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Martel's Elements.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PC2114 .M3 1796 v.1 v.1
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martel, Michael.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- French language--Readers.
- French language.
- Genre:
- Readers (Publications)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes ; 18 cm (12mo)
- Place of Publication:
- New-York : Printed by C. C. Van Alen & Co. for Michael Martel, 1796-1797.
- Contents:
- (from t.p.) v. [1] I. New essays on education, relative, especially to history, moral philosophy and composition, II. An introduction to the French language by means of a literal translation of the first hundred pages of this book, the conjugation of the verbs, and some familiar phrases, III. A selection of delicate bon-mots, anecdotes, sentences, sentiments, thoughts, play on words, anagrams, witticisms, devices, puns, jokes, apologues, happy applications of passages in famous writers, stories, ingenious repartees, but having nothing of what might alarm modesty or excite condemnable laughter upon the objects of our duties and of our respect which, certainly, is not the case in the books now in the hands of youth to learn French by.
- Notes:
- Vol. 1: xvii, [2], 20-480, 112 p.
- Local Notes:
- Imperfect: v. 2 wanting.
- Cited in:
- Evans 30740
- OCLC:
- 45023120
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