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The French scholar's guide: or, An easy help for translating French into English : containing 1. Select Fables. 2. Diverting tales. 3. Witty repartees. 4. Rarities of different countries. 5. Familiar letters. 6. Moral sentences. 7. Bills, receipts, and other forms of business, &c. With an index, in alphabetical order, of all the words contained in the book, their proper signification in English, and their grammatical derivation. Designed for the use of schools, as well as private learners; very useful to foreigners who understand French, and wish to learn English; and also very assisting to the mistresses of French boarding-schools, &c. who, if they understand but little of grammar of English, may, by the index, easily correct their scholar's translations

Title: The French scholar's guide: or, An easy help for translating French into English : containing 1. Select Fables. 2. Diverting tales. 3. Witty repartees. 4. Rarities of different countries. 5. Familiar letters. 6. Moral sentences. 7. Bills, receipts, and other forms of business, &c. With an index, in alphabetical order, of all the words contained in the book, their proper signification in English, and their grammatical derivation. Designed for the use of schools, as well as private learners; very useful to foreigners who understand French, and wish to learn English; and also very assisting to the mistresses of French boarding-schools, &c. who, if they understand but little of grammar of English, may, by the index, easily correct their scholar's translations / By Peter Hudson, teacher of French, &c. Author of The new introduction to trade and business.
Author: Hudson, Peter (Teacher)
Publication: London : Printed, by assignment from the executor of G. Keith, for J. Johnson; no. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard; J. Scatcherd, and C. Law, in Ave-Maria-Lane, 1799.

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xxviii, 323 p.; 18 cm.

Alternative Title

Easy help for translating French into English
Guide pour ceux qui commencent à apprendre la langue françoise

Subject

French language > Textbooks for foreign speakers > English

Note

Signatures: A⁶ a⁶ b² B-2E⁶.
With a second title-page, in French, on the verso of the half-title: "Guide pour ceux qui commencent à apprendre la langue françoise."
Printer's imprint: "Printed by H. L. Galabin, Ingram-Court, London."
"An alphabetical index of all the words contained in the preceding work, &c." -- p. 191-323.
With a list of recommenders of the book: "p. [ix-x].

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Call Number

Pforz (Hudson, P. French scholar's guide)

OCLC

244390622

Author

Hudson, Peter (Teacher)

Title

The French scholar's guide: or, An easy help for translating French into English : containing 1. Select Fables. 2. Diverting tales. 3. Witty repartees. 4. Rarities of different countries. 5. Familiar letters. 6. Moral sentences. 7. Bills, receipts, and other forms of business, &c. With an index, in alphabetical order, of all the words contained in the book, their proper signification in English, and their grammatical derivation. Designed for the use of schools, as well as private learners; very useful to foreigners who understand French, and wish to learn English; and also very assisting to the mistresses of French boarding-schools, &c. who, if they understand but little of grammar of English, may, by the index, easily correct their scholar's translations / By Peter Hudson, teacher of French, &c. Author of The new introduction to trade and business.

Imprint

London : Printed, by assignment from the executor of G. Keith, for J. Johnson; no. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard; J. Scatcherd, and C. Law, in Ave-Maria-Lane, 1799.

Edition

Twelfth edition, carefully revised and greatly improved.

Access

Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Local Note

Pforzheimer copy: With the armorial ex-libris of "Vice.tis de Cussy"; "Miss Middleton" in ink on half-title; "Brenda Mary Poynting / September 1st 1938 / Courseulles s/mer" in ink on half-title. -- Bound in contemporary sheepskin with gilt spine bands.

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Johnson, Joseph, 1738-1809. Publisher

Scatcherd, James, 1755-1828. Publisher

Law, Charles, 1763 or 1764-1827. Publisher

Galabin, Henry Louis, -1801. Printer

Poynting, Brenda Mary. Former owner

Other Title

Guide pour ceux qui commencent à apprendre la langue françoise

Research Call Number

Pforz (Hudson, P. French scholar's guide)

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