raphy. Wherein Each Language is Set forth in its Greatest Latitude: The Various Senses of Words, both Proper and Figurative,
Are Orderly Digested; And Illustrated with Apposite Phrases, and Proverbs: The Hard Words Explained; And the Proprieties Adjusted.
To Which are Prefixed The Grounds of Both Languages, in Two Grammatical Discourses; The One
English, and the Other
French. By Guy Miege, Gent.
London: Printed by
J. Redmayne, for
Tho. Basset, at the George near St. Dunstan’s Church in Fleet-street.
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4, f
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Lowndes III, 1548.
Hazlitt III, 160.
STC M2012.
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1449.
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Dufief’s Dictionary
Fr.
Eng.
3. v.
p. 8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 165, no. 82, Dictionary Fr. Eng. by Dufief, 3 v 8vo.
DUFIEF,
Nicolas Gouin.
A New Universal and Pronouncing Dictionary of the
French and
English Languages: Containing above Fifty Thousand terms and names not to be found in the Dictionaries of Boyer, Perry, Nugent, Tocquot,
or any other Lexicographer. To which is added, A Vast Fund of Other Information, equally beneficial and instructive, never
before published in any work of this kind. For the use of The
French and
English Student, the Divine, Civilian, Lawyer, Justice of the Peace, Physician, Surgeon, Mineralogist, Chemist, Botanist, Agriculturalist,
Apothecary, Mariner, Soldier, Merchant, Banker, Mathematician, Natural Philosopher, Astronomer, Geographer, Historian, Antiquary,
Biographer, Architect, Printer, Painter, Manufacturer, Mechanic; and, in fine, For the Benefit of all who may consider a knowledge
of either Language an acquisition in their respective situations in life. By N. G. Dufief, Author of “Nature Displayed in her Mode of teaching Language to Man, applied to the
French Language.” In
Three Volumes. Vol. I [-III].
Philadelphia: Printed by
T. & G. Palmer, and for sale by the Principal Booksellers.
1810.
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in consequence of the Revolution; vol. II, 362 leaves,
English,
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English title on the recto of the second.
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The Table of Contents in Vol. III begins with a Dictionary of Sea Terms and Phrases, French and English, and ends with the
French Republican Calendar, which is preceded by a Chronological Table of Remarkable