Vie de George Washington

A. N. (Arsène Napoléon) Girault, Anna C Reed

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GEORGE WASHINGTON.
PRIS DE ET DÉDIÉ AL'ANGLAIS, LA JEUNESSE
AMÉRICAINE,
PAR A. N. GIRAULT,
du PensionnatPrincipal Français de Jetnies Demoiselles à
JV.Bordentown, J.
DIXIÈME ÉDITION.
PTfTLjWELPHŒ:
HENRY PERKINS, 134 CIIESTNUT STREET.
BOSTON:
IVES & DENfrET, 114 WASHINGTON ST.
1840.Entbked to Act of in theaccording Congress, year 1835, by
Henry Perkins,
fai the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Ëaiitern District
of PeiiiiiSjivaiiia.
HI.VTI K-S. PHIl-APREFACE ~R4Hf-
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TO THE FOURTH EDITION".
booksOf sll the used in thegenerally teaching
French none to the oflangage, appears compiler
this suitable for thebiographv altogether purpose.
CharlesHe thinKs Voltaire's Histoire de XII. and
Siècle de Louis XIV. above the of
capacity juvénile
and Gil Blaslearners, unfit to be inentirely placed
their hands. The use of Telemachus as a French
class-book he does most evencondemn,decidedly
at the risk of accused of Itsbeing heresy.literary
and can bevery élégant poetical language only
mature and Frenchappreciated by minds, good
scholars. It in the reader a know-requires greater
of than can be from chil-
ledge mythology expected
dren: its is not calculated to interest orsubject
it be in-improve them, unless, indeed, seriously
tended to teacli the of thisyouth mighty republic
how a should his Theking govern subjects. work,
is extensive and it must be obvious tobesides, ; ail,
that French students should read a of small
variety
3withso as to become the différentbooks, acquainted
of conversa-narration,styles history, description,
&c. To the works of De Detion, Genlis, Guizot,
the on theChoiseul, &c, compiler objects ground
been written for the
that, having expressly youth
of cannot the same attractionsFrance, they possess
for those of this whose tastes and habits
country,
are so unless hère with suit-différent, republished
able altérations.
of Vie deThe first édition the wasWashington
as a substitute for such woiks as those
prepared
referred to above and the favourable
; very réception
—it met with three éditions been exhaustedhaving
—in less than a convinced the thatcompileryear
of his brother teachers coincided with hismany
views. In the of this fourth édition,préparation
neither care nor has been to renderexpense spared
it still more of At theworthy gênerai approbation.
severalof teachers,suggestion experienced passages
and theirhâve been suppressed, places supplied
facts and incidents. Thehistoricalby interesting
errors which had atten-few typographical escaped
tion in the first two were removed in theéditions,
third and it is believed that this édition
; confidently
will be found to be rree from them.entirely