SOME SELECT FAMILIAR PHRASES On the principal Difficulties and Niceties of the French Language. SECOND AMERICAN, FROM THE SIXTH FRENCH EDITION. TO WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED A TREATISE ON FRENCH VERSIFICATION. THE WHOLE CAREFULLY REVISED AND CORRECTED BY AUGUSTE C. HOUËL, PROFESSOR OF LANGUAGES. NEW-YORK: *UBLISHED BY E. DUYCKINCK, COLLINS AND CO., W. P. GILLES COLLINS AND HANNAY, AND E. BLISS AND J. & J. Harper, Printers. WHITE. ADVERTISEMENT. A GRAMMAR, written by an author so advantageously known as M. DE Levizac, could not fail of being favourably received by the public; and many considerable editions, published in England, have had a rapid sale. All the principles contained in it are sanctioned by the authority of the French Academy and of the excellent Grammarians, who for a century past have laboured to give fixed rules to the French language. This advantage joined to another, which is that all the phrases given as examples, or exercises, are extracted from the Dictionary of the French Academy, or the works of the best authors, gives it a decided superiority over all the French Gram |