Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 142William Blackwood, 1887 - England |
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Page 69
... German , one permanent object to be aimed at all through is to enable him to understand English more perfectly , and to use it with greater accuracy and freedom . The knowledge and the use of the new language being learnt must be dove ...
... German , one permanent object to be aimed at all through is to enable him to understand English more perfectly , and to use it with greater accuracy and freedom . The knowledge and the use of the new language being learnt must be dove ...
Page 73
... German or French through Latin and Greek . a great extent this is perfectly true . German especially , which is an inflected language , can be taught upon rigorously scientific principles , and might be made almost , if not quite , as ...
... German or French through Latin and Greek . a great extent this is perfectly true . German especially , which is an inflected language , can be taught upon rigorously scientific principles , and might be made almost , if not quite , as ...
Page 74
... German author may often be translated into English almost as they stand , because all modern thought runs more or less in similar grooves ; but in Greek or Latin the thought is cast in moulds so different that it must be taken to pieces ...
... German author may often be translated into English almost as they stand , because all modern thought runs more or less in similar grooves ; but in Greek or Latin the thought is cast in moulds so different that it must be taken to pieces ...
Page 93
... German War . Then all respect for French military institutions passed away , and boundless admiration of those of Prussia took its place . This change of opinion on our part was natural enough ; and had there been at the War Office a ...
... German War . Then all respect for French military institutions passed away , and boundless admiration of those of Prussia took its place . This change of opinion on our part was natural enough ; and had there been at the War Office a ...
Page 94
... German empire , with its forty - seven millions of people , spends , in ordinary times , twenty - one millions annually on army and navy purposes . In re- turn for this outlay , it can bring into the field a million and a half of armed ...
... German empire , with its forty - seven millions of people , spends , in ordinary times , twenty - one millions annually on army and navy purposes . In re- turn for this outlay , it can bring into the field a million and a half of armed ...
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