A COMPLETE SCHOOL-MASTER.

First to learn English the common way. ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVW

X Y Z &c. abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz &c.

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o u are Vowels, the rest are Consonants.

Double Consonants are,

& ffffffiffiff fh ft.

ab eb ib ob ub bab beb bib bob bub cab ceb cib cob cub ace bace case dace race face pace mace ab-ject com-pact a-mend-ed extend-ed an-ti-qui-ty di-mi-nish-ed in-sur-rec-ti-on la-bo-ri-ous-ness tran-sub-stan-ti-a-ti-on.

Our Fa-ther which art in Hea-ven, Hal-low-ed be thy Name, thy King-dom come, thy Will be done in Earth as it is in Hea-ven; give us this Day our dai-ly Bread, and for-give us our Tres-pass-es, as we forgive them that tres-pass a-gainst us; and lead us not in-to Temp-ta-ti-on, but de-li-ver us from E-vil; for thine is the King-dom, and the Pow-er, and the Glo-ry, for e-ver and e-ver. A-men.

A quick, delightful, and pretty Way to teach Children their A B C, which a School-Mistress in Little Britain used, to her great Profit, and Satisfaction of the Chidren's Parents. She did it, I am informed, in half the Time the common Way is taught them.

You must get four pieces of bone or wood, to be cut in six squares like dice, and on every side of the square let one of the letters of the Alphabet be engraven or writ; as ABCDEF on one, then G HIKLM on the other, and likewise on the rest. The child using to play with them among other children, and being told what letters are uppermost, will soon learn the Alphabet with sport and pleasure.

You may likewise cause a piece of bone or wood to be made into six long square sides, about two inches in length, and let

each side be written or engra ven with four letters, and so the rest of the sides, and let them throw it, and name which letters come uppermost; and when they have learned the great letters, you may write the small letters on it.

When they have learnt their letters, then teach them to spell thus: put A and B together, and ask what that spells; then A and C, and so on ; but to do this you must have twentyfour letters, and only one single letter on a die.

A new Method to teach Children to write legible in three Months Time.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z.

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Act nothing but what you may safely own
Better it is to endure Injuries than act any.
Covetous Men are poor for want of Content.
Delight to obey God's Grace in thy own Heart.
Evil Company provokes Youth to vain Words.
Fashion pleases only Fools and Fops.

Govern thy Actions by God's Law in thy Heart.
Hast thou wronged any Body, make Satisfaction.
Intemperance destroys more people than Wars.
Knowledge and true Wisdom is the Gift of God.
Less Ceremony and more Sincerity.

More of your Heart, and less of your Hat.

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No better am I, if Jerom were a Saint, if I be a Sinner.
Out of Evil comes no Good.

Pride goes before Destruction.

Quench not thy Desires to good Actions.
Remember thou must come to Judgment.
Strive to get Knowledge in profitable Arts.
Wise Men think twice before they act once.
Expel all evil Thoughts out of thy Mind.
Youth may die; the Old must die.

Zeno was a Philosopher, and very learned.

Rules to be observed by Children or others.

1. Rise at six in summer, and at seven in winter.

2. Make up your bed.

3. Wait upon God and pray, and God will bless and keep you all the day.

4. Then wash your hands and face, eyes and mouth, and behind your ears with fair water, and swallow two or three mouthfuls, and it will prevent Head-Ach, Tooth-Ach, Scurvy, and preserve your Gums and Teeth; and if your Teeth are Black, rub them with a little Brick Dust put on a linen cloth, and wash your mouth after, and it will clean them.

Eat a mess of water-gruel if you can have it, or a piece of bread and butter, or cheese, and drink a draught of fair water or small beer after it; water in summer is most wholesome; then go to school, or to other business, and be diligent there in; let no idle words or rude discourse be used by you; forsake all rude and ill company, live a sober and holy life, and all good people will desire your company.

Parents, let your Children live on roots, herbs, corn food, and let their drink be water; strong drink but seldom. Holy men of old lived in this manner, and obtained the age of some one hundred, some one hundred and twenty, and some one hundred and thirty, and were freest from Gouts, Head-Ach, and other distempers frequent to gluttons and drunkards, which are it is to be feared, three parts in four of most or all countries. A true Method of teaching how to write a good legible Hand. LET Copies be engraven and printed on good paper, not one line only on the top or side, as is usual for writing masters to place their copies, but in lines quite through the book. First the beginning strokes of every letter, and then the next added, and so on till the whole letter be finished; that the Child may know how, and where every letter is to be begun and made, let there be several lines of Small Letters, and the like of Capitals, and also copies of Joined-Hand, all well writ or cut, with the due strokes of a neat mixed hand, now most in fashion, easily learnt, and best for use; then let the Child with a good pen the best red ink, go over the letters and make them red, and so proceed to the whole letters; and then to the joining; only at the first it will be needful that the Tutor, or some one that can write well, should shew the Child how to hold his pen, and guide his hand for three weeks, and not suffer him to runrudely and hastily over the copy, which is but wasting time and paper, and spoiling his hand; it must be done heedfully, and when he has made his letter, to observe what is amiss, and mend it in the next, till he can make all his letters exactly; and then, and

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not before, let him proceed to the Joined-Hand Copies; and when this book is writ out, provide another. Thus writing over the copies, will, by frequent use and custom, bring his hand to a habit of making his letters without them in a little time. For if you keep him to this practice, there is no fear, but in three or four months he will be capable of writing a very good hand. And suppose now in that time he writes three or four of those copy books, that will be but three or four shillings charge in the whole. Likewise people of mature age may learn this way with ease, expedition, and se crecy, it being a method which cannot fail of perfecting any that shall carefully practise for one quarter of a year.

A new Method to teach Latin fluently in two Years' time.

A great discourse was some months since of a Child at Paris, of four years old, speaking Latin as other infants do their mother tongue; the King hearing of it, was willing to see it, and it caused wonderful admiration from him and all the court. I myself discoursed it some hours, and did not hear an improper word.

1. It had no other rules of language than this, Use and Conversation; the father thereof being so happy to find two friends honest and able, who asked it of him upon its being weaned. It is evident that nothing was omitted by them that might be of use, either for giving it the purity of the language, or possessing it with good manners. Manners, in speaking to it with discretion, and removing evil examples, and presenting it with nothing but what was harmless; and purity of speaking, and language, in using only proper and fit words, and in reprehending it, it corrected those that spoke false. Now, the suc cess of this education is desired for the good of all; the Latin Tongue being so difficult to attain in the common way of teaching it; and I question not, but many will be of my opinion, though they may not be in a condition to put them in practice, for want of persons capable to make such an attempt successful.

2. This way of teaching is hoth very ancient and infallible. For first, Nobody is ignorant, that from the beginning of the world to this day every one has learnt his mother-tongue without rules, and spoke it better than any other. Secondly, as to foreign languages, all know that the shortest, speediest, and easiest way of learning, is to give unto the countries where they are vulgar, where rules are needless to learn them. And I will not say that good natural parts hath much helped them; for that children, whether sprightly or no, learn almost equally well their mother-tongue. And that Child at Paris, I observed nothing in him more than a habit of reasoning and docibleness, that proceeded from the manner which those that

had taught him lived and conversed with him in. And I am more confirmed by the example of two other children very young, that were educated in the same way, that have almost nothing childish in them, but the motions and gayness that are inseparable from that age.

Montaigne's father had him taught thus, by imposing silence on all about his son, those excepted that could speak Latin to him. If it be thought that this way will cause great expences, being to have several Latinists with your children, the number of children will make that easy, and these doubts are easily satisfied when one sees the thing done, for often they are found more easy, and more natural, the more pains they have cost to do them.

The great importance to all people the Latin tongue is, needs not be insisted on; but the common way of learning it, makes it hard to be attained; for we prefer the knowledge of words to that of things, which is a great evil, and yet it doth not conduce to teach us, even the language we have sacrificed all unto; therefore I am for establishing an ancient, tried, easy, short, and commodious way for the knowledge of things as well as words.

The way of teaching this Child.

Ir was but two years old, and those that bred this were ready to undertake two others of about three years, and one of them had learnt to speak more Latin than before he could say words in his mother-tongne.

There is also one master with them, and the child that they had first, serves in a manner for a third master for the other two; the servants that attend them speak Latin to them, and teach them when they speak amiss in familiar matters. The first hath been thus brought up as I said before, till he was four years old, and his master now begins to teach him French. Quintilian was also of the opinion, that one language ought soon to follow the other, and so both be cultivated together. Thus they that can speak their mother-tongue, by putting them among them that can speak only Latin, may be also taught; and to prevent confusion, let them not speak English in the presence of the other children. Take but those that can speak the mother tongue, one at a time, that so the inability of the others, in answering him when he shall speak his language, may oblige him to strive to speak to them in theirs, with a reserve of giving him a companion which shall have gained an equal habit in both tongues.

And as those that know nothing but their mother-tongue, shall have been taught by conversing with those who speak nothing but Latin, so also may such as know only Latin, be instructed by the conversation of them that know their mother