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Colonial Schools of the Eighteenth Century 59 |
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natured, pleafant and mannerly." Hence Tommy becomes a great and rich man while Harry sinks to poverty and wretchedness and crime. Finally, |
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Selections from a series of Alphabet Illustrations in The British Instructor.
to escape arrest, Harry took flight by sea; but " Divine Vengeance " followed him, the ship was wrecked, and though he was cast up on the shore he soon afterward " became a Prey to wild Beafts, which God fufTered to tear him in Pieces, as the juft Reward of his Difobedience and mifpent Life." |
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In the miscellany of the latter part of the book are directions for making both black and red ink. The red ink recipe is : —
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AKE Half a Pint of Water, and put therein Half an Ounce of Gum Senega; let this diffolve in a Gallipot, and then add one Pennyworth of the beft Vermilion, ftirring it well for two Days. |
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