History - Study and teaching - Early works to 1800
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The historical preceptor or, a collection of entertaining and instructive passages, selected from the works of the best historians. For the Use of Schools. By the editor of the polite and poetical preceptors.
Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- E-books
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The last will and testament of the late Rt. Hon. Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke. Extracted from the registry of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. To which is added, a copy of an original letter from his Lordship to a noble peer, giving his reasons for leaving the kingdom in March 1715.
Henry St John, 1st Viscount BolingbrokeDate: M.DCC.LII. [1752]- E-books
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Two dialogues , concerning the manner of writing history. From the French of Abb�e de Mably.
Mably, abb�e de, 1709-1785.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIII. [1783]- E-books
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An essay upon the education of youth in grammar-schools . In which the vulgar method of teaching is examined, and a new one proposed, for the more easy and speedy training up of youth to the knowledge of the learned languages; together with history, chronology, geography, &c. By John Clarke, master of the Publick Grammar-School in Hull.
John ClarkeDate: 1720- E-books
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Geography and history. Selected by a lady, for the use of her own children
LadyDate: MDCCXCIV. [1794]