Accedence commenc't grammar, supply'd with sufficient rules for the use of such (younger or elder) as are desirous, without more trouble than needs to attain the Latin tongue the elder sort especially, with little teaching and their own industry / by John Milton.

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Accedence commenc't grammar, supply'd with sufficient rules for the use of such (younger or elder) as are desirous, without more trouble than needs to attain the Latin tongue the elder sort especially, with little teaching and their own industry / by John Milton.
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Milton, John, 1608-1674.
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London :: Printed for S.S., and are to be sold by John Starkey ...,
1669.
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Latin language -- Grammar.
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"Accedence commenc't grammar, supply'd with sufficient rules for the use of such (younger or elder) as are desirous, without more trouble than needs to attain the Latin tongue the elder sort especially, with little teaching and their own industry / by John Milton." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A50880.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 31, 2024.

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Voices.

IN Verbs that betoken doing are two Voices, the Active and the Possive.

The Active signifieth to do, and always end∣eth in o, as Doceo, I teach.

The Passive signifieth what is done to one by ano∣ther, and always endeth in or, as Doceor I am taught.

From these are to be excepted two sorts of

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Verbs. The first are called Neuters, and cannot take or in the Passive, as Curro I run, Sodeo I sit; yet signifie somtimes passively, as Vapulo I am beaten.

The second are call'd Deponents, and signifie actively, as Loquor I speak; or Neuters, as Glo∣rior I boast: but are form'd like Passives.

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