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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 an exact 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 with to learn English; and also very assisting to the mistresses of French boarding-schools, &c. who, if they understand but little of grammar or English, may, by the index, easily correct their scholars' translations. By Peter Hudson, teacher of French, &c. author of the English introduction to the Latin tongue, and of the new introduction to trade and business.

Title
The French scholar's guide: or, An easy help for translating French into English [electronic resource] : 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 an exact 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 with to learn English; and also very assisting to the mistresses of French boarding-schools, &c. who, if they understand but little of grammar or English, may, by the index, easily correct their scholars' translations. By Peter Hudson, teacher of French, &c. author of the English introduction to the Latin tongue, and of the new introduction to trade and business.
Author
Hudson, Peter.
Publication
London : Printed by assignment from the executor of G. Keith, for B. Law, in Avemary-lane, and J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-yard, M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]

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1 online resource (xxviii, 346, [2] p.)
Series Statement
Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 2: Slave trade in the Atlantic world
Uniform Title
Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 2: Slave trade in the Atlantic world.
Subject
French language > Readers > Early works to 1800
Note
  • The French titlepage is on the verso of the half-title: 'Guide pour ceux qui commencement à apprendre la langue françoise: .. '.
  • With a half-title and a final advertisement leaf.
  • Reproduction of the original from the British Library.
OCLC
  • 785645620
  • galsas202376
Author
Hudson, Peter.
Title
The French scholar's guide: or, An easy help for translating French into English [electronic resource] : 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 an exact 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 with to learn English; and also very assisting to the mistresses of French boarding-schools, &c. who, if they understand but little of grammar or English, may, by the index, easily correct their scholars' translations. By Peter Hudson, teacher of French, &c. author of the English introduction to the Latin tongue, and of the new introduction to trade and business.
Imprint
London : Printed by assignment from the executor of G. Keith, for B. Law, in Avemary-lane, and J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-yard, M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]
Edition
The tenth edition, corrected and enlarged.
Series
Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 2: Slave trade in the Atlantic world
Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 2: Slave trade in the Atlantic world.
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