Similar Items

• A new guide to the English tongue : in five parts. Containing I. Words both common and proper, from one to six syllables; the several sorts of monosyllables in the common words being distinguished by Tables, into words of two, three, and four letters, &c. with six short lessons at the end of each table not exceeding the order of syllables in the foregoing tables. The several sorts of pollysyllables also, being ranged in proper tables, have their syllables divided, and directions placed at the head of each table for the accent, to prevent false pronunciation; together with the like number of lessons on the foregoing tables, placed at the end of each table, as far as to words of four syllables, for the easier and more speedy way of teaching children to read. II. A large and useful table of words, that are the same in sound, but different in signification; very necessary to prevent the writing one word for another of the same sound. III. A short, but comprehensive grammar of the English tongue delivered in the most familiar and instructive method of question and answer; necessary for all such persons as have the advantage only of an English education. IV. A useful collection of sentences in prose and verse, divine, moral, and historical; together with a select number of fables, adorn'd with proper sculptures, for the better improvement of the young beginner. And, V. Forms of prayer for children, on several occasions The whole, being recommended by several Clergymen and eminent Schoolmasters, as the most useful performance for the instruction of youth, is designed for the use of schools in Great Britain, and Iceland, and in the several English colonies and plantations abroad. By Thomas Dilworth, Author of the Schoolmaster's Assistant and Young Book-Keeper's Assistant, &c. and Schoolmaster in Wapping
  by: Dilworth, Thomas
  Published: (1786)
• The oxford spelling-book : being a complete introduction to English orthography. In a method much more clear and intelligible than any book of this nature, hitherto extant. In four parts. I. Of Letters in General and Particular; of Diphthongs, Triphthongs, &c. II. Of Syllables; Rules for Dividing, &c. III. Of Words in General; Of Words of like Sound, but different in Spelling and Signification; Of Words the same in Spelling, but different in Sound and Signification, &c. IV. Of Sentences; together with Rules for Right Pointing; the most usual Abbreviations, &c. The whole interspersed with easy and familiar rules, Remarks, &c. adapted to the Capacity of every Learner. By Tho. Tuite
  by: Tuite, Thomas
  Published: (1726)
• The critical spelling-book : an introduction to reading and writing readily and correctly. In a manner more commodious than any, and more comprehensive than all the spelling-books that ever were publisht. Designd-For a standard of the language: and contrivd by a proper gradation of instructions, disposd in a picturesque manner, for the easy and expeditious attaining-to a rational knowledge of it
  by: Lowe, Solomon
  Published: (1755)
• The town and country spelling-book : in four parts. Part I. Contains single words and short sentences, with the syllables in each word divided as they are pronounced. Part II. Contains single words only, with their syllables undivided; and comprehends all the longest and most difficult words in the English Language. Part III. Contains moral and entertaining lessons, with the syllables in each word undivided. Part IV. Contains a plain and comprehensive view of the pronunciation of the best speakers in London; designed more particularly for the use of schools at a distance from London. With an appendix, containing observations on Accent, Emphasis, Pauses, &c. By Cortes Telfair, Curer of Impediments in Speech
  by: Telfair, Cortes
  Published: (1775)
• A guide to the English tongue : in two parts. The First proper for Beginners, shewing a Natural and Easy Method, to pronounce and express both Common Words, and proper Names; in which particular Care is had to shew the Accent, for preventing Vitious Pronounciation. The Second for such as are advanced to some Ripeness of Judgment, containing Observations on the Sounds of Letters and Diphthongs; Rules for the true Division of Syllables, and the Use of Capitals, Stops, and Marks: With large tables of Abbreviations, and Distinctions of Words; and several Alphabets of Copies for young Writers. To which is now added, an appendix, containing many additional Lessons, in Prose and Verse; First, in words of one Syllable only; and then mixed with Words of two, three, four, five, six, and seven Syllables. By T. Dyche, Schoolmaster at Stratford Bow
  by: Dyche, Thomas
  Published: (1759)