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A key to letters or, a complete introduction to Spelling and Reading English, After a New, Easy, and Familiar Method. In two parts. Part I. Contains upwards of six Thousand Words digested into Eight distinct Classes, with Orders and Subdivisions; the redundant and obscure Letters, where they occur, marked and explained, to prevent a false Pronunciation: with easy and instructive Reading-Lessons, on various subjects, properly adapted to the first four Classes. Part II. Contains, 1. A Dialogue on the Rules for dividing Words into Syllables, which are delivered in a concise Manner, and freed from every sort of Difficulty. 2. Several Tables of Words left undivided, as an Exercise on the said Rules. 3. A second Dialogue on the Powers of the Letters, with Remarks on their particular Sounds and different Coalitions. 4. A more copious Table of Words, the same in Sound, but differing in Sense, than any heretofore published. 5. Words the same in Spelling but different in Signification. 6. The Use of Stops and Marks in Reading. 7. Irregular Verbs with their Preterit and Participle passive different. 9. A large alphabetical Table of Scripture proper Names divided and accented. To which is added an appendix. The whole so methodised as to render it of the greatest Utility, not only to young Ladies and Gentlemen, for whose immediate use it is designed, but to adult Persons and Foreigners; who may learn hereby to read, write, and pronounce English with propriety and exactness. Book II. For the use of schools. By Charles Bryant, School-Master in Norwich.
Bryant, Charles, schoolmaster.Date: [1769]- E-books
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A key to the French language; or, pocket-companion for those who wish to speak, spell, write, and translate, with ease, expedition, and correctness. In three parts. Part I. containing 108 Examples of the different Modes of rendering the most familiar English Words (alphabetically arranged) into French; after a new Manner, in the Nature of School-Copies. Part II. containing Rules or Explanations of those Examples. Part III. containing a short View of the Eight Parts of Speech, with References to the Examples; which renders the whole clear, comprehensive, and pleasant to the Learner. Calculated no less for the Use of Schools and private Pupils, than for the Public at large, as a short Road to the Knowledge of Grammar, and a certain Guide to the Acquaintance with Authors. Dedicated to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
Date: MDCCLXXXII. [1782]- E-books
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A complete set of rules and examples for writing with accuracy & freedom By Richard Langford ..
Langford, Richard, d. 1814.Date: [1787]- E-books
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The many advantages of a good language to any nation: with an examination of the present state of our own: as also, an essay towards correcting some things that are wrong in it
Wilson, Thomas, 1663-1755.Date: MDCCXXIV. [1724]- E-books
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A collection of English prose and verse , for the use of schools, selected from different authors. By Alexander Barrie, Teacher of English in Edinburgh.
Date: M,DCC,LXXXI. [1781]