OLD-TIME SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL-BOOKS - online book
An Illustrated history & description Of Schools in the 18th & 19th Centurys.
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144 Old-time Schools and School-books |
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Elizabeth Briggs is my Name And With my Hand I Have Wrought the Same in the 10th year Of my Age, Salem February 15th 1805 |
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How should we scorn these clothes of flesh, These fetters and this load, And long for evening to undress That we may rest with God. |
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Lower Half of a Sampler.
Showing a characteristic verse and some intricate and romantic designing. Width of
original, fifteen inches. |
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When the girls began to go to the masters' schools, the more aspiring of them adventured a little way into geography, grammar, and mathematics. The ignorant derided them for so doing and, with regard |
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