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A treatise on education : or, An easy method of acquiring language, and introducing children to the knowledge of history, geography, mythology, antiquities, &c. : with reflections on taste, poetry, natural history, &c. the manner of forming the temper, and teaching youth such moral precepts as are necessary in the conduct of life
Barclay, James (1765)
1743
Dedication signed: Ja. Barclay.
Observations on village-school education, with suggestions for its improvement
Gordon, Robert Augustus
[1850]
"Being a paper read at a meeting of the inspectors of the Diocese at Cuddesdon Palace."
Harold Orton Centenary Conference Exhibition
1998
Papers relating to an exhibition of items relating to Harold Orton and the Survey of English Dialects (SED) at the Harold Orton Centenary Conference, an international dialectology conference marking b...
Sheep Farming in Eskdale, Cumberland
Harrison, Keith
1966
A thesis which concentrates on aspects of sheep farming in Eskdale, with particular reference to one farming family in the area. Fieldwork was carried out between 1965 and 1966.
Der seinen zu erziehen habenden jungen Cavalier in der Profan- und Kirchen-Historie : so wohl als in der Geographie, denen Haupt-Principiis Juris Publici, dem nöthigsten von der Heraldic, der Genealogie derer vornehmsten Häuser in Europa, und was sonsten zu dem Anfang der Staats-Wissenschafft gehörig getreu, und gründlich unterweisende Hofmeister, zum Nutzen derer bey den jungen Herren Grafen von Nostiz und Rhineck etc
Launay, Charles Louis de
1738
First title-page in red and black. The second begins "Des getreu- und gründlich unterweisenden Hofmeisters anderter Theil..." and omits the place from imprint.
Der seinen zu erziehen habenden jungen Cavalier in der Profan- und Kirchen-Historie : so wohl als in der Geographie, denen Haupt-Principiis Juris Publici, dem nöthigsten von der Heraldic, der Genealogie derer vornehmsten Häuser in Europa, und was sonsten zu dem Anfang der Staats-Wissenschafft gehörig getreu, und gründlich unterweisende Hofmeister, zum Nutzen derer bey den jungen Herren Grafen von Nostiz und Rhineck etc
Launay, Charles Louis de
1738
First title-page in red and black. The second begins "Des getreu- und gründlich unterweisenden Hofmeisters anderter Theil..." and omits the place from imprint.
Raven McDavid Articles
McDavid, Raven Ioor (1911-1984)
[1960-1981]
Originally housed in a single folder labelled Complete Set of Xeroxes of Raven McDavid's Articles, these files contain photocopies of printed, typed and draft articles and papers by McDavid, mainly re...
Questionnaire Response Books
1950-1961
This subseries contains the original response books in which the Survey of English Dialects (SED) fieldworkers recorded informants' responses to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. A response book exists f...
Sound Recordings, Kent
Barry, Michael V (1935-)
1958
[Collector announcement]; Frank Osbourne, recorded in Goudhurst in November 1958; talks about his working hours on the farm/land with horses; his agricultural labourer's wage of fourteen shillings a w...