A new guide to the English tongue: In five parts. Containing, I. Words, both common and proper, from one to six syllables; the several sorts of monosyllables in the common words being distinguished by tables, ... II. A large and useful table of words, that are the same i sound, but different in signification; ... III. A short, but comprehensive grammar of the English tongue, delivered in the most familiar and instructive method of question and answer, ... IV. An useful collection of sentences in prose and verse, divine, moral, and historical; together with a selec number of fables, ... V. Formes of prayer for children, on several occasions. The whole, being recommended by several clergymen and eminent schoolmasters, as the most useful performance for the instruction of youth, is designed for the use of schools in Great Britain, Ireland, and in the several English colonies and plantations abroad. The twenty-sixth edition. By Thomas Dilworth, author of the Schoolmasters Assistant; Young

People / Organizations

• Thomas Dilworth (Author)

Imprint

London: printed and sold by Henry Kent, at the printing office in Finch-Lane, near the Royal Exchange, M,DCC,LXIV. [1764]

Publication year

1764-1764

ESTC No.

N70508

Grub Street ID

51074

Description

ix, [5], 154 p. : ill. (portrait) ; 12⁰

Note

Frontis = ill.Subject English language -- Orthography and spelling.

English language -- Syntax -- Early works to 1800.

English language -- Grammar -- Early works to 1800.

English language -- Phonetics -- Early works to 1800.