Materials for German Prose Composition, Or, Selecions from Modern English Writers: With Grammatical Notes, Idiomatic Renderings of Difficult Phrases, Essentials of German Syntax, Preliminary Chapters on Punctuation and the Division of Words in German, and a Grammatical IndexG. Bell, 1891 - 276 páginas |
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Materials for German Prose Composition, Or, Selecions from Modern English ... Charles Adolphus Buchheim Visualização completa - 1891 |
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