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 want to learn English; and also very assisting to the mistresses of French boarding schools, &c. who, if they should 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/creator | Hudson, Peter |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | The ninth edition corrected and enlarged. |
| Publication Info | London : Printed by assignment from the executor of G. Keith, for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard, M.DCC.LXXXV. [1785] |
| Description | xxviii, 346, 2 unnumbered pages ; 12⁰. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text online |
| Subjects |
| General note | With an additional titlepage in French: 'Guide pour ceux qui commencent à apprendre la langue françoise', a half title, and a final leaf containing 'Contents', with an advertisement on verso. |
| General note | In the title the chapter headings are in two parallel columns divided by two vertical rules. |
| General note | Reproduction of original from British Library. |
| References | English Short Title Catalog, T231395. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
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