This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 edition. Excerpt: ...that is, not at home; and, je ditterai aujourd'hui dans la ville, I shall dine in the town today, and not in the country. 72 The noun delice is of the masculine gender, in the singular number; and feminine in the plural: as, tin grand delice, de grandes delices, ' 73. The r of ether is always sounded. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 edition. Excerpt: ...that is, not at home; and, je ditterai aujourd'hui dans la ville, I shall dine in the town today, and not in the country. 72 The noun delice is of the masculine gender, in the singular number; and feminine in the plural: as, tin grand delice, de grandes delices, ' 73. The r of ether is always sounded. Ltger is pronounced lige; except before a substantive commencing with a vowel or h mute; for then the r is sounded, and joined to it in pronunciation. The final r of etranger, manager, mensonger, messager, oreiller, passager, pecher, potager, rocher, souper, verger, viager, is in no case pronounced. 74. A pair of bellows (a bellows), is expressed by: un soufflet; and, a pair of breeches or small-clothes, by: une culotte, or un haut-de-chausse; and not by: une paire de culottes. 75. When the adjective or participle is preceded by a noun, as in: il y eut cent hommes tues, and other similar phrases, the preposition de is omitted. But when the noun is not expressed, but only understood, de must be joined to the adjective: as, il y en eut deux cents de blesses, two hundred of them were wounded. 76. Sound the final c of bloc, choc, escroc, /roc, roc, troc, soc, estoc; and the o in coq. In accroc and bloc de marbre, the final c is silent. 77. The adverb tout is invariable before an adjective in the masculine plural; and also when it is followed by another adverb; being used in the latter case merely as an expletive, to give greater force to the expression. 78. Une nouvelle certaine, signifies: authentic news; and une certaine nouvelle, a certain piece of news, requiring confirmation. 79. When the second person singular of the imperative mood ends in e mute, and is followed by the pronoun y or en, an s is added to the verb for...
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