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VOCABULARY I.

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Adjectives ending in e mute common to both genders

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A list of many Adjectives which differ in the masculine and feminine gender 13 Adjectives which, when placed before the substantives, have a meaning different from that which they have when placed after them

A list of some Nouns which have the force of adjectives, as they express some qualities or defects in man

Abstract Nouns

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VOCABULARY II.

Pronouns, Articles, &c.

Adverbs, Prepositions, &c.

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Words relating to Vegetables, Animals, &c.

Words relating to the Operations of the Mind, the Feelings of the Heart, &c. including the chief Conjunctions and Interjections

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V. Of Meals, and actions relating thereto

VI. Of the Names of Things necessary at Table

VI. Of Man's Apparel, &c.

VIII. Of Woman's Apparel, &c. •••••••

IX. Of Man's Habitation

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X. Of Furniture, and of Domestic Transactions

XI. Of the Kitchen, Cellar, &c.

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XIII. Of Human Beings, &c.

XIV. Of the Senses, the Body, and Diseases

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VIII. Of Colours, Weights, Measures, Coins, and Metals

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1. Of the Celestial Bodies, the Atmosphere, &c.

II. Of Water, Fire, and Earth

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

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V. Of Military Affairs

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Table of French Verbs rendered in English by Verbs followed by

Particles

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Table of Verbs which require Particles in English of different sig-
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CONVERSATION-PHRASES.

I. Of Meeting and Inquiring after a Friend's Health.
II. For asking Questions, Affirming, Denying, &c.
III. Of the Time of Day

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XI. To speak to a Tailor, a Shoemaker, &c.

XII. To Converse and Spend one's Time in Company
Idiomatical and Proverbial Phrases.

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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.

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

Ils sont au nombre de vingt.
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