Methodi practicæ specimen An essay of a practical grammar; or An enquiry after a more easie and certain help to the construing and pearcing of authors; and to the making and speaking of Latin. Containing a sett of Latins answerable to the most fundamental rules of grammar, and delivered in an easie method for the first beginners to make Latin, at their entrance on the rules of construction. By Christopher Wase, M.A. teacher of the Free-School at Tunbridge in Kent.

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Methodi practicæ specimen An essay of a practical grammar; or An enquiry after a more easie and certain help to the construing and pearcing of authors; and to the making and speaking of Latin. Containing a sett of Latins answerable to the most fundamental rules of grammar, and delivered in an easie method for the first beginners to make Latin, at their entrance on the rules of construction. By Christopher Wase, M.A. teacher of the Free-School at Tunbridge in Kent.
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Wase, Christopher, 1625?-1690.
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London :: printed by A. Maxwell, and are to be sold by Samuel Gellibrand,
Febr. 11. 1667.
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"Methodi practicæ specimen An essay of a practical grammar; or An enquiry after a more easie and certain help to the construing and pearcing of authors; and to the making and speaking of Latin. Containing a sett of Latins answerable to the most fundamental rules of grammar, and delivered in an easie method for the first beginners to make Latin, at their entrance on the rules of construction. By Christopher Wase, M.A. teacher of the Free-School at Tunbridge in Kent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A65219.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 29, 2025.

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PRAXIS V. Conjunctions Copulative, joyn like Signes (where different are not exprest.) (Book 5)

OfNumber (in Verbs.)The HusbandmanSows or Reaps.
Tense.will Sow or Reap.
Mood.prepares to Sow or Reap.
Case.Inns a Crop of Wheat or Barley.
Gender.Plough; dry or Moorish Earth.
 likes themorelight and
Comparison.mostblack Mold.
 isto be loved and encouraged.
Participle.about to Sow or Reap.

Two Singulars conjoyned, govern a Plural.

Dolor & voluptas alternantur.

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Observ. In more terms than two heaped together, the for∣mer are put unconjoyned with a pause between, only the Con∣junction is exprest to the two last. Pistores, Lanii, Cetarii, & Popinones esculen ta vendunt. Tinctores, Carminato∣res, Netores, Textores, Fullones, Defloccatores, & Pan∣nitonsores pannum praeparant. In Rhetorical stile of Prose or Verse, sometimes all are conjoyned to cause deliberation, and to magnifie: In constantes homines & sperant, & timent, & optant, & fugiunt (called Polysyndeton.) Other times all are left loose to signifie expedition: Inconstantes sperant timent, optant, fugiunt, (called Asyndeton.)

Note secondly, Conjunctions couple like Cases.
Hora abitinterSpeculum&Pectinem.
Aetas defluitLudumSomnum.
Vita pendetSpemMetum.

Praepone animam, scilicet gemmam.

Postpone corpus, videlicet cistam.

Excole meliorem partem, h. e. mentem.

GemmaestVilior quàm sapientia.
BellumMitius quàm luxuria.
NemoBeatus nisi sapiens.

  • Parce tempori perinde ac thesauro:
  • Excute maerorem tanquam tineam animi.
  • Fuge desidiam velut lupum.
  • Omnia possunt eripi praeterquam dotes animi.
  • Homo pro factis reportat laetitiam vel moerorem.
  • Cessator consequitur nec honorem nec opes.
  • Pauper consultat, malit ne laborem an egestatem.

Some Conjunctions require a Subjunctive Mood, as Ut, uti, (that); Utinam, ne, quin; others ordinarily admit a Sub∣junctive, ni, si, nisi, quò, cùm.

Jubeo ut, uti facias officium.

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Utinamlegas! perlegas! discas! ediscas!
sedeas in loco tuo! loquaris, eloquaris!
exponas, examines, repetas lectionem tuam!
juves condiscipulos tuos!
facias officium, puer!

Si facias haec omnia, bene est; sin ludas, cesses, ridéac garias, grave imminet periculum.

Moneo ne ludas, cesses, exclames, lucteris, nugeris.

Non potes quin aliud agas?

Nisi facias officium, vapulabis.

Quod, Because.

TheFather rejoycesbecause theSon loves Vertue.
Master grievesScholar affects Idleness.
Physician mournsPatient despises Direction

Cumtinnunculus plangat, alaudae succumbunt.
catuli latrent, cervi fugiunt.
leo rugiat, ferae expavescunt.
gallus canat diluculum appropinquat.
When theTrumpet sounds, the Horse neighs.
Whale swims, the Sea boyls.
Swallows come, Summer approaches:
Flies depart, Cold hastens.

Observ. Conjunctive Sentences are also pricked in between the parts of the Principal Sentence.

Colligere solet medicus, dum ver praebet, rosas: Quas, ubi sol torruerit agros, frustra requirit aeger.

Quaerere debet puer, dum anni sinunt, literas: Quas, ubi curae domesticae circumsteterint, vir incassum defide∣rabit.

Omnia lege rotant, si coeli sydera spectes;

Seu terram spectes, omnia lege vigent.

Sive maris liquidos pinnato cum grege campo

Perspicias, certa nil nisi lege fluit.

Cum Sol abscedat, nudatur frondibus arbors

Cum Sol accedat, gramine terra viret.

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Lux parit alma diem, ne tempora pigra quiescant:

Neve cadant vires, nox tegit atra polum.

Ordine cuncta geruntur, & ordine cuncta reguntur,

Omnia lege fluunt: Nil sine lege ruit.

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