An introduction to the making of Latin : comprising, after an easy, compendious method, the substance of the Latin syntax : with proper English examples, most of them translations from the classic authors, in one column, and the Latin words in antoher : to which is subjoin'd, in the same method, a succinct account of the affairs of ancient Greece and Rome, intended at once to bring boys acquainted with history, and the idiom of the Latin tongue with rules for the gender of nouns
The sixteenth edition, revised and carefully corrected.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes in Pater-Noster-Row, and J. Hodges on London-Bridge,
Date of Publication
MDCCLII [1752]
Physical Description
xii, 297, [3] p. ; 17 cm. (12mo)
Notes
"A dissertation upon the usefulness of translations of classic authors, both literal and free, for the easy and expeditious attainment of the Latin tongue" (p. [277]-297) has special title page.
Signatures: A-N¹².
Bookseller's advertisement on last three pages.
Apparently from Jasper Yeates's personal libarary.
Yeates's signature at top of title page under that of John Yeates.
Printed for A. Millar, at Buchanan's Head in the Strand, London ; and A. Kincaid, and J. Bell, Edinburgh,
Date of Publication
MDCCLVIII [1758]
Physical Description
2 v. ; 21 cm (8vo)
Notes
Vol. I: xvi, 430 p.; v. II: 221, [1], 54 p.
"The discourses relate, each of them, to subjects common to the law of England and of Scotland"--Preface.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 672 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC
Contents
I. History of the criminal law -- II. History of promises and covenants -- III. History of property -- IV. History of securities upon land for payment of debt -- V. History of the privilege which an heir-apparent in a feudal holding has, to continue the possession of his ancestor -- VI. History of regalities, and of the privilege of repledging -- VII. History of courts -- V. 2, VIII. History of brieves -- IX. History of process in absence -- X. History of execution against movables and land for payment of debt -- XI. History of personal execution for payment of debt -- XII. History of execution for obtaining payment after the death of the debtor -- XIII. History of the limited and universal representation of heirs -- XIV. Old and new extent -- Appendix.