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CONTENTS OF BOOK THIRD.
Difference between the English and French verbs in their
government
A list of verbs which require after them a preposition in
French, though they have none in English
193
A list of verbs which take after them no preposition in
French, though they have one in English
A list of verbs which require after them in French a diffe-
rent preposition to that in English
Verbs in their relation to each other in the infinitive mood-
A list of verbs which require after them the preposition" de"
before another verb in the infinitive
195
199
200
A list of verbs which require after them the preposition "à”
201
A list of verbs which require no preposition after them
202
The participle past
208
Peculiar forms assumed by the French verbs, or, idiomatic
How to use the French verbs in colloquial style
Essays on conversation
Idioms
A list of Idioms of most common occurrence
Exercises on idioms arranged in series and groups
Series
212
213
218
221
222
224
Groups
234
Some idiomatic expressions of daily occurrence
Some more idiomatic expressions most in use
Proverbs, or common sayings, which correspond pretty well
A second list of idioms given as materials for exercises to be
made up in French
A finishing series of free exercises French and English, espe-
cially chosen for practice in the use of tenses
251
254
Lettre d'un enfant à sa mère :-N.
327
English sentences to be turned into French
Third Essay.
Le travail est un trésor:- N.
328
Fourth Essay.
329
Ulysse à Télémaque:-Fénélon
330
Fifth Essay.
L'Arabe et sa Marmite :-N.
Thales's replies. N.
Sixth Essay.
Le bonheur consiste à se contenter de peu :—
-N.
381
Dernière allocution de Napoléon à sa garde
A dialogue between a husband and his wife :-Miss Maria
339
340
Troisième Essai.
Edgeworth
La patrie:-E. Souvestre
342
Wellington, the morning after Waterloo
343
Cinquième Essai.
Francois 1er et Charles-Quint :-N.
344
William the Third's health :-Macaulay
345
Sixième Essai.
Neuvième Essai.
350
The conscience :-Erskine
Les plaisirs de la campagne :-Bernardin de St. Pierre.
Titus and the Temple of Jerusalem :- -Milman
Dixième Essai.
Dialogue entre Athalie et Joas :-Jean Racine
Alexander's march through the desert:-Thirlwall.
THIRD SERIES.
351
352
353
354
355
L'homme:-Pascal
Charles-Quint et les brigands :-N.
A strange room in a lone farm-house :-N
On the decease of the Duke of Wellington :-Disraeli.`
Débarquement des Normands en Angleterre :-Thierry
Execution of Ridley and Latimer :- Goldsmith
365
367
Septième Essai.
368
369
Huitième Essai.
370
371
Portrait de Fénélon, archevêque de Cambrai :-de Lamar-
tine
Supper of a French peasant:-Stern
376
378
Deuxième Essai.
Portrait de Danton:-Mignet
379
Remarks on Francis the First and the Emperor Charles:-
Robertson
380.
On being reminded of his birthday :-Dr. Johnson
Louis Seize, la veille de son exécution :-A. Thiers.
Portrait of Washington:-T. Jefferson
Le gourmand:-La Bruyère
Lavalette escaping from prison :-Percy
385
387
388
389
Venise :-Madame de Staël
390
A part of the history of a philosophic vagabond :— Oliver
Goldsmith
391
Charles ler, Roi d'Angleterre, quelques heures avant son
Gil Blas devient le favori de l'archevêque de Grenade :—
398
400
402
408
404