i

IN HER MODE

OF

TEACHING LANGUAGE TO MAN;

OR,

A NEW AND INFALLIBLE METHOD

OF

ACQUIRING A LANGUAGE IN THE SHORTEST TIME POSSIBLE,
DEDUCED FROM THE ANALYSIS OF THE HUMAN MIND,

AND,

CONSEQUENTLY SUITED TO EVERY CAPACITY.

ADAPTED TO THE FRENCH.

BY N. G. DUFIEF,

OF PHILADELPHIA.

Languages were not made by rules or art, but by accident, and the common
use of the people.

LOCKE.

Il y a eu des poëtes & des orateurs, avant qu'on imaginât de faire des
grammaires, des poëtiques & des rhétoriques.

CONDILLAC.

On ne peut apprendre la grammaire d'une langue quelconque, même celle de

son pays, que quand on sait parler, que quand on sait causer.

VOL. I.

CONTAINING

THE CONVERSATION PHRASES.

SICARD.

PHILADELPHIA :

PRINTED BY THOMAS L. PLOWMAN,
FOR THE AUTHOR, NO. 47, NORTH THIRD STREET.

1804.

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