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An Illustrated history & description Of Schools in the 18th & 19th Centurys.

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88 Old-time Schools and School-books
One of Several Similar Pages of Illustrated Rhymes and Comments in The Royal Primer, Worcester, Mass., 1787.
In an edition of 1771 we find what at first sight promises to be an entertaining story, but it proves only a description of one of the priggish little good boys that abound in the juvenile literature of the period.
THE HISTORY OF MASTER TOMMY
FIDO.
A S Goodnefs and Learning make the Child a Man, fo Piety makes him an Angel. Mafter Tommy Fido not only loved his Book becaufe it made him wifer, but be-caufe it made him better too. He loved every Body, and
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