AN INTRODUCTION TO THE WRITING OF GREEK, IN TWO PARTS: FOR THE USE OF WINCHESTER COLLEGE, W.B BY GEORGE ISAAC HUNTINGFORD, D.D. WARDEN OF WINCHESTER COLLEGE, AND BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER. OXFORD: At the UNIVERSITY PRESS, for T. CADELL and W, DAVIES, PREFACE. TH 'HE design of this Introduction is to facilitate Greek Compofition. EXERCISES of this fort are found ufeful to thofe, who learn the LATIN Language: perhaps too they may be ferviceable to those, who study the GREEK; and may gradually make the one as familiar to young Scholars as the other. The plan pursued in this Introduction is as follows. First, the Prepofitions (which occafion many difficulties to learners) are exemplified, that the force and proper use of them may in fome measure be ascertained and understood; but more particularly, that the de.clenfions of Nouns may be thoroughly acquired. Some few Adverbs are subjoined to the Prepofitions, for the fame purposes. The Verbs B Verbs are placed next; in order that the Formation of the Tenfes, and the Signs of each Tenfe, may be perfectly learned. Laft of all comes the Syntax, which is made as comprehenfive, and yet as concife as poffible. The Authors quoted are the best, and pureft, equally admirable for Style and Matter. As this is the first work of its kind, that has hitherto appeared, fome indulgence is due to its imperfections. It pretends to no greater merit, than that of laying a foundation for farther improvement; and of affifting in first principles thofe, who wish to read with accuracy, or write with propriety, a Language, of all others the most elegant, expreffive, copious, and perfect, PRE PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. THE HE favourable reception, which has already been given to Two Editions of this Work, has been deemed fufficient encouragement for the publication of a Third. And that this Third Edition may be more perfect and complete than the former two, the following improvements have been made in it: 1. The Prepofitions, in their fimple fignifications, are more fully, and clearly explained. 2. Verbs more eafy of formation are inferted. And as these Verbs are cited in the very Tenfes and Signs, though not always number and perfon, in which they are used by the Writers themselves, from whom they are taken, their Claffical Authority will be unquestionable. |