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• The young gentleman and lady's monitor : and English teacher's assistant; being a collection of select pieces from our best modern writers: Calculated To Eradicate Vulgar Prejudices and Rusticity of Manners; Improve the Understanding; Rectify the Will; Purify the Passions; Direct the Minds of Youth to the Pursuit of proper Objects; and to facilitate their Reading, Writing, and Speaking the English Language, with Elegance and Propriety. Particularly adapted for the use of our eminent schools and Academies, as well as private Persons, who have not an Opportunity of perusing the Works of those celebrated Authors, from whence this Collection is made. Divided Into Small Portions for the Ease of Reading in Classes. The sixth edition. By J. Hamilton Moore, Author of the Practical Navigator and Seaman's New Daily Assistant
  by: Moore, John Hamilton
  Published: (1791)
• The Guide, or Counsellor of human life : containing miscellaneous pieces, on a variety of useful and entertaining subjects. Calculated to improve the understanding;--rectify the will;--purify the passions;--form the manners, and direct the minds of youth to the pursuit of proper objects, and instructing them in the ways of a moral, civil and religious life. Treated in a manner suited to the taste of ingenious readers.--All that variety of thought; all that fineness and briskness of fancy, which renders them as delightful as useful, is herein curiously wrought. The whole closed with an exhortation, addressed, first, to the young, second, to those advanced in years. [Three lines of Scripture texts] By the editor, Preceptor of youth's education
  Published: (1794)
• Practical lectures on education, spiritual and temporal; Extracted from the most eminent Authors on that Subject. Containing Every particular Requisite that concerns the Education of a Gentleman, and Man of Business: With proper Advice in regard to the Female Sex; in order to cultivate the Minds of Youth with the Love of Virtue and Learning; thereby to enable them to discharge properly that Duty incumbent on them to their Creator, their Parents, and the World. Also, Observations on a private and publick Education; with some proper Directions to the several Teachers in the English and Writing Schools; which the Editor, by long Experience, is sensible cannot fail of raising in the Minds of Youth an Emulation so; Learning. Necessary for all Parents to have in their Families. To which are annexed 32 Pages of moral and entertaining Sentences, in Prose and Verse; on Virtue, Religion, Wisdom, Learning, Industry, Frugality, Honesty, &c. &c. &c. proper for Youth either to transcribe, or study by way of Evening Task. By J. Girrard, W. M. &c. in Exeter
  by: Girrard, J.
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• Letters on the improvement of the mind : Addressed to a young lady. In two volumes
  by: Chapone, Hester
  Published: (1773)
• Letters on the improvement of the mind : addressed to a young lady. In two volumes. By Mrs. Chapone
  by: Chapone, Hester
  Published: (1775)