The young man's new universal companion or, gentleman's pocket intelligencer. Containing, I The Principles of the English Language; Directions for Writing; Specimens of Letters; Forms of Address; and Rules for Penmanship. II Forms of Wills and Deeds; Notes, Receipts, Bills of Parcels and Book Debts, with many other Mercantile Matters, as Shipping, Invoices, and the Nature of Exports and Imports. III. Arithmetic in general; Vulgar and Decimal Fractions; Extraction of Roots, and their Uses; Duodecimals and their Application to Artificers' Works; Board and Timber Measure. IV. Chronology and Geometry, with some of their most useful Problems; Plain Trigonometry; the Geography of Maps; Navigation and Astronomy, including a full Account of the Georgium Sidus, or New Planet. Dialling, with the newly invented Pocket Card-Dial. The colouring of Dial-Boards, and preparing Colours for beautifying Maps, &c. V. The Mensuration of superficial and solid Bodies. Easy Methods of surveying Land-Cask Gauging. Information to Custom-House Officers. VI. Directions for Swimming. Recovery of Drowned Persons. To estimate the Value of Life and Leasehold Estates upon two or three Lives, &c. &c. By the late Mr. D. Fenning, Author of the Universal Spelling Book, Ready Reckoner, Young Man's Book of Knowledge, New Grammar of the English Tongue, &c. &c

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Fenning, Daniel
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London printed for G.G.& J. Robinson; W. Fenning; G. Wilkie; J. Scatcherd; C. Law; T. N. Longman & O. Rees; Crosby & Letterman; & H. Lowndes; By J. Abraham, Clement's-Lane 1800, 1800
Subjects:	Handbooks, Vade-mecums, Etc
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/0656800900?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa