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Watts's compleat spelling-book: In three parts. Part I. Containing Mr. Munday's new improvements for the right accenting of words, in variety of tables from one to seven syllables; with praxes on words of different syllables: also portions of scripture, from the Psalms, Proverbs and New Testament. Part II. Containeth the principles and rules of pronouncing our mother tongue, both in prose and verse, in great variety of examples, containing sure and easy directions for reading. Part III. Lessons for children, out of the historical parts of scripture; with a short history of England, from the Norman conquest, to His Present Majesty's accession to the throne: as also Mr. Clark's directions for writing the round hand, and round text, and the Italian hand; with several other things for the improvement of children, as well as those of riper years. The whole being generally approved of, was compiled and designed for the use of schools, in Great-Britain and Ireland.
Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.Date: M,DCC,LXVIII. [1768]- Books
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The english instructor: or, the art of spelling improved. Being a more Plain, Easy, and Regular Method of Teaching Young Children, than any extant. In two parts. The First, - Containing Monosyllables, expressing the most natural and easy Things to the Apprehensions of Children; with Common Words, and Scripture Proper Names, alphabetically ranged, with their proper Accent, and divided according to the Rules of Orthography. The Second, - Being an Instruction more particularly designed for Children of an higher Class, such as have not only made some Advances in their Reading, but are capable of understanding and applying the Rules there given; and contains Observations on the Sound of Letters, with the Use of true Pointing, and other Things necessary for an English Scholar. To which is added, A Method of Instruction, Out of the Sacred Writings and the Catechism of our Church. The Whole being intermixed with Variety of Exercises in Prose and Verse, adapted to the Capacities of Children, and designed as well to instruct them in the Duties of Religion, as to render the initiatory Part of Education easy, profitable, and delightful. The twenty-third edition, with great improvements, including the supplement, being precepts for children, in initation of Lily's Qui mihi. For the use of schools. By Henry Dixon, School-Master, in Bath.
Dixon, Henry.Date: 1760- Books
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The little spelling book for young children.
Trimmer, Sarah, 1741-1810.Date: M.DCC.XCIV [1794]- Books
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A spelling-Dictionary of the English language, on a new plan, For the Use of Young Gentlemen, Ladies, and Foreigners. Being an introductary part of The circle of the sciences. Published by the King's Authority.
Newbery, John, 1713-1767.Date: [1760]- Books
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A concise spelling book, for the use of children. In three parts. I. The letters, with tables of words, from one to eight Syllables; and Four Tables of Proper Names. I. Practical Lessons, in Prose and Verse, with Tables interspersed, collected from the Lessons. - Also, A Table of Words having Silent Letters, and other difficulties in reading. II. Some Observations on the Principles of the English Language. - Words changed in Sound and Sense by e final. - A few Contractions explained. - A small Collection of Words, the same in Pronunciation, but different in Spelling and Signification. - Numbers expressed by Letters and Figures. - To which are subjoined, the Old English Characters. By James Gray, Master of the English School of Peebles.
Gray, James, -1810.Date: M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]