The Wise and Ingenious Companion, French and English;: or, A Collection of the Wit of the Illustrious Persons, Both Ancient and ModernBoyer, Abel
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The Wise and Ingenious Companion, French and English;: or, A Collection of the Wit of the Illustrious Persons, Both Ancient and Modern
Boyer, Abel
Anecdotes; Wit and humor
The Compleat _French_-Master, for Ladies and Gentlemen. Containing,
I. A New Methodical _French_ Grammar. II. A Large and Copious
Vocabulary. III. Familiar Phrases, with the Niceties of the
_French_ Tongue. IV. Familiar Dialogues. V. Dialogues of Wit and
Humour, upon Love, and other Subjects. The Six last done out of
_Spanish_. By Mr. _Savage_. For the use of His Highness, the Duke
of _Glocester_. By Mr. _Boyer_, Author of the _Royal Dictionary_.
The Second Edition, Corrected and much Enlarged.
The History of the Buccaneers of _America_: From their first
Original down to this Time. Written in several Languages, and
now Collected into one Volume. The Whole newly Translated into
_English_, and Illustrated with Twenty five Copper Plates. _Octavo._
A new Survey of the _West-Indies_, being a Journal of Three
thousand and three hundred Miles within the Main Land of _America_.
By _Tho. Gage_, the only Protestant that was ever known to have
Travell’d those Parts. The Fourth Edition enlarg’d by the Author.
With an Accurate Map. _Octavo._
The History of _Portugal_; from the first Ages of the World to the
late Revolution, under King _John_ the Fourth, in the Year 1640.
Written in _Spanish_ by _Emanuel de Faria y’ Souso_, Knight of the
Order of Christ. Translated and continued down to this Year, by
Capt. _John Stevens_. _Octavo._
_There is in the Press, and will be speedily Published_,
A Dictionary of the _Roman_ and _Greek_ Antiquities. Written by
_Peter Danett_ for the use of the _Dauphin_, Duke of _Burgundy_,
_Anjou_ and _Berry_. Translated into _English_ for the use of
Schools.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
Original spelling and grammar have generally been retained, with
some exceptions noted below. This fact is especially noteworthy
herein, as this book exhibits great variety in spelling and
grammar, and much of it differs greatly from modern usage. There
are many variations that may be regarded as probable typographical
errors, which nevertheless have been retained. Original _ſ_ (now
Unicode U+17f) has been changed to _s_ throughout; and original
_ß_ (U+df) have been changed to _ss_. Original italics look _like
this_. The transcriber produced the cover image and hereby assigns
it to the public domain. Scanned images of the original pages are
available from archive.org — search for “wiseingeniouscom00boye”.
The original pagination has been discarded. The book was comprised
of English text on verso (left-hand) pages, and corresponding
French text on recto (right-hand) pages. The pagination was
unusual, in that the first printed page of the book — the English
title page — occurred on a verso page. This page was unnumbered,
but shall be counted in this discussion as page i. Page ii
displayed the French title page. A Prefatory Introduction started
on page iii, verso. The last page of introductory material fell
on page xiv, recto. The first chapter, The Apophthegms of the
Ancients, fell on the first numbered page (1), verso.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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