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The Protestant school, or, A method, containing several forms of prayer, psalms, lessons, thanksgivings,…
The Protestant school, or, A method, containing several forms of prayer, psalms, lessons, thanksgivings, and graces for the bringing up and well grounding children and elder persons in the Protestant religion by the Bishop Usher. Also a catalogue of all the English words beginning with one syllable, and proceeding by degrees to eight ... : to which is added an historical account of several plots and remarkable passages from Queen Elizabeth to this present time ... by Moses Lane.
London: printed for Langly Curtiss, 1681
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Of Capital or Great Letters in writing.
They have in the beginning of Words their peculiar Uses: Noting not only Proper Names of Men, Cities, Callings, as Ambrose, Daniel, London, York, Mercer, or Grocer; but Dignities and Offices, as Highness, Lord Mayor, your Honour or Worship, with the Names of Arts, as Grammar, Rhetoric, Writing, Music, and Arithmetic; The beginnings of every Verse and Sentence, ought to be a Capital, as I go, I am, I will, &c. Great Letters are likewise to be used in Emphatical and remarkable Words, as God said to Moses, I AM, hath sent thee. Whole Sentences are emphatical: as JEHOVAH THE BRANCH, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS; and such like often found in the OLD TESTAMENT, or the NEW. To begin a Title, of a Book, ought to be in great Letters, as the WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMS, &c.
THey have in the beginning of Words their peculiar Uses: Noting not only Proper Names of Men, Cities, Callings, as Ambrose, Daniel, London, York, Mercer, or Grocer; but Dignities and Offices, as Highness, Lord Mayor, your Honour or Worship, with the Names of Arts, as Grammer, Rhetorick, Writing, Musick, and Arithmetick; The beginnings of every Verse and Sentence, ought to be a Capital, as I goe, I am, I will, &c. Great Letters are likewise to be used in Emphatical and remarkable Words, as God said to Moses, I AM, hath sent thee. Whole Sentences are emphatical: as JEHOVAH THE BRANCH, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS; and such like often found in the OLD TESTAMENT, or the NEW. To begin a Title, of a Book, ought to be in great Letters, as the WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMES, &c.