Articles From The Classical Teacher
Sayers
Omission 4
... The exercise had an English counterpart, which begain,
I think, for a change, "The woman runs". I do
not, by the way, altogether believe the report of a friend who in
later life assured me that the Latin grammar on which she had been
brought up contained the assertion, "The King's daughters wash the
sailor with their right hands". It certainly is not in Dr. William
Smith, all of whose examples were characterized by the strictest propriety
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