The child's guide to the English tongue: or, a new spelling-book; containing short and easie directions for spelling, reading, Pointing, and Pronouncing of English. Also an Alphabetical Epitome of the most Remarkable Passages of the Historical Part of the Old-Testament; and a few words concerning the New Covenant, and the Author thereof; very Useful, and Delightful. With an Explanation of Offices and Sects of Men, mentioned in the Holy Scripture. An Abstract of the Lives of the Apostles. Tables of Weights, Measures, and Money us'd among the Jews; and other Things necessary to be known. Collected and compiled for the benefit of youth, by a school-master in the town of Nottingham.
- Thompson, William, Quaker.
- Date:
- 1711
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Publication/Creation
London : printed by J. Sowle, in White-Hart-Court, in Gracious-Street, 1711.
Physical description
132p. ; 120.
Contributors
References note
ESTC T55111
Alston, IV.283
Smith, J. Friends' books, 2.740
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.