Martel's elements : Containing, I. New essays on education, relative, especially, to history, moral philosophy, and composition. II. An introduction to the French language, by means of a literal translation of the first hundred pages of this book, the conjugation of the verbs, and some familiar phrases. III. A selection of delicate bon-mots, anecdotes, sentences, sentiments, thoughts, play on words, anagrams, witticisms, devices, puns, jokes, apologues, happy applications of passages in famous writers, stories, ingenious repartees; but having nothing of what might alarm modesty or excite condemnable laughter upon the objects of our duties and of our respect, which, certainly, is not the case in the books now in the hands of youth, to learn French by. : Copy-right secured according to law.

Author/creator Martel, Michael
Other author Alston, Theodosia Burr, 1783-1813 dedicatee.
Other author Maverick, P. R. (Peter Rushton), 1755-1811, engraver.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew-York : Printed by C.C. Van Alen, & Co. for Michael Martel, 1796[-1797]
Description2 volumes : illustrations ; 17 cm (12mo)
Supplemental ContentEvans Digital Edition
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SeriesEarly American imprints. First series ; no. 30740. ^A478749
Early American imprints. First series ; no. 32425. ^A478749
General noteTitle and imprint of v. 2 (Evans 32425) vary: Martel's elements; containing a choice of the most interesting traits in ancient & modern history, parallels of philosophers, statesmen & heroes, a collection of thoughts from the best authors, in prose, and a great variety of examples of all sorts of poetry in French ... Newyork: Printed for the author, 1797.
General noteDedicated to Theodosia Burr.
General noteFrontispiece engraved by Peter Maverick.
General noteVol. 1: xvii, [2], 20-480, 112 p.; v. 2: [2], 139-660 p.
General notePages 139-480 of v. 1 are textually and typographically identical with p. 139-480 of v. 2.
General noteErrors in paging: v. 1, p. 265, 346, 348, 389 misnumbered 256, 345, 358, 386; v. 2, p. 346, 348, 389 misnumbered 345, 358, 386.
References Evans 30740
References Evans 32425
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Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 30740).
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 32425).
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