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    The young mans companion, or, A very useful manual for youth [microform] : containing plain directions whereby youth may attain to read and write true English, also instructions for writing short-hand ... the foundation of arithmetick ... : with very easie rules for measuring ... also a very easie way of dialling ... to which are added, some monthly observations for the lovers of planting ... experiments in physick and chyrurgery, and also a short history of the ancient inhabitants of England, with a small map thereof ... with an alphabetical table for the ready finding of any matter herein contained, written in a plain stile, whereby an ordinary capacity may attain the same without a tutor.

    Mather, W. (William), active 1695 | Date: 1692

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