To

pour the fresh Instruction o'er the Mind, To breathe th' enlivening Spirit, and to fix The generous Purpose in the glowing breast.

THOMSON.

THE

ENGLISH SPELLING-BOOK,

ACCOMPANIED BY

A PROGRESSIVE SERIES

OF

Easy and Familiar Lessons,

INTENDED AS

AN INTRODUCTION

ΤΟ

THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

BY WILLIAM MAVOR, LL. D.

RECTOR OF STONESFIELD; VICAR OF HURLEY;

CHAPLAIN TO THE EARL OF MOIRA; AUTHOR OF THE BRITISH NEPOS, NATURAL HISTORY FOR SCHOOLS, UNIVERSAL SHORT-HAND,

&c. &c. &c.

Two Hundred and Seventeenth Edition, Revised and Improved.

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THE parts of this Spelling-Book, comprising elementary knowledge of peculiar importance, and which should be committed to memory before the child is ten years old, are the three Spelling Tables of Proper Names in the 108th and fol lowing pages; the definitions of the Arts and Sciences beginning in page 120; the list of Countries and their chief Cities in page 124 and the following pages to 129; the Pence, Mul tiplication, and other Tables, at pages 151 and 152; and the definitions of the Parts of Speech, with the short Syntax, in pages 141 to 143. In giving these articles as tasks, the Editor recommends that they should always be divided into small portions, and on no occasion be made of such length as to create fatigue, or distress the Pupil.

The CHURCH Catechism, the two short Catechisms by Dr. WATTS, and the Social Catechism of Mr. BARROW, as well as the Prayers and the pieces of Poetry, should be committed to memory as the understanding enlarges, and the capacity to read improves. The list of resembling words at page 116; the Stops and Marks at page 147; the French and Latin Words and Phrases at pages 147 and 148; the Abbreviations which follow these; Dr. FRANKLIN's Advice, in page 106; the Moral and Practical Observations at page 102; and the Survey of the Universe at page 131; may be intermixed with other studies, according to the discretion of the judicious Tutor.

When the pupil has made some progress in this work, he will be qualified to proceed to BLAIR'S Reading Exercises, and from thence to the Class Book and British Nepos.

It was a remark of the Publisher, (to whom British youth are under singular obligations for furnishing them with many valuable opportunities of improvement,) when he pressed the execution and plan of this work on the Editor, "That a Spelling-Book frequently. constitutes the whole library of a poor child, unless when charity puts a Bible into his hands; and it consequently ought to contain as great a variety of useful matter as the price will permit." The compilation has been formed strictly on this principle; and it will be felt by every candid Reader, that the child who may be unable to acquire any other literary knowledge than what can be learnt even in this elementary book, need never have reason to blush from total ignorance, or to err from want of a foundation of moral and religious principles.