An Oral System Of Teaching Living Languages: Illustrated By A Practical Course Of Lessons, In The French, Through The Medium Of The English (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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It would be unfair, however, to censure with too great rigour the early teachers who contrived the first Anglo - French Grammars; we should not forget that they were the pioneers of the profession. We ought to hear in mind that it is the lot of human nature to submit to the ordeal of experience, and that it is mostly to the errors and failures of our predece saore, that we are commody indebted for the many udvan tages which we actually possess.

N either should we be justified in supposing that success did not sometimes crown their professional labours; but, unfortunately for us, their modesty, as it appears, induced them to attributs such success to their written systems, rather than to their individual efforts, their active practical means; for the transmitted to us the for mer, while they neglected to make us acquainted with the latter.

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