Authority Cited: Manger's [Mauger] French Gram.
Author name and dates: Claude Mauger (d.1688?) Corrected to Mauger's French Grammar in 5th Dict. edition.
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BKG Bio-tweet: Professor of languages in Paris;
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: SJ adds one Manger (Mauger) cite in the in 1773 Dict. with a quote from a children's book under govern. The edition used by SJ is unknown. The first London edition was 1653. The quote was not found in the 1688 or 1708 edition of the Grammar. Perhaps SJ remembered the rhyme, but misattributed the quote.]
Claudius Mauger's French grammar with additions. Enriched with new words, and a new method, and all the improvements of that famous language, as it now flourishing at the Court of France. Where is to be seen an extraordinary and methodical order for the acquisition of that tongue, viz. A most modish pronunciation, the conjugation of irregular verbs, short and substantial rules; to which are subjoined a vocabulary, and a most exact new grammar of the English tongue with all advantages that may make it desirable to foreigners, The one and twentieth edition, exactly corrected and enlarged by the author, late professor of the languages at Paris, 1708, London: Printed for R. Wellington, and are to be sold by Tho. Guy, at the Oxford-Arms in Lombard-street; govern
1773 Dict. entry: Manger's [Mauger's] French Grammar; govern
"Listen, children, unto me,
And let this your lesson be,
In our language evermore,
Words that govern go before."
Author name and dates: Claude Mauger (d.1688?) Corrected to Mauger's French Grammar in 5th Dict. edition.
PORTRAIT
BKG Bio-tweet: Professor of languages in Paris;
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: SJ adds one Manger (Mauger) cite in the in 1773 Dict. with a quote from a children's book under govern. The edition used by SJ is unknown. The first London edition was 1653. The quote was not found in the 1688 or 1708 edition of the Grammar. Perhaps SJ remembered the rhyme, but misattributed the quote.]
Claudius Mauger's French grammar with additions. Enriched with new words, and a new method, and all the improvements of that famous language, as it now flourishing at the Court of France. Where is to be seen an extraordinary and methodical order for the acquisition of that tongue, viz. A most modish pronunciation, the conjugation of irregular verbs, short and substantial rules; to which are subjoined a vocabulary, and a most exact new grammar of the English tongue with all advantages that may make it desirable to foreigners, The one and twentieth edition, exactly corrected and enlarged by the author, late professor of the languages at Paris, 1708, London: Printed for R. Wellington, and are to be sold by Tho. Guy, at the Oxford-Arms in Lombard-street; govern
1773 Dict. entry: Manger's [Mauger's] French Grammar; govern
"Listen, children, unto me,
And let this your lesson be,
In our language evermore,
Words that govern go before."