A COMPLETE LATIN COURSE FOR THE FIRST YEAR, COMPRISING AN OUTLINE OF LATIN GRAMMAR, AND A SERIES OF AT SIGHT. BY ALBERT HARKNESS, PH.D., LL.D., PROFESSOR IN BROWN UNIVERSITY. NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 1, 3, AND 5 BOND STREET. 1888. HARVARD 047*174 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1883, by ALBERT HARKNESS, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. PREFACE. THE Volume now offered to the public is intended to furnish the pupil a complete course for his first year in the study of Latin. It conducts the beginner through the common forms and inflections of the language, introduces him to the leading principles of its syntax, and aims to prepare him to enter with success upon the consecutive study of Caesar or of any of the less difficult Latin authors. It comprises an Outline of Latin Grammar, Progressive Exercises in Reading and Writing Latin, eighteen pages of Connected Discourse from Caesar, Directions for Reading at Sight, Suggestions to the Learner, Notes, a Latin-English and an English-Latin Vocabulary. The Paradigms and Rules are introduced in the exact form and language of the author's Grammar. Thus the great objection to many First Latin Books, that they fill the memory of the pupil with forms of statement that must be laid aside as soon as he passes to his Grammar, is entirely obviated in this volume. The Latin Exercises are taken chiefly from Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War. They are made so strictly progressive, that the learner will find it perfectly easy, in the latter part of the volume, to make the transition from classified sentences to connected discourse. The |