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Youth - Conduct of life - Early works to 1800
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A new academy of compliments: or the compleat English secretary. Containing the true art of indicting letters, suitable to the capacity of youth and age. Relating to familiar Conversation between Friends and Acquaintance, Husband and Wife, Children and Parents, Masters and Apprentices, Brothers and Sisters, and Kindred in general; also, Love-Letters on all Occasions; with others relating to Trade and Business of all Natures, being suited in an apt, easy, and plain Stile. Likewise Instructions for Directing, Superscribing, and Subscribing of Letters; also the Tides of Persons of Quality, and all other Degrees. With Dialogues very witty and pleasant, relating to Love, Familiar Discourse, and other Matters, for the improving the Elegancy of the English Speech, and Accomplishment in Discourse. To which is added, I. The art of good breeding and behaviour, with Instructions for Carving Fish, Flesh and Fowl, after the newest Manner. 2. The English Fortune-Teller, as to what relates to good and bad Fortune in Maids, Widows, Widowers and Batchelors. 3. Joyful Tydings to the Female Sex. 4. A Treatise of Moles, 5. The Interpretation of Dreams. 6. The Comical Humours of the joyial London Gossips, in a Dialogue between a Maid, a Wife, and a Widow, over a Cup of the Creature. With a collection of the newest play-house songs.
Scougal, Henry, 1650-1678.Date: 1748- Books
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The way of living in a method, and by rule; or, a regular way of employing our time; recommended In a short, plain, practical Discourse to the Charity-Schools, for the Use of the Youth brought up in them. By a presbyter of the Church of England.
Presbyter of the Church of England.Date: [1775]- Books
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The beauties of history; or, pictures of virtue and vice, drawn from real life; designed as an introduction to the art of thinking and reflection. Wherein the Intertainment as Well as Instruction of the Reader is Particularly Consulted. By L. M. Stretch, M.A. In two volumes. Vol. II. To which is prefixed, an introductory tract on education, Respecting Young Ladies as Well as Gentlemen. By Samuel Whyte, Principal of the English Grammar School.
Date: M,DCC,LXXV. [1775]- Books
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Counsels of prudence for the use of young people. A discourse on the wisdom of the serpent and the innocence of the dove: ... By Nathaniel Lardner.
Lardner, Nathaniel, 1684-1768.Date: 1743- Books
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The young man's calling: or the whole duty of youth. In a serious and compassionate address to all young persons to remember their Creator in the days of their Youth. Together with Remarks upon the lives of several excellent young persons of both Sexes, as well Ancient as Modern, Noble and others, who have been famous for Piety and Vertue in their Generations. With Twelve curious Pictures, Illustrating the several Histories. Also Divine Poems.
Crossman, Samuel, 1624?-1684.Date: 1713