THE Second Edition differs from the former in containing a much greater number of passages for Translation: almost one half of the entire selection being new. An arrangement of the pieces according to their respective difficulty was attempted but abandoned for several reasons, partly because it was impossible to carry out such a plan satisfactorily, partly because the Book would have been so transformed as to render reference to it inconvenient for those Master of Schools and Tutors who have been accustomed to the use of the former Edition. SCHOOL HOUSE, IPSWICH Jan. 28, 1858 IN the Third Edition the numbers prefixed to the passages for Translation into Latin Prose correspond with those of the Second: the first number prefixed to the passages for Greek Prose corresponds with the 465th number of the Second: in order therefore to find the number in this Edition of a passage corresponding to a given passage in the Second, subtract 464 from the given number, and the remainder will be the number required. TABLE OF CONTENTS 70. Spiritual truths cannot be adequately expressed 71. Characteristics of true eloquence 72. Description, what constitutes its merit Letter from I. Casaubon to the President de Thou 83. The end of great but not good men 84. Travelling merchants in Gaul 85. The French under Louis VII. defeated by the Turks Colonisation as subservient to population 95. Character of M. Porcius Cato Simultaneous growth of the evil and its remedy The Massacre of St Bartholomew, A.D. 1572 |