Latin Synonyms 1839

Latin Synonyms 1839

Author: Lewis Ramshorn (trans. Francis Lieber)

Year: 1839

Please download and store this to preserve it for posterity. Latin Synonyms by Lewis Ramshorn (trans. from the German by Francis Lieber), 1839. This is a “school edition” of Ramshorn's more comprehensive work. It is OCR'd and fully searchable. As Francis Lieber writes in the Preface to his translation, "To my young readers, who will not fail to try their juvenile wit upon the author’s peculiar name, I wish to remark, that there are no better means of making ourselves perfectly acquainted with a foreign language, and acquiring a thorough knowledge of our own, than a careful study of those clusters of words by which a number of related ideas, a family of notions, is successfully expressed, in a foreign tongue, yet differently from the mode which our own idiom pursues ; in the same manner as there is no better way of discerning and thoroughly understanding our own advantages or deficiencies, individual or national, than by a candid comparison of ourselves with others, be this by traveling into other regions and nations of our own times, or into other ages by studying history."