Excerpt from Dufief's Nature Displayed 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, Vol. 1: Adapted to the Spanish; Containing the Spanish Language, La Gramatica Inglesa, and the English Reader The {first vocabulary is that of the names of objects which most frequently occur in conversation the gender has been carefully affix ed to each of them. To every word is adapted a familiar phrase, such as is often used with the word. This familiar phrase renders the funda mental words in each vocabulary more striking in the same manner as an elegant frame renders the picture it contains more conspicuous. Some verbs, with appropriate phrases, following particular nouns, are designed to describe the actions which those very nouns might natu rally bring to the mind on being pronounced, and, on that account, they become a valuable addition to the vocabulary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.