stage and analyze it.
When teaching voice, it is probably best not to focus on grammar and spelling mistakes, but simply to praise the child for sharing his viewpoint well.
Other assignments can be used to teach grammar or spelling elements.
Poetry can almost serve as a tool to develop a student's knowledge of history, grammar and English literature.
You also want to check for spelling or grammar errors.
Be sure that your responses are complete and that you use proper spelling and grammar throughout the form.
Proper grammar and punctuation will make your posts easier to read.
Finally, writing Santa letters is a great way to practice handwriting, grammar and the proper formats to use when writing and addressing correspondence.
Type quickly, but don't totally forget about grammar.
Continue improving your craft by paying close attention to the details that matter--punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
If you could use a refresher course on spelling, grammar, and punctuation, or you want to learn more about how to write in a particular genre, free e-courses can provide a good starting point for your studies.
For example, Web Grammar provides articles detailing common grammatical errors as well as a free e-mail newsletter for people interested in improving their writing skills.
Copy editors are those individuals charged with correcting spelling, grammar, punctuation, and matters relating to the publication's house style.
Larger companies that frequently employ technical writers may also have their own specific corporate style guides that address particular issues relating to word usage, grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
You may need a grammar checker when you start out as a writer, but the better you get at writing, the less useful a grammar checker becomes.
Start with the absolute basics if you already have a firm grasp of grammar and spelling.
Don’t worry about spelling, grammar, punctuation, or other minor errors at this point; the goal is to make sure your writing is succinct, interesting, and coherent.
When you’re ready to begin checking for typos, spelling, punctuation, and grammar mistakes, review your document one sentence at a time.
Poynter’s News University also has a self-directed course that covers basic mistakes in grammar, spelling, and style.
Most tweens and teens have mastered the basics of phonics and reading and are ready for more complex topics, such as sentence structure, grammar, and complex spelling.
Depending upon the type of puzzle you choose, puzzles can enhance reading comprehension, spelling, grammar, and math skills.
It's another site with information added by the general public, the reason behind several inaccuracies and grammar problems.
The exceptional nature of this event comes from the fact that Edgar had no medical training and only had a grammar school education, yet he diagnosed his medical condition and the correct medical cure while under hypnosis.
Grammar and spelling skills, although not particularly artistic in nature, are also necessary since they are often incorporated into tattoo designs.
Images must be proofed for color presentations, and text must be closely proofed for grammar, spelling and usage.
A professional ensures that proper grammar, spelling, punctuation and style create a polished image.
This is the time for impeccable grammar.
Check your grammar, spellcheck and make sure you don't lapse into informal texting or abbreviations when writing a formal document.
Misspelled words, typing errors and grammar mistakes distract from the effectiveness of your message.
Proofread it carefully, checking to be sure it is clear, complete, persuasive, and free from grammar and spelling mistakes.
This will help you obtain a firmer grasp of French grammar, and it will also improve your pronunciation.
Not only do they cover the basics of French words and phrases, but they also offer grammar that is conveniently divided into topics, for example vacations.
With that said, if your goal is to speak the language fluently, you cannot really get away from studying grammar.
Exposure to this kind of French is ideal for college students and adults who have already acquired an intermediate to advanced vocabulary and have mastered the grammar to a considerable degree.
French reflexive verbs are a difficult subject for French learners to master, but French grammar and reflexive verb exercises can help you to perfect this challenging aspect of the French language.
The reason French grammar and reflexive verb exercises are so difficult for native English speakers learning French is because the structure is very different in French and in English.
Students looking to perfect their usage of reflexive verbs can do so with online grammar tools that focus on reflexive verbs.
Sites such as Quia.com offer many grammar exercises, both for reflexive verbs and for every other aspect of French grammar you can imagine.
However, be careful with this as the grammar checker will miss some errors and will underline some phrases that are actually correct.
The only way to ensure a high-quality grammatical text is to check and re-check your grammar for consistency.
For grammar, try a site such as French Grammar Central, where you can look up any grammar issue you are unsure of while completing your translation.
This means that in addition to learning French vocabulary words and grammar rules, you should also try to listen to native French speakers talking.
While learning vocabulary and grammar rules are important, it is also important to be exposed to French pronunciation and hear the rhythm of the French language when it is spoken naturally.
Once you have learned a fair amount of vocabulary and grammar, it's a good idea to put it into practice with games, puzzles, or flash cards.
If a site asks you for personal information without detailing their policy types or has a lot of spelling and grammar errors, it's best to move on.
While not everyone has perfect grammar or web design skills, a site filled with spelling errors or broken code can create doubts about the professionalism of an operation.
Remember to proofread your wording for grammar and spelling before putting the invites in the mail.
After a lesson in proper diction, the men have to create original rap songs with proper grammar and no curse words.
I took the contract under my company’s name, and everywhere I went to recruit, I insisted on speaking at grammar schools.
Although you don't have to be a professional writer to have a successful blog, you should make an effort to use proper spelling, grammar and punctuation in your blog posts.
Watch your spelling and grammar because poor usage of the English language is not attractive for making a good first impression.
Misspelled words and improper grammar can be very difficult on the eyes.
Of Kirkby, from whom he learned the rudiments of English and Latin grammar, he speaks gratefully, and doubtless truly, so far as he could trust the impressions of childhood.
And in regard to Reid's favourite proof of the principles in question by reference to "the consent of ages and nations, of the learned and unlearned," it is only fair to observe that this argument assumes a much more scientific form in the Essays, where it is almost identified with an appeal to "the structure and grammar of all languages."
Secondary education is supplied by the grammar school, of which there is one in the capital of every vilayet.
Derenbourg, Paris, 1886) contains the grammar, the latter (ed.
Dionysius Thrax, the author of the first scientific Greek grammar, may also be mentioned.
He succeeded not only in raising the standard of education generally in the north of Scotland, but also in forming a school of philosophy and in widely influencing the teaching of English grammar and composition.
All these works, from the Higher English Grammar downwards, were written by Bain during his twenty years' professoriate at Aberdeen.
Secundus devoted much attention to the niceties of grammar and style, on which he was recognized as an.
Alleyne's grammar school is a foundation of 1558.
Of the education of Herodotus no more can be said than that it was thoroughly Greek, and embraced no doubt the three subjects essential to a Greek liberal education - grammar, gymnastic training and music. His studies would be regarded as completed when he attained the age of eighteen, and took rank among the eplzebi or eirenes of his native city.
He attended the grammar school of Bishop Auckland for a short time, but a large portion of his boyhood was spent in Westmorland.
In 1846 a grammar and dictionary of it were made with difficulty from the mouths of old people.
Sorn's Der Sprachgebrauch des Historikers Eutropius (1892) contains a systematic account of the grammar and style of the author.
Tregelles wrote Heads of Hebrew Grammar (1852), translated Gesenius's Hebrew Lexicon, and was the author of a little work on the Jansenists (1851) and of various works in exposition of his special eschatological views (Remarks on the Prophetic Visions of Daniel, 1852,1852, new ed., 1864).
After a brief stay in the grammar school of Colmar he went to Strassburg in 1651, where he devoted himself to the study of philology, history and philosophy, and won his degree of master (1653) by a disputation against the philosophy of Hobbes.
In 1839 he brought out his Greek Grammar, which had a great success.
In 1823 appeared his Elements of Anglo-Saxon Grammar.
The grammar school was founded in 1676.
In several burghs grammar schools have existed from a very early date, and some of them, such as the Royal High School of Edinburgh and the High School of Glasgow, reached a high standard of proficiency.
By the act of 1872 their management was transferred to the school boards, and they may be conveniently classified into higher-class public schools, such as the old grammar schools and the liberally endowed schools of the Merchant Company in Edinburgh, and higher grade schools, with a few years' preparatory course for the universities, while some of the ordinary schools have earned the grant for higher education.
For admission to the baccalaureate a preliminary test or " Responsions " was first required, at which the candidate had to dispute in grammar or logic with a master.
Thus isolated questions on details of grammar would disappear from papers on the mother-tongue and on foreign languages, in which the test would consist mainly or entirely of composition and translation.
There are an Elizabethan grammar school, in modern buildings (1884) and an excellent technical school.
The educational institutions include a free grammar school, founded by one of the Boteler family in 1526, and a blue-coat school (1665).
The first is an exposition of the advantages of a classical training, when it is not confined to mere grammar.
On the other hand one of his latest works, the Nubische Grammatik (1880), is an elaborate grammar of the then littleknown Nubian language, preceded by a linguistic sketch of the African continent.
He was educated at Llandudno grammar school and St.
When Protagoras included in his course grammar, style, interpretation of the poets, and oratory, supplementing his own continuous expositions by disputations in which he and his pupils took part, he showed a not inadequate appreciation of the requisites of a literary education; and it may be conjectured that his comprehensive programme, which Prodicus and others extended, had something to do with the development of that versatility which was the most notable element in the Athenian character.
Themselves of necessity stylists, because their professional success largely depended upon skilful and effective exposition, the sophists both of culture and of rhetoric were professedly teachers of the rules of grammar and the principles of written and spoken discourse.
Facing the South Common were the homes of Rev. Nathaniel Ward (1578-1652), principal author of the Massachusetts "Body of Liberties" (1641); the first code of laws in New England, and author of The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America, Willing to help mend his Native Country, lamentably tattered, both in the upper-Leather and the Sole (1647), published under the pseudonym, "Theodore de la Guard," one of the most curious and interesting books of the colonial period; of Richard Saltonstall (1610-1694), who wrote against the life tenure of magistrates, and although himself an Assistant espoused the more liberal principles of the Deputies; and of Ezekiel Cheever (1614-1708), a famous schoolmaster, who had charge of the grammar school in 1650-1660.
Among scholiasts may be mentioned the Scholiasta Bobiensis who is assigned to the 5th century, and a pseudo-Asconius, who wrote notes upon the Verrines dealing with points of grammar and rhetoric.
Educated at first by his mother, George Grote was sent to the Sevenoaks grammar school (1800-1804) and afterwards to Charterhouse (1804-1810), where he studied under Dr Raine in company with Connop Thirlwall, George and Horace Waddington and Henry Havelock.
The explanation is that outer speech is more obvious than inner thought, and that grammar and poetic criticism, rhetoric and dialectic preceded logic, and that out of those arts of language arose the science of reasoning.
All these points about speech, eloquence and argument between man and man were absorbed into Aristotle's theory of reasoning, and in particular the grammar of the sentence consisting of noun and verb caused the logic of the proposition consisting of subject and predicate.
He was educated at Highgate grammar school and Lincoln College, Oxford.
There are five other churches, a handsome town hall, an orphanasylum, several hospitals, a mechanics' institute, a famous grammar school (gymnasium), a normal and several other schools, and two public libraries.
After several years at sea and after trying various occupations on land, Paine took up his father's trade in London, where he supplemented his meagre grammar school education by attending science lectures.
Among educational institutions there are a large grammar school (1879), on a foundation of 173 Roman Catholic schools adjoining the cathedral, schools for engineering students and dockyard apprentices, and seamen and marines' orphan school.
He wrote a metrical handbook in four books, which has been incorporated by Marius Victorinus in his system of grammar.
These are distinguished by differences in grammar and phraseology rather than in alphabet.
Newport possesses a literary institute, and a free grammar school founded in 1665.