GRAMMAR OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE, WITH PRACTICAL EXERCISES. BY N. WANOSTROCHT, LL. D. FOURTH AMERICAN FROM THE THIRTEENTH LONDON EDITION, With considerable Additions and Improvements. BOSTON: FUBLISHED BY WEST & RICHARDSON, 1817. Joseph T. Buckingham, Printer, Congress-Street: HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY GIFT OF GEORGE ARTHUR PLIMPTON DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, to wit: District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the thirtieth day of May A. D. 1817, and in the forty-first year of the Independence of the United States of America, West & Richardson, of the said District, have deposited in this office the title of of a book, the right whereof they claim as Proprietors, in the words following, to wit: A Grammar of the French language, with practical exercises. By N. Wanostrocht, LL. D. Fourth American from the thirteenth London edition, with considerable additions and improvements. In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned:" and also to an Act entitled, "An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, An Act for the encouragernent of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the Arts of Designing, Engraving and Etching Historical, and other Frints," JOHN W. DAVIS, ADVERTISEMENT. The publishers of the previous Boston editionsof this Grammar now offer a new and improved edition of a work which has become generally known and esteemed. When it was first determined to reprint this judicious system of theoretically and practically teaching the French language, a pefect conviction was felt that it would meet the approbation of the wise and learned as soon as it was known; and the rapid sale of three editions in the United States within a few years has fully realized that expectation and given indubitable evidence of the intrinsic merit of this mode of instruction. In London this Grammar has passed through thirteen editions, and it has likewise been printed several times at Paris. Previous to the printing of every new edition the American publishers have always been careful to procure the latest English copy, in order to profit by any improvement which may have been made in succeeding editions, and this attention has always proved advantageous. Besides this, they have been so fortunate as to have the same editor for all their editions, who, being an experienced instructer of languages, has give |