Stories for Short Students; Or, Light Lore for Little People |
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Page 4 - The BEAUTIES of HISTORY ; or. Pictures of Virtue and Vice, drawn from examples of Men eminent for their Virtues, or infamous for their Vices. Selected for the instruction and entertainment of Youth.
Page 4 - The first of these little Treatises is intended to be the young pupil's manual; and the greater part of it is to be committed to memory : the Second is designed to remain some time in the possession of the teacher for her own occasional use ; the whole, to assist ladies in teaching the rudiments of Grammar, not only to the female part of their family, but their little sons, before they go to school.
Page 1 - Butler's Outline Maps, and Key, or GEOGRAPHICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL EXERCISES ; with a Set of Coloured Outline Maps, designed for the use of Young Persons. By the late WILLIAM BUTLER. Enlarged by the Author's Son, J.
Page 1 - ... introducing in the Key a large fund of bioirraphical, historical, and general information. Such were the Author's views; and the extensive favour with which his effort has been received, demonstrates that his labour was not In vain. The very low price of the work puts it within the reach of every one who has the least desire of improving himself, or his dependents, in the knowledge of the most useful, because the most frequently in demand, of all sciences.