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A new guide to the English tongue : in five parts

Archive Print Item: Education 375.42042/DIL

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Type of record: Book

Title: A new guide to the English tongue : in five parts

Level: Item

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

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"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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