Youth - Conduct of life - Early works to 1800
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The beauties of history or, pictures of virtue and vice, drawn from real life; designed as an introduction to the art of thinking and reflection. Wherein the Intertainment as Well as Instruction of the Reader is Particularly Consulted. By L. M. Stretch, M.A. In two volumes. Vol. II. To which is prefixed, an introductory tract on education, Respecting Young Ladies as Well as Gentlemen. By Samuel Whyte, Principal of the English Grammar School.
Date: M,DCC,LXXV. [1775]- E-books
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The friend: or, essays instructive and entertaining for youth of both sexes; on the most important subjects: exemplified with stories from real life
Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- E-books
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The parental monitor In two volumes. By Mrs. Bonhote, Of Bungay, Soffolk.
Bonhote, Mrs. (Elizabeth), 1744-1818.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- E-books
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The parent's and guardian's directory, and the youth's guide, in the choice of a profession or trade Containing I. An Essay on the Education of the Tradesman and Mechanic. II. The Qualifications necessary for those designed for the Three Learned Professions. III. An Account of the several Trades and Mechanic Arts, digested in alphabetical Order: In which the Businesses omitted by other Authors are here inserted; the Qualifications necessary for each Trade are explained; the Sums given with Apprentices; the Wages of Journeymen; and the Sums required to set up Masters, are exhibited. IV. Advice to an Apprentice on his Behaviour while subject to his Master. By Joseph Collyer, Esq;.
Collyer, Joseph, d. 1776.Date: 1761- E-books
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The polite instructor, or, Youth's museum : consisting of moral essays, tales, fables, visions, and allegories : selected from the most approved modern authors : with an introduction, containing rules for reading with elegance and propriety : to the whole is added, a collection of letters : with some rules prefixed, useful for supporting a genteel epistolary correspondence,
Date: [1768]