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French translator, or, The art of translating English into French

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French translator, or, The art of translating English into French
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Description	Containing an introduction, with the French interlined, composed of interesting anecdotes, followed by copious and elegant extracts, forming a course of English literature ; the whole beginning with a short treatise on translation, and terminating by a grammatical dictionary, intended to shew the manner of translating English into French, by comparing the genius of both languages. By Gabriel Surenne.
Shelfmark	ABS.1.76.73
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record
Attribution and copyright:	Public Domain - This work is free of known copyright restrictions. For details visit our copyright page. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Form / genre:	Written and printed matter > Books
Dates / events:	1828 [Date published]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > Scotland > Edinburgh > Edinburgh (inhabited place) [Place printed]
Subject / content:	French (language) Composition (artistic arrangement) Exercises
Person / organisation:	Surenne, Gabriel, -1858 [Author] Oliver and Boyd (Edinburgh, Scotland) [Printer] Oliver and Boyd (Edinburgh, Scotland) [Printer]
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