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A new grammar of the English language; or, an easy introduction to the art of speaking and writing English with propriety and correctness: the whole laid down in the most plain and familiar manner, and calculated for the use, not only of schools, but of private gentlemen. By D. Fenning, author of the Royal English Dictionary (published by the King's Authority). - The Schoolmaster's Companion in the Knowledge of Arithmetic. - The Universal Spelling-Book. - The New Spelling-Dictionary. - The British Youth's Instructor, or a New and Easy Guide to Practical Arithmetic. - The Ready reckoner, being correct Tables of Accompts ready cast up. - The Young Man's Book of Knowledge. - The Young Measurer's Complete Guide. - The Youth's Familiar Guide to Trade and Commerce. - And the Young Algebraist's Companion.
Fenning, Daniel.Date: [1790?]- Books
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A new grammar of the English language; or, an easy introduction to the art of speaking and writing English with propriety and correctness: The Whole Laid Down In The Most Plain And Familiar Manner, And Calculated For The Use, Not Only Of Schools, But Of Private Gentlemen. By D. Fenning, Author of the Royal English Dictionary (published by the King's Authority). - The Schoolmaster's Companion in the Knowledge of Arithmetic. - The Universal Spelling-Book. - The New Spelling Dictionary. - The British Youth's Instructor; or, A New and Easy Guide to Practical Arithmetic. - The Ready Reckoner, being correct Tables of Accompts ready cast up. - The Young Man's Book of Knowledge. - The Young Measurer's Complete Guide. - The Youth's Familiar Guide to Trade and Commerce. And the Young Algebraist's Companion.
Fenning, Daniel.Date: M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]- Books
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A new grammar of the English language; or, an easy introduction to the art of speaking and writing English, with propriety and correctness. The whole laid down in the most plain and familiar Manner, and calculated for the Use not only of Schools, but of private Gentlemen. By D. Fenning. Author of the Royal English Dictionary (published by the King's Authority.)-The Schoolmaster's Companion in the Knowledge of Arithmetic. - The Universal Spelling-Book. - The New Spelling Dictionary. - The British Youth's Instructor, or a New and Easy Guide to Practical Arithmetic. - The Ready Reckoner, being correct Tables of Accompts ready east up-The Young Man's Book of Knowledge. - The Young Measurer's complete Guide. - The Youth's Familiar Guide to Trade and Commerce. - And the Young Algebraist's Companion.
Fenning, Daniel.Date: 1800- Books
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The complete French master, for ladies and gentlemen; containing I. A new methodical French grammar. II. A well-digested and copious Vocabulary. III. Familiar Phrases and Dialogues on all Manner of Subjects. IV. The elements of French conversation, with new and easy Dialogues of the Grammar of M. Perrin. By Mr. A. Boyer, Author of the Royal Dictionary, French and English.
Boyer, Abel, 1667-1729.Date: 1795- Books
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A new grammar of the English language; or an easy introduction to the art of speaking and writing English with propriety and correctness: The whole laid down in the most plain and familiar manner, and calculated for the use, not only of Schools, but of private Gentlemen. By D. Fenning. Author of the Royal English Dictionary (published by the King's Authority)-The Schoolmaster's Companion in the Knowledge of Arithmetic. - --The Universal Spelling-Book. --- The New Spelling-Dictionary. - --The British Youth's Instructor, or a New and Easy Guide to Practical Arithmetic. - --The Ready Reckoner, being correct Tables of Accompts ready cast up. And the Young Man's Book of Knowledge.
Fenning, Daniel.Date: MDCCLXXI. [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 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: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
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An introduction to the English tongue; designed for a spelling book, suited to the tender capacities of children: (adorned with cuts.) Containing, A great Number of instructive Lessons, from the most easy possible, to the hardest; disposed in a Way so facilitating, that Children learn with Pleasure, and are excellently, fitted for the Testament, or any other Book. - Large Tables of Words - Fables. - Extracts from History. - The Church Catechism. - Graces and Prayers. - Rules for Good Behaviour. - An Introduction to Grammar, &c. The sixth edition: By the Rev. C. Marshall, Vicar of Brixworth, Northamptonshire.
Marshall, Charles, -1818.Date: [1785?]- Books
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French rudiments: consisting of a grammar of the language, every-way better than any, and more comprehensive than All; - A Vocabulary of the most usual Words; - A Sententiae of the most familiar Phrases; - A Dictionary of the most beautiful Idioms; and - A Florilege of the most celebrated Pieces, from the best Writers, both Ancient and Modern. To which are added tables of corresponding terminations, and words of similar sound; in English, French, Latin, Greek, &c. by way of Key to the Etymology. A List of Words, the same (or nearly so) in Sound; but different in Sense, and Spelling; cast into short Sentences, for the Ease of the Memory. AN Explanation of Idioms; with divers other Curious and Useful Particulars. The whole dispos'd in the most easy and instructive method; and Printed in the most Commodious Manner; as well to strike the Eye and Imagination, by a proper Distinction of Letter and Situation; as for the readier Turning to, or Learning of any Particular: And, SO, Fitted for the Use of Ladies as well as Gentlemen (whether French, or English) and even brought-down to the Capacities of little Children. By Solomon Lowe.
Lowe, Solomon, -1750.Date: [1740]- Books
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The compleat tutor. Being the second part to the Child's compleat tutor. Consisting, I. Of Words of Four, Five, Six, and Seven Syllables. II. Tables of the most usual Scripture names, with their Signification. - Of the usual Proper Names of Men and Women, and their Signification. III. Of Letters in general; of Diphthongs Tripthongs, with the Division of Syllables. IV. A Table of Words, the same, or nearly alike in Sound, but different in Sense and Spelling. V. The Use of Stops and Marks in Writing, and a List of Abbrevations, with their Explanations. VI. Treating on Grammar in general. Vii. Of Figures and Numerals. To which is added, select fables in prose and verse. Intended for the use of schools. By John Jones, Usher in Bromsgrove Free-School.
Jones, John, usher in Bromsgrove Free-School.Date: [1769]- Books
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A parsing or grammatical resolution of some of the Colloquies of Cordery. Proper to be used with Clarke's English Translation. For the Use of young Beginners in the Latin Tongue, especially those of the Free-Grammar-School in Southampton. In which is shewn,---What Part of Speech every Word is. - --What Conjugation, Mood, Tense, Number, and Person every Verb is. - --What Declension, Case, Gender, or Number every other declinable Part of Speech is,---the Agreement and Government of each, with two or three Words of the Rules for such Agreeement and Government, and Reference to the Pages in which they are to be found in the Common Accidence published either by John Ward or Richard Mant; the Letter W. distinguishing the former, M. the latter. Every Latin Word of more than two Syllables is accented; and an Index is added, shewing in what Manner the Verbs are to be conjugated. M. A. Master of the Free-Grammar-School, Southampton.
Mant, Richard, 1744 or 1745-1817.Date: [1800?]- Books
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Dictionarivm saxonico-latino-anglicum. Voces, phrasesque præcipuas anglo-saxonicas, e libris, sive manuscriptis, sive typis excusis, aliisque monumentis ... collectas; cum latina et anglica vocum interpretatione complectens ... / Opera & stvdio Gvliel. Somneri Cantuariensis. Accesservnt Ælfrici Abbatis grammatica latino-saxonica, cvm glossario suo ejusdem generis.
Somner, William, 1598-1669.Date: 1659- Books
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Tabulæ linguarum. Being a set of tables, exhibiting at sight the declensions of nouns and conjugations of verbs; with other grammatical requisites essential to the reading and speaking of the following languages, viz. Latin Spanish Portuguese Italian French Norman Gothic German Dutch Danish Swedish English Celtic or Erse Armoric Basque Biseayen Cornish Waldense Irish Scotch Welsh Manks Noise Sclavonic Russian Hungarian Bohemian Polish Turkish Hebrew Arabic Persic Greek Morean Arabesque Ethiopic African Morisco Coptic Showrah [Shilhæ] Tartarean Kalmuc Ostiac Nagree Bengals Hindostan Chinese Japanese Malayan Javanese Algonkin Esquimaux With an Explication of the Lingua Franca; and the pretended modern Egyptian, or Cant Language. The Whole being intended to facilitate the Acquisition of any of those Languages, by having in the most conspicuous point of view whatever is esteemed therein essentially necessary to be committed to Memory. The Radical or Ancient Languages being taken from the best Authorities; and the Derivative or Modern from the Determinations of the present Academics and Literary Societies of the respective Countries. In eight parts. Part I. containing the Latin, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, and Norman.
Clarke, Henry, 1743-1818.Date: 1793- Books
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An introduction. to the English tongue; designed for a spelling book suited to all ages and capacities of children: (adorned with cuts) Containing A great Number of instructive Lessons, from the most easy possible, to the hardest; disposed in a Way so facilitating, that Children learn with Pleasure, and are excellently sirted for the Testament, or any other Book. - Large Tables of Words. - Fables. - Extracts from History. - Tables of Arithmetic. - Exercising Questions in Verse. - The Church Catechism. - Scripture Institutes and Examples. - Rules for Good Behaviour. - And other useful Instructions. The fifth edition. With additions and improvements. By the Rev. C. Marshall, Vicar of Brixworth, Northamptonshire.
Marshall, Charles, -1818.Date: [1780?]- Books
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Sermons on various subjects, preached at St. Paul's Church, Blackburn. By the Rev. Samuel Dean, Minister Of The Said Church, And Late Head-Master Of The Free Grammar-School Volume I. Entered At Stationers' Hall.
Dean, Samuel, minister of the New Jerusalem Temple.Date: [1795]- Books
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An introduction to arithmetic; containing arithmetical tables; with the most useful Rules in common Arithmetic. Vulgar and decimal Fractions. - --Extraction of the Square and of the Cube Root. Rules for working on the Carpenters sliding Rule, and on Gunters Scale. - --Duodecimals, or cross Multiplication. - --Practical Questions in Mensuration. The Gregorian Calendar; with a perpetuai Almanac. - --A Table for finding on what Day of the Week, any Month begins; also a Table for Planting. A few Forms of Bills and promissory Notes; with a small Collection of miscellaneous Questions. By James Gray, Author of the Concise Spelling Book, for the use of Children.
Gray, James, -1810.Date: [1797]- Books
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Élémens de la langue angloise, contenant tout ce qui est renfermé d'essentiel et de nécessaire dans des ouvrages plus volumineux. Par J. Perrin, Auteur D'Une Grammaire Françoise, &c. Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée, Augmente'e D'Un Abrégé - de Syntaxe, &c. Et Termine'z Par Un Vocabulaire et des Dialogues, Avec la Pronunciation Figure'e. par Mr. Des Carrières.
Perrin, John.Date: 1796- Books
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The english reader: or, pieces in prose and poetry, selected from the best writers. Designed to assist young persons to read with propriety and effect; To Improve their Language and Sentiments; and to Inculcate come of the most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue. With a few preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good Reading. By Lindley Murray, Author of ̀̀english Grammar Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners,'' &c.
Date: 1799- Books
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The young man's new universal companion; or, gentleman's pocket intelligencer. Containing, I. The Principles of the English Language; Directions for Writing; Specimens of Letters; Forms of Address; and Rules for Penmanship. II. Forms of Wills and Deeds; Notes, Receipts, Bills of Parcels and Book Debts, with many other mercantile Matters, as Shipping, Invoices, and the Nature of Exports and Imports. III. Arithmetic in general; Vulgar and Decimal Fractions; Extraction of Roots, and their Uses; Duodecimals and their Application to Artificers' Works; Board and Timber Measure. IV. Chronology and Geometry, with some of their most useful Problems; Plain Trigonometry; the Geography of Maps; Navigation and Astronomy, including a full Account of the Georgium Sidus, or New Planet. Dialling, with the newly invented Pocket Card-Dial. The colouring of Dial-Boards, and preparing Colours for beautifying Maps, &c. V. The Mensuration of superficial and solid Bodies. Easy Methods of surveying Land-Cask Gauging. Information to Custom-House, Military, and Engineer Officers. VI. Several valuable and approved Receipts in Physic and Surgery. Method of avoiding infectious Diseases; of Consumptions of the Lungs. Fly-Fishing and Angling. Directions for Swimming. Recovery of drowned Persons. On the Barometer, Thermometer, and Hygrometer; the Aurora Borealis. To estimate the Value of Life and Leasehold Estates upon two or three Lives, &c. &c. Begun by the late Mr. D. Fenning, Author of the Royal English Dictionary, Universal Spelling Book, Ready Reckoner, Young Man's Book of Knowledge, New Grammar of the English Tongue, &c. and continued by the Rev. J. Malham. Author of the Scholar's Plain and Familiar Guide to the Knowledge of Vulgar and Decimal Arithmetic, Pocket Card-Dial, &c.
Fenning, Daniel.Date: 1788- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 8
Date: Jul 1904 - May 1905Reference: WF/E/01/01/08Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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The psalm-Singer's jewel: or, useful companion to the singing-psalms. Being, a new exposition on all the one hundred and fifty: with poetical precepts to every psalm. The whole are faithfully explained from Sacred History, from Verse to Verse, for the Use of all Lovers of Psalmody in general: With Expositional Notes, referring to all concording Parts of the Scripture. - Also, An Alphabetical Description of Persons, of Places, and of Things mentioned in the Old and New Testament; and of Christ, Poeticlaly. - With a general Calendar for the Adapting of Psalms to all Occasions: And a New Set of Psalm-Tunes, in Three and Four Parts. - With select Hymns, and Doxologies: And a general Key to the whole; for the Use of all Christian Families, &c. &c. &c. By William Tans'ur, Senior. -Musico-Theorico. Author of The New Royal Melody; and The New Musical Grammar, and Dictionary, &c. &c.
Tans'ur, William, 1699?-1783.Date: M.DCC.LX. [1760]- Books
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A practical treatise on singing and playing with just expression and real elegance. Being an essay on I. Grammar. II. Pronunciation; or, The Art of Just Speaking. III. Singing -Its Graces-Their Application. - On Cathedral Compositions. By Anselm Bayly, L. L. D. Sub-Dean of his Majesty's Chapel-Royal.
Bayly, Anselm, -1794.Date: M.DCC.LXXI. [1771]- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: HAR
Date: 1756-1952Reference: MS.8912- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: FA-FE
Date: 1695-1911Reference: MS.9160- Books
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The household oracle : a popular referee on subjects of household enquiry : including: - house building, buying and renting; house furnishing and decoration; housekeeping and domestic cookery; plain and fancy needlework; home farming, gardening, medicine; law; an epitome of the history of the world and the growth of the human family; the formation of our mother tongue and the rules of English grammar; a dictionary of religions; stepping stones of English history and a sketch of the English constitution setting forth the rights, privileges and duties of the English householder parochial, municipal, imperial; the story of the calendar, standards of weights and measures; arithmetical tables and tables of interest and a ready reckoner; household amusements, games, chess, cards and other indoor games, dancing, swimming, etiquette, ... / edited by Alfred H. Miles ; assisted by a staff of specialists.
Date: [1897?]