Excerpt from The Mastery Series: Latin 7, - Considering that sentences constitute language, speech is nothing more than the diversification of a stock of mastered sen tenoes. The process is very tedious in infancy; but when a child eight or ten years old is thrown entirely on its own resources, and has to pick up at haphazard, to discriminate, to interpret, to analyse, and to master a stock of useful sentences from amongst the rapid and puzzling utterances of foreigners, its profusion of idiomatic speech at the end of three months, is a marvel, the sources of which have been left too long unexplored. 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.