English language - Etymology - Early works to 1800

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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]
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The abecedarian, or, philosophic comment upon the English alphabet . Setting forth the absurdities in the present custom of spelling, the Superfluity of Letters in Words, and the great Confusion that their ill Names and double Meanings are of to all Learners. with Modest proposals for a reformation of the alphabet, adapting special Characters for that Purpose, as being the only Means practicable whereby to render the same distinct, uniform, and universal. Also, A Word to the Reader, shewing the Indignity of ill Habits in Lecturers, pointing out to them the Beauties and Excellency of graceful and fine Reading. Likewise, a Syllableium, or Universal Reading Table, for Beginners, calculated after the present Use, for the Way of all Schools throughout the Kingdom. Together with a Discourse on the Word, or A-Tau, tetragrammatical, preceding those Tables. By John Yeomans, Schoolmaster in Five-Fields-Row, Chelsea.
Yeomans, John, fl. 1759.Date: 1759
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The accidences of the parts of speech or the rudiments of etymology. After a new and easie method. Containing, 1. The alphabet with its division, and the definitions of the eight parts of speech most intelligible by youth; Page 1: 2. The accidences of noun and pronoun with their examples and all that relates to them; from Page 2 till 8. 3. Verb & its accidences, with four regular examples & some irregular. and what necessarily belongs thereto, all exposed by way of Tables, to one glance of the Eye; for the help of the Local Memory. from P, 8, till 17, 4. Participle with all that relates thereto, adverbs, prepositions, interjections and conjunctions, with their English, and all that may necessarily relate to them, Page 17 to the end.
Blau, Robert, fl. 1710.Date: [1710]
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Notes on the etymology of a few antique words By Mr. Brothers. Copied from the Morning-Post, April 18, 1796.
Brothers, Richard, 1757-1824.Date: 1796
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Epea pteroenta Or, the diversions of Purley. Part I. By John Horne Tooke, A. M. late of St. John's College, Cambridge.
Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812.Date: MDCCXCVIII. [1798]-1805