Excerpt from The Latin Speaker: Easy Dialogues and Other Selections for Memorizing and Declaiming in the Latin Language The desire which has led to the compilation of this volume is that of infusing more life into the study of Latin, as pursued in our classical schools. Two means are employed to this end one, that of securing the presence of ideas in the mind while the words are being read or repeat ed; the other, that of habituating the student to the use of that emphasis and inflection in dcliv ery which indicate the living thought behind the speech, and without which all spoken language is dead. 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.