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English language - Early works to 1800
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Tales, epistles, odes, fables, &c. With translations from Homer and other antient authors. To which are added Proposals for perfecting the English language.
Cooke, Thomas, 1703-1756.Date: M.DCCXXIX. [1729]- Books
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Reasons for an English education, by teaching the youth of both sexes the arts of grammar, rhetoric, poetry, and logic. In their own mother-tongue.
Brightland, John, -1717.Date: 1711- Books
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A letter to James Boswell, Esq. With some remarks on Johnson's Dictionary, and on language, &c.
Date: 1792- Books
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The New expositor: Containing tables of words from two, to seven syllables, inclusive; accented extplained, and divided according to the most approved method of pronunciation: for the use of schools.
Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]- Books
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The circles of Gomer or, an essay towards an investigation and introduction of the English, as an universal language, upon the first principles of speech, according to its hieroglyfic signs, argrafic, archetypes, and superior pretensions to originality; a retrieval of original knowledge; and a re-union of nations and opinions on the like principles, as well as the e[vi]dence of ancient writers; With an English grammar, some illustrations of the subjects of the author's late essays, and other interesting discoveries. By Row. Jones, Esq.
Jones, Rowland, 1722-1774.Date: 1771