French language - Study and teaching - Early works to 1800
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A key to the French language; or, pocket-companion for those who wish to speak, spell, write, and translate, with ease, expedition, and correctness. In three parts. Part I. containing 108 Examples of the different Modes of rendering the most familiar English Words (alphabetically arranged) into French; after a new Manner, in the Nature of School-Copies. Part II. containing Rules or Explanations of those Examples. Part III. containing a short View of the Eight Parts of Speech, with References to the Examples; which renders the whole clear, comprehensive, and pleasant to the Learner. Calculated no less for the Use of Schools and private Pupils, than for the Public at large, as a short Road to the Knowledge of Grammar, and a certain Guide to the Acquaintance with Authors. Dedicated to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
Date: MDCCLXXXII. [1782]- E-books
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Compendium des r�egles et des d�elicatesses de la langue francoise , ou remarques sur chaque partie du discours en cette langue, Extraites des meilleurs Grammairiens Fran�cois, et appuy�ees d'exemples, en prose et en vers, propres �a former le Coeur, et �a orner L'Esprit. Avec une id�ee de la versification fran�coise, Et les Maximes de la Sagesse en Vers. Recueil Publi�e A la demande D'Amateurs de la Litt�erature Fran�coise, ET D�edi�e A la Nation Angloise en g�en�eral, Et aux Habitants de la ville et des environs DE Chichester EN Particulier. Nouvelle edition. Par Thomas Taveau, Pr�etre, M. A. Ci-Devant Professeur de Rhetorique et Principal du Coll�ege du Havre.
Taveau, ThomasDate: MDCCXCVII. [1797]- E-books
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A guide from the English language to the French , or a French grammar; wherein those cases only are treated, on which the two syntaxes do not agree; and the rules are particularly adapted to the genius of the English language. By F. Henry.
François HenryDate: 1799- E-books
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A new method of learning French , in a practical and easy way: being an illustration of all the French verbs, systematically arranged, and combined in short Sentences, with the Substantives and other Words to which they are the most likely to be connected: With an English Translation, so very literal as to answer to the French, Word for Word, without offending the Rules of Construction. By Mr. Du Mitand, Teacher of Greek and Latin, and of the Ten principal European living Tongues, Author of several grammatical Works.
Huguenin Du Mitand, LouisDate: M.DCC.XCI. [1791]- E-books
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A new introduction to the French Tongue by a short method of explaining the eight parts of speech. ... By the care of several ministers and particularly of J. D. R. = Nouvelle introduction a la langue fran�coise; par une courte methode d'expliquer les huit parties du discours.
Date: 1720