By the same Author.

Preparing, and will soon be ready,

A BRIEF GREEK SYNTAX,

WITH HINTS ON THE ACCIDENCE.

THE peculiarity of this Syntax, which is intended mainly for the higher
classes of Schools, will be a constant reference to the general principles
of all language, and an illustration of Greek Idioms by comparing them
with those of various other languages.

ON

LANGUAGE.

Works by the same Author.

ERIC; or, Little by Little. A Tale of Roslyn School. Seventh

Edition.

2

JULIAN HOME. Third Edition, carefully revised.

3

ST. WINIFRED'S; or, The World of School. Second Edition.

4

An ESSAY on the ORIGIN of LANGUAGE, based on

Modern Researches. 8vo. 5s.

The uninitiated reader can, at the present time, find no better guide in the English language.' ATHENEUM.

'Mr. FARRAR has done what no one before him has attempted, and has filled up in a very masterly manner a place that had been too long vacant in the popular literature of science. . . . His book will be read with pleasure by those to whom the subject is wholly new, and will command the respect of proficients in philology. As a popular introduction to the science it is among the best books in any language, and is unique in our own.' SPECTATOR.

CHAPTERS

ON

LANGUAGE.

BY THE

REV. FREDERIC W. FARRAR, M.A.

LATE FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE;
HON. FELLOW OF KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON ;

AUTHOR OF THE ORIGIN OF
LANGUAGE' ETC.

Non excogitandum neque fingendum, sed inveniendum quid Natura faciat aut ferat. BACON.

Ἐγὼ μὲν οὖν περὶ τούτων ὡς εὗρον καὶ ἀνέγνων οὕτως ἔγραψα· εἰ δέ τις ἄλλως βουλήσεται δοξάζειν περὶ αὐτῶν, ἀνεγκλητὸν ἐχέτω τὴν ἑτερυγνωμοσύνην. JOSEPHUS, Antt. x. 11, 7.

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