Excerpt from The Elements of the Hebrew Language Probably one reason why so little attention has been paid (except by theological students) to the study of Hebrew heretofore, has been the erroneous but long-prevailing idea, that it is a hard and disagreeable language to acquire a knowledge of but nothing could be further from the truth; for there is not a lad of ordi nary capacity who cannot obtain a knowledge of it in less time, and with far more ease, than he can that of either Latin or Greek; and yet both boys and girls learn these languages. 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.