OLD-TIME SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL-BOOKS - online book
An Illustrated history & description Of Schools in the 18th & 19th Centurys.
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11 Old-time Schools and School-books
pages, first published in 1596. It continued to be extraordinarily popular for over a century. According to the title-page, " he which hath this Book only, needeth to buy no other to make him fit from his Letters to the Grammar-School, or for an Apprenticed Besides spelling, it contained arithmetic, history, writing lessons, prayers, psalms, and a short catechism. To add to the intricacy, much of the text was printed in old English black letter.
Another ancestral speller was England's Perfect School-Mafter, by Nathaniel Strong, London, 1676, of the editing and use of which the author says in his |
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One curious department, covering fifteen pages, consists of" Some Obfervations of Words that are alike in found, yet of different fignification, and fpelling." Their use and meaning are indicated thus:—
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