A new guide to the English tongue : in five parts
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Type of record: Book
Title: A new guide to the English tongue : in five parts
Classmark: Education 375.42042/DIL
Creator(s): Dilworth, Thomas (1780)
Related people: Dilworth, Thomas, -1780; Dilworth, Thomas, -1780
Publisher: Printed for the booksellers in London and Westminster
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1795
Language: English
Size and medium: ix, 156 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/407871
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991009302839705181
Description
"The whole (being recommended by several clergymen and eminent school masters, 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."
Containing I. Words, both common and proper, from one to six syllables... -- II. A large and useful table of words that are the same in 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. A useful collection of sentences in prose and verse, divine, moral, and historical; together with a select number of fables ... -- V. Forms of prayer for children, on several occasions.
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