Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from First Year Latin Texts and Methods in America; Their History and Status: Thesis
One of the first headsmasters of the boston.latin School was Ezekiel Cheever who held that position for nearly forty years. He influenced more perhaps than any other one man, the manner of pre senting elementary Latin as practiced down at least to the time of the Revolution. He found the accidence in Lily's Grammar not alear and accurate enough for his use, so he compiled and pmblished one of his own, which remained in use in some schools as late as 1800. This little book was in its ninth edition in 1766, fifty-eight years after the authors death ahd its title was as follows.
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