Über dieses Buch
CONTENTS OF BOOK THIRD.
Difference between the English and French verbs in their government
193
A list of verbs which require after them a preposition in
French, though they have none in English
A list of verbs which take after them no preposition in
French, though they have one in English
195
A list of verbs which require after them in French a diffe-
rent preposition to that in English
199
Verbs in their relation to each other in the infinitive mood. 199
A list of verbs which require after them the preposition"de" before another verb in the infinitive
200
A list of verbs which require after them the preposition “à” before another verb in the infinitive
201
A list of verbs which require no preposition after them
before another verb in the infinitive
202
When is the subjunctive mood to be used ?
203
How is the subjunctive mood to be used ?
205
The participles
207
The participle present
The participle past
208
Peculiar forms assumed by the French verbs, or, idiomatic
tenses
212
How to use the French verbs in colloquial style
213
Essays on conversation
218
Idioms
221
A list of Idioms of most common occurrence
222
Exercises on idioms arranged in series and groups
224
Series
Groups
234
Some idiomatic expressions of daily occurrence
237
Some more idiomatic expressions most in use
238
Proverbs, or common sayings, which correspond pretty well
in both languages
248
A second list of idioms given as materials for exercises to be
made up in French
251
A finishing series of free exercises French and English, espe-
cially chosen for practice in the use of tenses
254
-ons for e. ination on book third,
278
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Appendix to second and third books.
French-English Vocabulary
English-French Vocabulary
Geographical Names
Names of towns
Christian, mythologic, and ancient names of persons
Naval, or sea-terms
Sea-phrases
Difference between the English and French Compass
Some Engineering-terms
French legal coins, weights and measures
281
295
309
310
311
316
319
320
323
CONTENTS OF BOOK FOURTH.
Direct preparation for competitive or other examinations. 326
FIRST SERIES.
First Essay.
La ville de Tyr: Fénélon :--Télémaque
326
English sentences to be turned into French
336
Second Essay.
Lettre d'un enfant à sa mère :-N.
327
Third Essay.
328
Le travail est un trésor :-N.
329
Fourth Essay.
Ulysse à Télémaque:-Fénélon
330
Fifth Essay.
L'Arabe et sa Marmite :--N.
Thales's replies. N.
Sixth Essay.
Le bonheur consiste à se contenter de peu :-N.
381
Tit for tat:-N.
332
Seventh Essay.
Le paysan et deux jeunes gens :-N.
The Zouaves :-N.
333
Eighth Essay.
Le plaideur et François ler:-N.
334
Johnson, in Boswell
.
Ninth Essay.
Deux anecdotes :-N.
335
Gibraltar :-N.
Tenth Essay.
Caractère de Montesquieu : E. Géruzes :--Etudes litté.
raires
836
Haydn and Mozart :-N.
337
SECOND SERIES.
Premier Essai.
Charles Douze :- Voltaire
338
Roading :- :- Gibbon
Deuxième Essai.
L'histoire ,- Rollin :-Traité des études
339
The government of States :-Junius
340
Troisième Essai.
Dernière allocution de Napoléon à sa garde
A dialogue between a husband and his wife :-Miss Maria
Edgeworth
342
Quatrième Essai.
La patrie :-E. Souvestre
Wellington, the morning after Waterloo
343
Cinquième Essai.
Francois ler et Charles-Quinti-N.
344
William the Third's health :-Macaulay
345
Sixième Essai.
Frédéric, roi de Prusse :-D. Thiébault
346
Napoleon's tomb:-George Jones
347
Septième Essai.
La Justice et la charité :- de la Mennais
348
The Island of Caprea :-Addison
349 Huitième Essai.
Pierre l'Ermite :--Michaud
350
The conscience :-Erskine
351
Neuvième Essai.
Les plaisirs de la campagne:—Bernardin de St. Pierre. 352
Titus and the Temple of Jerusalem :- - Milman
353
Dixième Essai.
Dialogue entre Athalie et Joas :-Jean Racine
354
Alexander's march through the desert :- Thirlwall. 355
THIRD SERIE S.
Caractère de François Premier:-Tissot
356
357
358
359
360
361
362
363
364
The two cousins:-- Fuller
L'Ermite de la forêt :-N.
Sir Roger de Coverley :-Addison
Troisième Essai. Lettre de Voltaire à une demoiselle The classical education :-Dr. Arnold
Quatrième Essai,
Premier âge du monde :- Bossuet
Dialogue between Stanhope and a young Englishman :-
Lord Chesterfield
Cinquième Essai
La vie humaine :- Massillon
Desire of knowledge :- Boswell
Charles-Quint et les brigands :-N.
A strange room in a lone farm-house :-N
L'homme:-Pascal
On the decease of the Duke of Wellington :- Disraeli .
Huitième Essai.
Débarquement des Normands en Angleterre :- Thierry
Execution of Ridley and Latimer :-Goldsmith
Don Diègne :-Pierre Corneille
The great fire of London :-John Evelyn
Portrait de Mirabeau :-Cormenin
A candid man :--B. Lytton
365
367
368
369
370
371
372
374
376
FOURTH SERIES.
Portrait de Fénélon, archevêque de Cambrai :—de Lamar-
tine
Supper of a French peasant:-Stern
378
Portrait de Danton :-Mignet
379
Remarks on Francis the First and the Emperor Charles :
Robertson
380
Le suicide :-Jean Jacques Rousseau
Byron about to leave Harrow :- – Byron
382
Le grondeur et son valet :--Brueys
385
387
388
389
390
On being reminded of his birthday :-Dr. Johnson
Cinquième Essai. Louis Seize, la veille de son exécution :-A. Thiers. Portrait of Washington :-T. Jefferson
Sixième Essai. Le gourmand :-La Bruyère Lavalette escaping from prison :-Percy
Venise :- Madame de Staëi
A part of the history of a philosophic vagabond -Oliver
Goldsmith
L'homme :- Buffon
Dr. Johnson and his times :- Macaulay
Neuvième Essai
L'Ours et les deux compagnons :-Jean de Lafontaine
A city in Arabia :-N.
Incendie de Moscou : - Comte de Ségur
The duel :- Charles Dickens
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392
393
394
395
396
397
Portrait de Mahomet :-N.
398
A Devonshire cottage :-Edward Jesse
400
Charles ler, Roi d'Angleterre, quelques heures avant son
exécution :- Guizot.
Character of Richelieu :-J. Gifford.
402
Ode à la fortune :- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
403
The voluble lady :-Jane Austen
404
Gil Blas devient le favori de l'archevêque de Grenade :-
Le Sage
406
The Schoolmaster :- Verplank
407
Portrait de Marie Antoinette
My maiden brief :-Knight's Quarterly Magazine
409
