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A new introduction to reading: or, a collection of easy lessons, Arranged on an improved Plan; calculated to acquire with ease a theory of speech, and to facilitate the improvement of youth. Designed as an introduction to The speaker. The fourth edition, corrected. Compiled by the publisher.
Date: 1795- Books
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An American selection of lessons in reading and speaking. Calculated to improve the minds and refine the taste of youth. And also to instruct them in the geography, history, and politicks of the United States. To which is prefixed, rules in elocution, and directions for expressing the principal passions of the mind. Being the third part of A grammatical institute of the English language. By Noah Webster, Jun'r. Esquire.
Webster, Noah, 1758-1843.Date: M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]- Books
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The academic reader. Containing miscellanies prose and verse, selected from the most elegant writers in the English language. Intended to assist in acquiring the happy talent of graceful reading; to kindle in the breast a noble ambition to rival illustrious characters, to promote generous sentiments, and to awaken a sensibility of whatever is most amiable in life. By H. Ward, school-master in Whitehaven.
Ward, H.Date: 1789- Books
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A short treatise upon arts and sciences, in French and English, by question and answer. The sixth edition. Enlarged with an infinite number of things both curious and instructive. ... By John Palairet, ...
Palairet, Jean, 1697-1774.Date: 1779- Books
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Abrége' sur les sciences & sur les arts, par demandes & par réponses. = A short treatise upon arts and sciences, by question and answer.
Palairet, Jean, 1697-1774.Date: Printed in the Year of our Lord MDCCXXXI. [1731]- Books
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A Complete picture of human life: or, Variety of food for the mind. Consisting of valuable matter, calculated for the pleasure and instruction of readers of every class; and including a collection of genuine and entertaining narrations, tales, stories, anecdotes, essays, historiess, adventures, relations, memoirs, lives, morals, poems, strange occurrences, singular providences, remarkable characters, melancholy transactions, admirable deliverances, wonderful events, &c. Among which,besides those articles selected from approved authors, are interspersed many original pieces, never before published.
Date: [1795?]- Books
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A short treatise upon arts and sciences, in French and English, by question and answer. The ninth edition. Revised and carefully corrected. ... By John Palairet, ...
Palairet, Jean, 1697-1774.Date: 1792- Books
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A short treatise upon arts and sciences, in French and English, by question and answer. The eight edition. ... Revised and carefully corrected by Mr. Du Mitand. ... By John Palairet, ...
Palairet, Jean, 1697-1774.Date: 1788- Books
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A short treatise upon arts and sciences, in French and English, by question and answer. The seven editino [sic]. Enlarged with an infinite number of things both curious, and instructive. ... By John Palairet, ...
Palairet, Jean, 1697-1774.Date: 1795- Books
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A short treatise upon arts and sciences, in French and English, by question and answer. The fifth edition. Enlarged with an infinite number of things both curious and instructive. ... By John Palairet, ...
Palairet, Jean, 1697-1774.Date: 1767- Books
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The academic speaker; or, a selection of parliamentary debates, orations, odes, scenes, and speeches, from the best writers, proper to be read and recited by youth at school. To which are prefixed, elements of gesture; ... The third edition. By John Walker, ...
Date: 1797- Books
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An American selection of lessons in reading and speaking. Calculated to improve the minds and refine the taste of youth. And also to instruct them in the geography, history, and politics of the United States. To which is prefixed, rules in elocution, and directions for expressing the principal passions of the mind. Being the third part of A grammatical institute of the English language. By Noah Webster, Jun. Esq.
Webster, Noah, 1758-1843.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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The reader: or, Miscellaneous pieces, selected from the best English writers, and disposed, under proper heads, with a view to facilitate the improvement of youth in reading and speaking. To which is annexed, a list of words, properly arranged and divided into syllables, after the most approved method.
Date: 1797- Books
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The academic speaker; or, a selection of parliamentary debates, orations, odes, scenes, and speeches, from the best writers. Proper to be read and recited by youth at school. To which are prefixed, elements of gesture; or plain and easy directions for keeping the body in a graceful position, and acquiring a simple and unaffected style of action. Epxlained [sic] and illustrated by plates. By John Walker, author of Elements of elocution, Rhyming dictionary, &c.
Date: 1796- Books
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The complete English scholar. In three parts. Containing A new, short, and familiar Method of Instructing Children, and Perfecting Grown Persons in the English Tongue, and of Learning Grammar in general, without the Help of Latin. In Which The Various Lessons are adapted to convey the ruling Principles of Life, and mend the Heart at the same time that they enlighten the Understanding. By James Buchanan.
Buchanan, James, active 1753-1773.Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]