OLD-TIME SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL-BOOKS - online book
An Illustrated history & description Of Schools in the 18th & 19th Centurys.
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316 Old-time Schools and School-books
See this flock of black-birds: they have lighted upon the bars of a gate, and are all singing together. Find how many there are on each separate bar. |
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From Lesson First of Emerson's The North American Arithmetic, Part First, 1838.
The pictures were confined to the early lessons in the first pages, and the book as a whole was designed for the older pupils. We had no primary arithmetics until 1838, when Emerson's The North American Arithmetic.Part Firsts appeared with illustrations scattered all through it. This was a genuine beginner's book of the modern type. The preface deprecated the fact that " the practice of postponing arithmetic till children arrive at the age |
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