English into French, a selection from the best English prose writers to be turned into French, by H. van Laun. [With] Partie française (key).Henri van Laun 1876 |
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... Verbs . Prepositions Conjunctions Adverbs V. OF CLEARNESS VI . OF EUPHONY . VII . OF IDIOMATIC PHRASES . EXTRACTS . I. The Young Philosopher ( J. Aikin ) . II . The Monkey and the Two Cats ( Dodsley ) III . An Account of the Destruction ...
... Verbs . Prepositions Conjunctions Adverbs V. OF CLEARNESS VI . OF EUPHONY . VII . OF IDIOMATIC PHRASES . EXTRACTS . I. The Young Philosopher ( J. Aikin ) . II . The Monkey and the Two Cats ( Dodsley ) III . An Account of the Destruction ...
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... verb to come , venir , always expresses motion , and is generally applied to per- sons , hence we better translate day came after day by les jours se succédaient , literally the days succeeded each other . It is therefore clear that a ...
... verb to come , venir , always expresses motion , and is generally applied to per- sons , hence we better translate day came after day by les jours se succédaient , literally the days succeeded each other . It is therefore clear that a ...
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... verb is used instead of the English passive when the subject is personal and the sentence more precise , as : - 1. Wisdom is only to be acquired by study and experience La sagesse ne s'acquiert que par l'étude et l'expérience 2. True ...
... verb is used instead of the English passive when the subject is personal and the sentence more precise , as : - 1. Wisdom is only to be acquired by study and experience La sagesse ne s'acquiert que par l'étude et l'expérience 2. True ...
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... verb " to be forgotten , " but to redeem . The question is not if the translator's expressions are more correct or elegant in his own mind , but simply that they neither give back the words or the meaning of the author . Toutes in the ...
... verb " to be forgotten , " but to redeem . The question is not if the translator's expressions are more correct or elegant in his own mind , but simply that they neither give back the words or the meaning of the author . Toutes in the ...
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... pay attention to the Gender of Nouns , the place of Adjec- tives , Adverbs , and Pronouns , the peculiar way in which Negative and Interrogative forms are made , the Irregular Verbs 34 PUBLIC SCHOOL SERIES . OF GRAMMATICAL CORRECTNESS.
... pay attention to the Gender of Nouns , the place of Adjec- tives , Adverbs , and Pronouns , the peculiar way in which Negative and Interrogative forms are made , the Irregular Verbs 34 PUBLIC SCHOOL SERIES . OF GRAMMATICAL CORRECTNESS.
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Page 27 - ... The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of...
Page 32 - And some thro' wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below. They saw the gleaming river seaward flow From the inner land : far off, three mountain-tops...
Page 98 - The Genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me ; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating; but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.
Page 101 - There Siddons, in the prime of her majestic beauty, looked with emotion on a scene surpassing all the imitations of the stage. There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa.
Page 83 - Cadijah; in the cave of Hera, three miles from Mecca," he consulted the spirit of fraud or enthusiasm, whose abode is not in the heavens, but in the mind of the prophet. The faith which, under the name of Islam, he preached to his family and nation is compounded of an eternal truth, and a necessary fiction, That there is only one God, and that Mahomet is the Apostle of God.
Page 33 - With half-dropt eyelids still, Beneath a heaven dark and holy, To watch the long bright river drawing slowly His waters from the purple hill...
Page 96 - The clouds still rested on one half of it, insomuch that I could discover nothing in it: but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Page 100 - Heathfield, recently ennobled for his memorable defence of Gibraltar against the fleets and armies of France and Spain. The long procession was closed by the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of the realm, by the great dignitaries, and by the brothers and sons of the King. Last of all came the Prince of Wales, conspicuous by his fine person and noble bearing.
Page 85 - But still," said the young one, "I would gladly know the reason of this mutual slaughter. I could never kill what I could not eat.
Page 101 - There were gathered together, from all parts of a great, free, enlightened, and prosperous empire, grace and female loveliness, wit and learning, the representatives of every science and of every art. There were seated round the queen the fair-haired young daughters of the house of Brunswick. There the ambassadors of great kings and commonwealths gazed with admiration on a spectacle which no other country in the world could present.