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
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Publication/Creation
London : printed for W. Nicoll, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1765.
Physical description
252p. ; 80.
Contributors
Edition
The second edition.
References note
ESTC T105965
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.