A THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL GRAMMAR OF THE French Tongue : IN WHICH THE PRESENT USAGE IS DISPLAYED, AGREEABLY TO THE DECISIONS OF THE FRENCH ACADEMY. By M. DE LÉVIZAC. Sixth American, from the Last London Edition. REVISED AND CORRECTED BY MR. STEPHEN PASQUIER, M.A. OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS, AND TEACHER OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE TO THE CHARTER HOUSE SCHOOL. REESE LIBRARY PUBLISHED BY EVERT DUYCKINCK, COLLINS & Co., COLLINS PREFACE. THE distinguished success that has attended the Grammar of M. de Lévizac, which has been adopted by the most celebrated Schools in England, is a sufficient proof that it is one of the most useful that has hitherto appeared; it has indeed one advantage, that will always secure it a preference above every other all the principles it contains are sanctioned by the Authority of the French Academy, and by all the Grammarians of eminence, who for nearly a century have laboured to ascertain and fix the true rules of the French Language. Another advantage, not less valuable, is, that almost all the phrases given as examples or exercises, being drawn from the Dictionary of the Academy or the most approved French writers, the Student of this Grammar will store his mind with none but pure and correct forms of speech, and will not be liable to contract vicious modes of expression, and imbibe error while aiming at instruction. The proprietors have been particularly careful with respect to the correctness and simplicity of the present Edition, which they have submitted to a strict revision, and which, on a comparison, will be found to surpass preceding Editions, both in the copiousness of its remarks and its general perspicuity. |