They comprised a little English, and a deal of Latin-names of things, declensions of articles and substantives, exercises thereon, and preliminary rules-a trifle of orthography, a glance at ancient history, a wink or two at modern ditto, a few tables, two or three weights and measures, and a little general information.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
His declensions, according to Dickens, were not likely to last out his journey from England to India.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
Her faculties were above the common, and her zeal could not be surpassed; so that, while I was stumbling and blundering over "Swaine's Sentences," she had read all Sallust's "Catiline," and most of the "Odes" of Horace; and long before I had mastered my German declensions, she was reading "Grimm's Stories" and Auerbach's "Village Sketches."
"That Boy Of Norcott's"
Charles James Lever