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A Grammar of the Greek Language. E-book. Formato PDF Georg Curtius - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
The fact that within a few years the present Grammar has found its way into a large number of schools in various countries of Europe seems to be a satisfactory answer to the question whether a thorough knowledge of Greek is attainable by the method I have adopted. Much, therefore, of what I thought it necessary to state on the first appearance of the book does not now re quire to be repeated; but I consider it incumbent upon me to make some observations upon the objects and the use of the Grammar, and I beg to recommend these to the careful consideration of teachers. Few sciences have within the last half century been so completely reformed as the science of language. Not only has our insight into the nature and history of human speech been greatly advanced, but — and this is justly regarded as a matter of still greater importance quite a different method in treating language in general has been discovered, after a new era had been opened up by the philosophical inquiries of William von Humboldt, and the historical investigations of Francis Bopp and Jacob Grimm. No one, unless he desires to exclude schools from the progress thus made, and to confine them to the mechanical repetition of imper feet and antiquated rules, will probably doubt that the new knowledge, the principles of which have stood the test of nearly half a century, ought to exercise its in~ ?uence on the teaching of language.
The Greek Verb: Its Structure and Development. E-book. Formato PDF Georg Curtius - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
The following work is a translation of 'Das Verbum der Griechischen Sprache seinem Baue nach dargestellt, published in two volumes (Vol. I. Leipzig 1873, Vol. II. ib. 1876). For the first volume we were able to use the second edition (Leipzig 1877): for the second volume Prof. Curtius was good enough to furnish us with a large number of corrections and additions, prepared by him for the second edition, now going through the press. Professor Curtius desires to express his indebtedness for some of these to notices by Prof. A. Nauck in the Bulletin de l'Academic imperiale des sciences de St. Petersbourg Tome xx. pp. 481-520 and in the Melanges Greco-Bomains Tome iv, p. 58 ff. We cannot reproduce this acknowledgment without, expressing our great regret that Prof. Nauck should have thought St to adopt in these articles a tone and language which, it might have been hoped, belonged entirely to a past generation of scholars. We have added from the second edition an important excursus as an appendix.In the preface to Vol. I., Prof. Curtius writes: I was first led to make the Greek verb the subject of a detailed examination -in the following way. My work Die Bildung der Tempora und Modi im Griechischen und Lateinischen, which appeared in the year 1846, had been for some time out of print. The progress made by the science since that time would at least have necessitated very considerable changes in a new edition. Besides this I hardly felt called upon to make a fresh examination of the structure of the Latin verb.