The civil service first French book. [With] Clef des exercises or Key

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Page 2 - At once the simplest and most complete Grammar of the French language. To the pupil the effect is almost as if he looked into a map, so well-defined is the course of study as explained by M. de Fivas.
Page 6 - In the present Edition of this well-known work, it has been the Author's endeavour to render it still more deserving of its established popularity. The book is beautifully and accurately printed on fine paper; and it has appended to it a copious and well-digested Dictionary, French and English, of all the words contained in the volume. CONTENTS. Le Renard dupé La jeune Mouche Les deux Voisins La Désobéissance punie Les trois Souhaits Les Châteaux en Espagne Macédoine L'Avarice punie Diogène...
Page 4 - Le Tresor National is especially intended to produce by practice, in those who learn French, a facility of expressing themselves in that language. This book may also be advantageously used for written as well as...
Page 21 - Soixante-neuf. 70 Soixante-dix. 71 Soixante et onze.* 72 Soixante-douze. 73 Soixante-treize. 74 Soixante-quatorze. 75 Soixante-quinze. 76 Soixante-seize. 77 Soixante-dix-sept. 78 Soixante-dix-huit. 79 Soixante-dix-neuf. 80 Quatre-vingts. 81 Quatre-vingt-un. 82 Quatre-vingt-deux. 83 Quatre-vingt-trois.
Page 3 - Votre ouvrage, bien que peu volumineux, est clair et complet. Je ne recommanderai certainement jamais d'autre grammaire.' From Professor DUVAL. — ' J'approuve beaucoup votre ouvrage et je me propose d'en faire usage : il est déjà entre les mains de plusieurs de mes élèves.' From Professor MESSIEUX. — ' Je me décide à donner la préférence à votre Grammaire, ayant le mérite d'être mieux arrangée, plus claire et plus correcte que celle dont je me sers.
Page 2 - De Fivas' New Grammar of French Grammars; comprising the substance of all the most approved French Grammars extant, but more especially of the standard work ' La Grammaire des Grammaires,' sanctioned by the French Academy and
Page 3 - Honorary Canon of Worcester ; late Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford ; Head Master of the Grammar School of King Edward the Sixth, Bromsgrove. From Professor MARCEL. — * J'ai parcouru votre dernier ouvrage, " Grammaire des Grammaires," et, frappé de sa clarté et de sa concision, je lui ai reconnu sous ce rapport une grande supériorité sur les autres grammaires, aussi me suis-je empressé de la recommander à tous ceux qui désirent se pénétrer des vrais principes de notre langue.
Page 7 - Besides its suitableness for the learner, we do not know a book better adapted than this for brushing up the neglected French of those whose school-days, like ours, have been over for some little time past.
Page 36 - I shall have, thou wilt have, he will have; we shall have, you will have, they will have.

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