Conduct of life - Juvenile literature - Early works to 1800
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The excellent daughter a discourse very necessary to be given by all parents to their children, (though first designed for the Benefit of Poor Girls Taught and Clothed by Charity.) To which is added, several proper lessons of the duty of daughters, to be learned or practised by them in Schools or Families; as likewise Prayers for their Use; and a Paraphrase in Verse, on the Thirty-First Chapter of Proverbs. By White Kennet, D. D. Late Lord Bishop of Peterborough.
White KennettDate: MDCCLX. [1760]- E-books
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Useful and delightful instructions, by way of dialogue between the master & his scholar . Containing the duty of children. Composed in verse, after a very Plain, Easie, Delightful and Natural Manner: And humbly recommended to the Use of Children of both Sexes, train'd up in the Charity-Schools.
Gills, ThomasDate: [1716]- E-books
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The humours of a fair or, a description of the early amusements in life. Embellished with cuts.
Date: [1790?]- E-books
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The child's weeks-work or, A little book, so nicely suited to the genius and capacity of a little child, both for matter and method, that it will infallibly allure and lead him on into a way of reading with all the ease and expedition that can be desired. By William Ronksley.
Ronksley, William.Date: 1712- E-books
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Emblems for improvement and entertainment of youth containing Emblematical, Hieroglyphical, and Aenigmatical, Devices, relating to all Parts and Stations of Life; intending to promote Morality, Virtue, and Religion; and suppress Immorality, Vice, and Prophaneness, by giving useful Lessons and Admonitions to all Ages, Degrees, and Capacities, suitable to most Exigences in common Life. Illustrated With proper and necessary Explanations and Observations from Natural History, and the Manners, Customs and Opinions of the Ancients. Curiously engraved on Sixty-Two Copper-Plates. Containing near One Thousand different Articles; with a copious Index and alphabetical Table of Contents; contrived not only for a Study and Improvement, but also as a Play or Diversion for youth.
Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]