262 results filtered with: English language - Grammar - Early works to 1800
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A short introduction to English grammar: with critical notes.
Lowth, Robert, 1710-1787.Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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Gramatica que contiene reglas faciles para pronunciar, y aprender metodicamente la lengua inglesa, con muchas observaciones, y notas criticas de los mas celebres Autores puramente Ingleses, especialmente de Lowth, Priestley, y Trinder. Compuesta por el P. Fr. Thomás Connelly, Religioso Dominico, y Confesor de la Familia de S. M. C. de orden superior.
Connelly, Thomas.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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The female miscellany: in two parts. Part I. Containing a sketch of English grammar; an abridgement of the holy history; a small collection of fables. &c. Part II. Consisting of a series of letters addressed to a young lady who has made some progress in reading. For the use of a boarding school.
Date: 1770-1771- Books
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An easy English grammar; for the use of schools. In three parts. I. A short and plain Explanation of all the Parts of Speech, and their Agreement and government reduced to Grammatical Rules; the whole illustrated with Notes, and parsing Examples in which every Word is resolved at Length. II. Additional Remarks and observations on the several Particulars of the first part; with Rules of Composition, or the proper Arrangement of Words in Sentences. III. Exercises of bad English in two Parts. The First suited to the particular Parts of Speech, and the Rules of Construction. - The Second contains a large Collection of promiscuous Exercises in Prose and Verse. By A Murray, Schoolmaster.
Murray, Alexander, schoolmaster.Date: 1787- Books
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An essay on grammar, as it may be applied to the English language. In two treatises. The one speculative, being an attempt to investigate proper principles. The other practical, containing definitions and rules deduced from the principles, and illustrated by a variety of examples from the most approved writers. A new edition. By William Ward, A.M. master of the Grammar-School at Beverley in the county of York.
Ward, William, 1708 or 1709-1772.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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Chambaud improved ; or, French and English exercises, with their respective grammar-rules at the Head of each Chapter and Exercise. The Rules compendiously extracted, exemplified, and the whole improved. By James Nicholson, Master Of Languages.
Chambaud, Lewis, -1776.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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Dissertations grammatical and philological. By Peter Walkden Fogg. (N.B. These Dissertations are contained in the second volume of Elementa Anglicana; but are thus printed separately to accommodate such as may wish to peruse them without the rest of the work; particularly to serve as lessons for pupils, to whose hands the Key cannot with propriety be committed.)
Fogg, Peter Walkden.Date: 1796- Books
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The rudiments of English grammar, adapted to the use of schools; with notes and observations, for the use of those who have made some proficiency in the language. By Joseph Priestley, L. L. D. F. R. S.
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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Methodus græcam linguam docendi, (multâ grammaticorum arte omissâ) ad Puerorum Captum Accommodata, Et ab Edwardo Leedes, (cui id Rei creditum est intra Scholam Buriensem, in Pago Suffolciensi) In Usum Discipulorum tradita.
Leedes, Edward, 1627-1707.Date: 1720- Books
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Grammatica anglo-lusitanica & lusitano anglica: or, a new grammar, English and Portuguese, and Portuguese and English; Divided into two Parts: The First, for the Instruction of the English, who are desirous to attain a Knowledge of the Portuguese Language. The Second, for the Use of the Portuguese, who desire to be Instructed in the English Tongue. By J. Castro, Mestre e Traductor de ambas as Linguas.
Castro, J., writing master.Date: 1770- Books
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Dictionnaire des particules angloises, Précédé d'une grammaire raisonnée. Ouvrage dans lequel toutes les difficultés de la langue sont applanies; & où l'on trouvera tous les moyens de l'entendre & de l'écrire en peu de temps: le tout rapporté à l'usage. Par M.L.F.
Lefebvre de Villebrune, Jean-Baptiste, 1732-1809.Date: M.DCC.LXXIV. [1774]- Books
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A compendious grammar: in which the principles of the English Language are methodically digested into plain and easy rules: illustrated by exercises of true and false syntax. With Notes, and Observations, explaining the Terms of Grammar, and improving its Use.
Meikleham, William, 1770 or 1771-1846.Date: MDCCXCV. [1795]- Books
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Rudiments of English grammar; being an introduction to the second part of The grammatical institute of the English language: compiled at the desire of the committee of the grammar school in Hartford. By Noah Webster, jun. Esq. Published according to statute.
Webster, Noah, 1758-1843.Date: 1790- Books
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Dissertations on the English language: with notes, historical and critical, to which is added, by way of appendix, an essay on a reformed mode of spelling, with Dr. Franklin's arguments on that subject. By Noah Webster, Jun. Esquire. [Two lines in Latin from Tacitus]
Webster, Noah, 1758-1843.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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A practical introduction to English grammar; To which is added a short system of rhetoric and an essay on composition. By A: Crocker, master of the English and Mathematical School, in Frome.
Crocker, A. (Abraham).Date: M,DCC,LXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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Mystagogus Lillianus: or, a practical comment upon Lilly's Accidence According to the Most Celebrated Grammarians and Criticks, both Ancient and Modern. Whereby The Obscurities of that System are effectually clear'd, its Errors rectified, and its Defects supplied. To which is added, by way of appendix, a resolution of the conjugations into the most easy and commodius method, even according to Lilly's Scheme; together with the Rules of forming the Tenses at large, in the most plain and certain Manner: for the use of schools. By William Hamilton, Schoolmaster in Burre-Street below the Tower.
Hamilton, William (Teacher)Date: MDCCXII. [1712]- Books
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The english tutor: in two parts. I. A spelling-book, Containing Large Tables of Words, from One to Eight Syllables, regularly ranged from the easiest to the most difficult; with a separate Table of Examples to illustrate each Rule. Proper Names of Persons and Places: Words alike in Sound, but different in Signification and Spelling, &c. II. An English grammar, With Notes; Containing Concise, but plain and comprehensive, Rules, for speaking or writing English correctly: Free from all unnecessary Difficulties; and the most useful Rules distinguished, by the Print, from the less useful. To which is added, a suitable appendix. The whole compiled from the best Authorities, methodized and interspersed with new Observations.
Date: M.DCC.XLVII. [1747]- Books
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A letter to the governors, instructors and trustees of the universities, and other seminaries of learning, in the United States, on the errors of English grammars. By Noah Webster, Jun.
Webster, Noah, 1758-1843.Date: 1798- Books
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A short abstract of English grammar, calculated for the introduction of young people of both sexes, into that very necessary, but ('till of late) much neglected part of education. By the Rev. Mr. R. Green. of Durham, And particularly designed for the Use of his Academy there.
Green, R. (Robert), Rev. Mr.Date: 1779- Books
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The english verb; a grammatical essay, in the didactive form. By Mr. White.
White, James, of Cecil Street, Strand.Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]- Books
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A practical new grammar, with exercises of bad English: or, an easy guide to speaking and writing the English language properly and correctly. Containing, I. Orthography; or True Spelling, which treats of the Sounds and Uses of the several Letters in all Positions; of the Division of Words into Syllables, and the Use of Points. II. Prosody; or the Art of Pronouncing Syllables in Words truly, with Tables of Words properly accented. III. Etymology; or the Kinds of Words, which explains the several Parts of Speech; their Derivations and different Endings; Change and Likeness to one another. IV. Syntax; or Construction, which teaches how to connect Words aright in a Sentence, or Sentences together. To which is added, a Curious and Useful appendix. The fifteenth edition, Enlarged and much Improved. By A Fisher.
Fisher, A. (Anne), 1719?-1778.Date: 1795- Books
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Logic, ontology, and the art of poetry; being the fourth and fifth volumes of the Circle of the sciences. Considerably enlarged, and greatly improved.
Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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Rudiments of English grammar, for the use of schools. By the Rev. Henry St. John Bullen, B. A. of Trin. Coll. Cambridge, and First Assistant Master at the Grammar School, Bury St. Edmund's.
Bullen, Henry St. John, 1772 or 1773-1836.Date: 1797- Books
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A practical English grammar, with exercises of bad spelling and bad English: or, a plain and easy guide to speaking and writing the English language with accuracy and correctness. Containing, I. Orthography; or the Nature of True Spelling, with the Sounds of the Letters in all States; of the Division of Words into Syllables, and the right Use of Points. II. Prosody; or the Art of pronouncing the Parts or Syllables in Words, correctly, with more extensive Tables of Words properly accented than any Book of the Kind extant. III. Etymology; explaining the different Parts of Speech, the Derivation of Words, their different Endings, Change and Likeness. IV. Syntax; which teaches how to connect Words aright in a Sentence, or Sentences together. V. Etymology and syntax; exemplified in shewing the Parts of Speech of every Word, in several Pieces of English; with Reference to all the Rules, and Reasons why they are so. Together with Abbreviations, Epistolary Correspondence, Affinity in Words in an extensive Manner, Emphasis, Versification, and the Nature of Rhetorical Tropes and Figures. By John Carter, Teacher of the English Language.
Carter, John (Teacher)Date: [1773]- Books
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A grammar of the English tongue. To which are added exercises in bad English, to be corrected by the rules of syntax. By Thomas Coar.
Coar, Thomas.Date: 1796