Cumulative Method for Learning German

Excerpt from Cumulative Method for Learning German: Adapted to Schools or Home Instruction The fact is, to these classics, so called, we owe our grammars for living languages; they have been scrupulously fitted and hammered over a very old last by scholastics and pedagogues, no doubt to revenge themselves upon later generations for having been themselves handled so unmercifully when young. Permit me once more to return to my musical simile. There are keyboards, having seven and a half to eight octaves, upon which the simpler instrumentations of a Clementi to the grand conceptions of a Chopin or a Liszt may be performed. Equal in compass are the keyboards of writers like Macauley, Carlyle, or a Byron, to whose wealth of words no emotion of the head and heart - from utter despair to infinite bliss -are left expressionless. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.