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Letter writing - Early works to 1800
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Familiar letters on various subjects of business and amusement. Written in a natural easy manner; And published principally for the Service of The Younger Part of Both Sexes; with a view To Form and Polish the Style; Improve the Understanding; and, by conveying Entertainment with Moral Instruction, to inculcate in them an early Taste for Epistolary Correspondence. Intended also as models, On which may easily be formed Proper Letters on the many Occurrences of Life, For the Use of those Persons who are desirous of writing Correct English and Good Sense on every Occasion. Together with The different Forms of writing Messages on Cards. By Charles Hallifax.
Hallifax, Charles.Date: [1765?]- Books
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The secretary's guide. In four parts. Part I. Containing Variety of Forms for inditing Letters upon any Subject whatsoever, in the most elegant and refined Stile now made use of: With Directions for giving the most proper Titles and Epithets to Persons of all Rank and Qualities. Part II. Choice Forms and preceedents for Writing Acquittances, Bills, Bonds, Judgments, Defeasances, Letters of Attorney, Deeds of Gifts, Wills, Assignments, Counter Securities, Bills of Sale, Letters of License, Indentures for Apprentices, inland and foreign Bills of Exchange, &c. Part III. An Account of Time, in Minutes, Hours, Days, Weeks, Months, and Years; with a Perpetual Almanack, shewing the Day of the Month for ever: Fixed Feasts and remarkable Days; a Table of Kings and Queens: Eclipses of the Sun and Moon, and their Causes, shewing when they will be eclipsed for ever. Also how to find the Moon's rising and setting at any Time: Signs of Weather; a Chronology from the Creation to this present Year. Tables of Annuities, Expences and Wages; an exact Catalogue of all the Roads and Post-Stages, with the Number of Miles The Method of the General-Post, shewing what Days Letters may be sent, and whither; with the Rates of the Carriage of the foreign and inland Letters: Also the Method of the Penny-Post, and several other Things necessary, &c. Part IV. A short, but comprehensive English Dictionary, alphabetically explaining all hard and difficult Words, &c. Written by G. F. gent.
G. F., gent., active 1734-1741.Date: [1741]- Books
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The complete letter-writer; or, polite English secretary. Containing familiar letters on the most common occasions in life. Also a variety of more elegant letters for examples and improvement of style, from the best modern Authors, together with many Originals, on Business, Duty, Amusement, Affection, Courtship, Marriage, Friendship, and Other Subjects. To which is prefix'd, a plain and compendious grammar of the English tongue. also Directions for writing Letters; And how to address Persons of all Ranks, either in Writing or Discourse; and some necessary Orthographical Directions. To which is now first added, a few select Letters, By the late Rev. Laurence Sterne and others. With some Observations on Letter-Writing, and of the Knowledge of the World, By the late Earl of Chesterfield, In his Advice to his Son.
Date: 1778- Books
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The instructive letter-writer, and entertaining companion: containing letters on the most interesting subjects, in an elegant and easy style; Wherein a peculiar Regard has been had to select those, Only, which are best adapted to inspire Noble and Manly Sentiments, and promote a Rational and Virtuous Conduct; Most of them being wrote by the following Royal and eminent Personages, and the best Authers, Antient and Modern, viz. Cicero, Brutus, Trajan, Pliny, Plutarch, Q. Ann Boleyn, K. Edward VI. K. Charles I. and His Queen, Queen Ann, Prince George of Denmark, Empress of Russia, Sir W. Raleigh, Duke & Dutchess of Marlbro', Mar. of Granby, Abp, Tillotson, Locke, Molyneux, Addison, Steele, Pope, Gay, Bishop Atterbury, Mr. & Mrs. Rowe, Dr. Blackwell, Richardson, Coleman, Murphy, &c. with forms of messages for cards. To which are prefix'd instructions for writing letters with elegance and propriety; Directions how to address Persons of all Ranks,; a plain and concise Grammar of the English Tongue; and some necessary Orthographical Directions.
Seymour, George.Date: 1765- Books
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Letters on the most common, as well as important, occasions in life. By Cicero, Pliny, Voiture, Balzac, St. Evremond, Locke, Lord Lansdowne, Lord Oxford, Lord Peterborough, Lord Bolingbroke, Sir William Temple, Sir W. Trumbull, Dryden, Atterbury, Garth, Addison, Steele, Pope, Gay, Swift, Berkley, Rowe, and other writers of distinguished merit; with many original letters and cards, by the editor: Who has also prefixed, A Dissertation on the Epistolary Style; With proper Directions for addressing Persons of Rank and Eminence. For the use of young gentlemen and ladies.
Newbery, John, 1713-1767.Date: 1758