Authority Cited: Walker, Walker’s Pref. to Ex. of the Lat. Synt.
Author name and dates: William Walker (1623-1684)
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Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: two Walker cites identified in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, four Walker cites identified in 1755 Dict. vol. 2, No additional Walker cites were identified in the 1773 Dict. The editions of these titles used by SJ is unknown.]
English examples of the Latine syntaxis: Or, The rules of the Latine syntaxis exemplified in English sentences, fitted and framed to the construction of those rules. In order to the bringing of learners to a more clear and full understanding of those rules by the translating of these examples. With an intermixture of critical notes and grammatical observations, (mantissæ loco) added for the diversion of teachers, and instruction of learners. By William Walker, B.D., Schoolmaster at Grantham in Lincolnshire. 1683, London: Printed by John Playford for Job Kellington, at the Star in Little Britain; exegetical; institutor; philology; preterlapsed; [BKG Note: only exegetical is cited in the Dict. as in this work. The other cites, including those found in the title below, are only to "Walker."]
Author name and dates: William Walker (1623-1684)
Creative Commons License, National Portrait Gallery
BKG Bio-tweet: Cambridge education; schoolmaster; influential grammar books; known as "Particles Walker"
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: two Walker cites identified in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, four Walker cites identified in 1755 Dict. vol. 2, No additional Walker cites were identified in the 1773 Dict. The editions of these titles used by SJ is unknown.]
English examples of the Latine syntaxis: Or, The rules of the Latine syntaxis exemplified in English sentences, fitted and framed to the construction of those rules. In order to the bringing of learners to a more clear and full understanding of those rules by the translating of these examples. With an intermixture of critical notes and grammatical observations, (mantissæ loco) added for the diversion of teachers, and instruction of learners. By William Walker, B.D., Schoolmaster at Grantham in Lincolnshire. 1683, London: Printed by John Playford for Job Kellington, at the Star in Little Britain; exegetical; institutor; philology; preterlapsed; [BKG Note: only exegetical is cited in the Dict. as in this work. The other cites, including those found in the title below, are only to "Walker."]
- A treatise of English particles, shewing much of the variety of their significations and uses in English: and how to render them into Latine according to the Propriety and Elegancy of that Language. With a praxis upon the same. By William Walker, B.D. Formerly Master of Louth School, and of the Free-School in Grantham. The thirteenth edition. 1706, London: Printed by J.H. for E. Pawlett at the Bible in Chancery-Lane, near Fleet-Street; put; tartly; [BKG Note: both of these headword quotes are in the Preface of this title.]