Grandfather's Chair
Grandfather's Chair
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Do tell us a story aboutGRANDFATHER'S CHAIR!" APPENDIX TO PART I.
EXTRACTS FROM THE LIFE OF JOHN ELIOT, BY CONVERS FRANCIS.
MR. ELIOT had been for some time assiduously employed in learning theIndian language. To accomplish this, he secured the assistance of one ofthe natives, who could speak English. Eliot, at the close of his IndianGrammar, mentions him as "a pregnant-witted young man, who had beena servant in an English house, who pretty well understood his ownlanguage, and had a clear pronu...nciation. " He took this Indian into hisfamily, and by constant intercourse with him soon become sufficientlyconversant with the vocabulary and construction of the language totranslate the ten commandments, the Lord's prayer, and several passagesof Scripture, besides composing exhortations and prayers.
Mr. Eliot must have found his task anything but easy or inviting. He wasto learn a dialect, in which he could be assisted by no affinity withthe languages he already knew. He was to do this without the help of anywritten or printed specimens, with nothing in the shape of a grammar oranalysis, but merely by oral communication with his Indian instructor, or with other natives, who, however comparatively intelligent, must fromthe nature of the case have been very imperfect teachers.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Do tell us a story aboutGRANDFATHER'S CHAIR!" APPENDIX TO PART I.
EXTRACTS FROM THE LIFE OF JOHN ELIOT, BY CONVERS FRANCIS.
MR. ELIOT had been for some time assiduously employed in learning theIndian language. To accomplish this, he secured the assistance of one ofthe natives, who could speak English. Eliot, at the close of his IndianGrammar, mentions him as "a pregnant-witted young man, who had beena servant in an English house, who pretty well understood his ownlanguage, and had a clear pronu...nciation. " He took this Indian into hisfamily, and by constant intercourse with him soon become sufficientlyconversant with the vocabulary and construction of the language totranslate the ten commandments, the Lord's prayer, and several passagesof Scripture, besides composing exhortations and prayers.
Mr. Eliot must have found his task anything but easy or inviting. He wasto learn a dialect, in which he could be assisted by no affinity withthe languages he already knew. He was to do this without the help of anywritten or printed specimens, with nothing in the shape of a grammar oranalysis, but merely by oral communication with his Indian instructor, or with other natives, who, however comparatively intelligent, must fromthe nature of the case have been very imperfect teachers.
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