Progressive oral lessons for French conversation; or Viva voce practice in rendering English phraseology into French, by J.C. and H. Tarver |
Common terms and phrases
Abdallah Abounadar Alcibiades answer apud atque attend Avoir brother Cæsar candlestick cold dervise dine dinner door dress Duke de Berry Duke of Guise Earnscliff ées ejus enim erat esset été aimé etsi father fear French fuit gentleman German give glad happened happy hear heard horse hour Japhet Julius Cæsar kind last night legatos Leipzig letter live London look Louis XIV matter mind morning neque never nihil o'clock obliged Paris person play pleased promise pronouns qu'il quæ quam que je quod quum rebus received remember rich sämmtliche Werke servant sibi speak Stuttgart subjunctive mood sunt tell thee Themistocles Theramene thing thou Timothy to-day to-morrow told turbed Verb model Verb radical VOCABULARY OF VERBS vols voulez-vous wait walk weather wish write wrong
Popular passages
Page xlviii - Nullas Germanorum populis urbes habitari, satis notum est : ne pati quidem inter se junctas sedes. Colunt discreti ac diversi, ut fons, ut campus, ut nemus placuit. Vicos locant, non in nostrum morem, connexis et cohaerentibus aedificiis : suam quisque domum spatio circumdat, sive adversus casus ignis remedium, sive inscitia aedificandi.
Page 149 - I consider a human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties, until the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot, and vein, that runs through the body of it.
Page 153 - A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can- be possessed of. It heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades in paintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and makes the colours more beautiful, though not so glaring as they would be without it.
Page 142 - As fables took their birth in the very infancy of learning, they never flourished more than when learning was at its greatest height. To justify this assertion, I shall put my reader in mind of Horace, the greatest wit and critic in the Augustan age ; and of Boileau, the most correct poet among the moderns : not to mention La Fontaine, who, by this way of writing, is come more into vogue than any other author of our times.
Page 146 - Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet Every animal, but man, keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third.
Page 113 - I had the misfortune to find his whole family very much dejected. Upon asking him the occasion of it, he told me that his wife had dreamt a very strange dream the night before, which they were afraid portended some misfortune to themselves or to their children.
Page 110 - As one spirit raised another, I observed that at the end of every story the whole company closed their ranks, and crowded about the fire. I took notice in particular of a little boy, who was so attentive to every story, that I am mistaken if he ventures to go to bed by himself this twelvemonth.
Page 149 - Men's passions operate variously, and appear in different kinds of actions, according as they are more or less rectified and swayed by reason. When one hears of negroes, who, upon the death of their masters, or upon changing their service, hang themselves upon the next tree, as it sometimes happens in our American plantations, who can forbear admiring their fidelity, though it expresses itself in so dreadful a manner?
Page 146 - THERE is a story in the Arabian Nights Tales of a king who had long languished under an ill habit of body, and had taken abundance of remedies to no purpose. At length, says the fable, a physician cured him by the following method. He took a hollow ball of wood, and filled it with several drugs ; after which he closed it up so artificially that nothing appeared. He likewise took a mall, and after having hollowed the handle, and that part which strikes the ball, he inclosed in them several drugs after...
Page 149 - I am, therefore, much delighted with reading the accounts of savage nations, and with contemplating those virtues which are wild and uncultivated ; to see courage exerting itself in fierceness, resolution in obstinacy, wisdom in cunning, patience in sullenness and despair. Mens...