An American selection of lessons in reading and speaking : Calculated to improve the minds and refine the taste of youth. And also to instruct them in the geography, history, and politics of the United States. : To which are prefixed, rules in elocution, and directions for expressing the principal passions of the mind. : --Being the third part of A grammatical institute of the English language. : To which is now added, an appendix, containing several new dialogues. /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Printed at Boston :
By Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews. At Faust's Statue, no. 45, Newbury Street. Sold, wholesale and retail, at their bookstore; by said Thomas at his bookstore in Worcester, and by the booksellers in town and country,
MDCCXCIV. [1794]
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| Edition: | Thomas and Andrews' fifth edition. With many corrections and improvements, by the author. [Two lines from Mirabeau]. |
| Series: | Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ;
no. 28041. |
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| Online Access: | Evans Digital Edition |
| Item Description: | First published under title: A grammatical institute of the English language ... part III. Errors in paging: pages 182, 192 misnumbered 184, 291. "The New York Public Library has also a variant copy, in which signature T is from Thomas and Andrews' fourth edition; this results in page 227's ending with 'The Virtuous,' an eight-line poem, rather than the thirteen-line 'Prologue' which replaced it in this edition."--Skeel. Electronic resource. |
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| Physical Description: | 239 pages, 1 unnumbered page : 1 portrait ; 18 cm. (duodecimo) Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston. United States -- Massachusetts -- Worcester. |