Outlines of the veterinary art; or, a treatise on the anatomy, physiology, and curative treatment of the diseases of the horse : and subordinately, of those of neat cattle and sheep illustrated by surgical and anatomical plates / Delabere Blaine.

  • Blaine, Delabere (Delabere Pritchett), 1770-1845.
Date:
1841
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Credit: Outlines of the veterinary art; or, a treatise on the anatomy, physiology, and curative treatment of the diseases of the horse : and subordinately, of those of neat cattle and sheep illustrated by surgical and anatomical plates / Delabere Blaine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    %: PUBLISHED BY WHUTTARER AND CO., AVE-MARIA-LANE, LONDON, GENERAL RRENCH-ENGLISH and ENGLISH-FRENCH DICTIONARY NEWL¥ COMPOSED FROM THE FRENCH DICTIONARIES OF THE FRENCH ACADEMY, LAVEAUX , BOISTE, BESCHERELLE, ETO. FROM THE ENGLISH DICTIONARIES GF j ~ JOHNSON, WEBSTER, RICHARDSON, ETC. AND THE SPECIAL DICTIONARILS AND WORKS OF BOTH LANGUAGES containing a considerable number of words not to be found in other dictionaries and giving: 1. all words in general use and those employed in the literature of the two \ languages , comprising those of the present time ; — 2. the principal terms employed in __ the army and navy, the sciences, the arts, the manufactures, and trade, especially those 4 contained in the Dictionary of the French Academy ;— 3. the compounds of words in most ‘4 general use and those that are not translated literally; — 4, the various acceptations of the words in their logical order, separated by numbers; — 5. a short example of the ordinary or literary acceptations that present any difficulty to the student; — 6. the modification of the sense of words by the addition of adjectives, prepositions, adverbs, etc. ; _ -—7. the idioms and familiar phraseology most generally used; — 8. the prepositions governed by verbs, adjectives, ete.; — 9. the irregularities of the pronunciation, those of verbs, of the plurals of nouns, adjectives, etc.;— 10. observations on words presenting «grammatical difficulties; With signs showing the literal or figurative use, antiquated words, or those but little employed and the kind of style, followed bya general vocabulary of mythological and geographical names, and those of persuns which differ in the two languages. a By Dr. SPEERS WNGLISH PROFESSOR AT THE NATIONAL COLLEGE OF BONAPARTE (PARIS), THE NATIONAL SCHOOL OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, ETC., author of the Study of Englsh Poetry and of the Manual of Commercial Terms in English and French. Each dictionary, one containing 712, the vther 615 pages, royal 8vo., treble columns, is sold ; separately. Price: Schuol editiun 10s. 6d. Library edition 12s. 6d. cloth lettered WORK ADOPTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF FRANCE FOR FRENCH COLLEGES. 2ND EDITION Lraspecles. Professor Spiers’s English and French dictionary had, before the publication of the French-English part, reached a second edition, had been adopted by the Uni- versity of France for the use of French colleges and had received the approbation of the Institute of France; it is, as it professes to be, an original work; it was com- menced in 1835 under the auspices of the French Ministers of Public Instruction and of Public Works; it is the result of the uninterrupted and conscientious labour of fourteen years and it has been enriched by the contributions of several of the most eminent men of both England and France. Monsieur Blanqui, member of the Institute of France has said : ‘‘ Professor Spiers’s dictionary is a repertory worthy _ of the two languages and of the two countries.” The public is not sufficiently aware that new dictionaries of the two languages are generally reprints of Boyer, a work published in 1699, the French and En- glish of wnich are consequently a hundred and fifty years old and from which the greater part of the words since formed are necessarily excluded; added to _ which Boyer’s French is by no means pure and his English extremely foreign A few examples will show that this criticism is not unduly severe. The defini. _ tions of things supposed to.be unknown to foreigners are so literally transeribed _ that the Louvre is still, in most dictionaries, the palace of the king of France in Paris, which it has ceased to be at least a century and a quarter. At the words Trowsmrs, F WAISTCOAT , WHISKER, when they are to be found, the student may meet with va- rious words more or less French ; but among these he must not hope to find the only French equivalents pantalon, gilet, favori. When terms so familiar as these are . s | wanting what can he expected as to literary or scientific words, especially the latter, an immense number of which are of our own century. As Boyer was pub- lished before Johnson , the admirable order of the latter is not observed; so that to the other difficulties must be added that of inextricable confusion; the ac- * ceptations of words the most distant from each other being huddled together without # figure or » mark of any kind to show that they are not synonymes of the same sense. Let a French student look for the word biére and he will find bier, coffin, beer. Ilow is he to distinguish between things so different? =