VII.

Of the Play-House

VIII.

Of Colours, Weights, Measures, Coins, and Metals IX. Of Titles

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SECTION III

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V. Of Wild Animals and Birds of Prey VI. Of Insects and Amphibious Animals

SECTION IV.

Relative to the Universe.

I.

Of the Celestial Bodies, the Atmosphere, &c.

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II. Of Water, Fire, and Earth

III. Of the Divisions of the World, Names of Nations, &c.
IV. Of Navigation...

Table of French Verbs rendered in English by Verbs followed by
Particles

Table of Verbs which require Particles in English of different sig-
nification from those used in French

XI. To speak to a Tailor, a Shoemaker, &c..................... XII. To Converse and Spend one's Time in Company Idiomatical and Proverbial Phrases..

Scènes Choisies tirées de Molière, et d'autres Auteurs célèbres.

49

53

61

79

87

...... 105

106

Scène du Grondeur .....

Scène du Port de Mer

110

FAIBLES CHOISIES DE LA FONTAINE .......

Vers Maximes ou Proverbes, tirés des Fables de La Fontaine .................................. 168

NUMBERS.

Language is no more than a Collection of Phrases or Sentences, by the Help of which Mankind express their Thoughts on the Objects of their Wants, &c.

ONE.

Un.

One.

Une.

Two.

Deux.

Three.

Trois.

Four.

Quatre.

Five.

Cing.

Six.
Six.
Seven.

Sept.

Eight.

Huit.

Nine.

Neuf.

Ten.

Dix.

Eleven.

Onze.

Twelve.

Douze.

Thirteen.

Treize.

Fourteen.

Quatorze.
Fifteen.

Quinze.

Sixteen.

Seize.

Seventeen.

Dix-sept.
Eighteen.
Dix-huit.

VOL. I.

LEND me one of your books.

m. Prêtez-moi un de vos livres.

He has just broken one of the bottles.
f. Il vient de casser une des bouteilles.
His carriage was drawn by two horses.
m. & f. Sa voiture était tirée par deux chevaux,
He lives three doors from here.

Il demeure à trois portes d'ici.
I will send it to you in four hours.
Je vous l'enverrai dans quatre heures.
My house is five miles from town.
Ma maison est à cinq milles de la ville.
I want six of them.

Il n'en faut six.

I have spent seven months with him.
J'ai passé sept mois avec lui.
There were eight of us at table.
Nous étions huit à table.

He owes him nine guineas.
Il lui doit neuf guinées.

Can you count as high as ten?
Savez-vous compter jusqu'à dix?

I will call at your house about eleven o'clock.
Je passerai chez vous sur les onze heures.
Out of twelve only six remain.

De douze il n'en reste que six.

This piece contains about thirteen yards.
Cette pièce contient environ treize verges.
There were fourteen of the same opinion.
Ils étaient quatorze du même avis.
He died fifteen years old.

Il mourut à l'âge de quinze ans.
The pound of bread is sixteen ounces.
La livre de pain est de seize onces.
Seventeen shillings are coming to me.
Il me revient dix-sept chelins.
I offer you eighteen pence a piece.
Je vous offre dix-huit sous de la pièce

B

Nineteen.

Dix-neuf.

Twenty.

Vingt,

Twenty-one.

Vingt et un.

Twenty-two.

Vingt-deux, &c.

Thirty.

Trente.

Thirty-one.

Trente et un.
Thirty-two.

Trente-deux.

Forty.

Quarante.

Forty-one.

Quarante et une.

Forty-two.

Quarante-deux.

Fifty.

Cinquante.

Fifty-one.

Cinquante et un.

He sent me nineteen fine peaches.
Il m'a envoyé dix-neuf belles pêches.
They are twenty in number.

Ils sont au nombre de vingt.

He was escorted by twenty-one soldiers.
Il était escorté par vingt et un soldats.
The fleet consisted of twenty-two vessels.
La flotte était composée de vingt-deux vaisseaux.
This work is in thirty volumes.

Cet ouvrage est en trente volumes.
Thirty-one of them remain with me.
Il m'en reste trente et un.
Thirty-two are sufficient.
Trente-deux suffisent.

His illness lasted forty days.
Sa maladie a duré quarante jours.
There were forty-one ladies at the ball.
Il y avait quarante et une dames au bal.
Have you forty-two of them?

En avez-vous quarante-deux?
I have got fifty at least.
J'en ai au moins cinquante.
He lost fifty-one per cent.

Il a perdu cinquante et un pour cent.

This room is fifty-two feet wide.

Cette chambre a cinquante-deux pieds de largeur.
The parlour is sixty feet long.

La salle a soixante pieds de longueur.

This house is sixty-one feet high.

Cette maison a soixante et un pieds de hauteur.
They say that the river is sixty-two fathoms deep
On dit que la rivière a soixante-deux brasses de
profondeur.

He was seventy years old when he died.

Il avait soixante-dix ans quand il mourut.
There were seventy-one people killed.

Il y eut soixante et onze personnes de tuées.
This schoolmaster has seventy-two scholars.
Ce maître d'école a soixante-douze écoliers.
He has had seventy-three votes.

Il a eu soixante-treize voix.

It is a ship of seventy-four guns.
C'est un vaisseau de soixante-quatorze.
He has seventy-five barrels of flour.

Soixante-quinze. Il a soixante-quinze barils de farine.

Seventy-six.
Soixante-seize.
Seventy-seven.

He has got seventy-six hogsheads of wine.
Il a soixante-seize barriques de vin.
That weighs seventy-seven pounds.
Soixante-dix-sept. Cela pèse soixante-dix-sept livres.