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Instructions for children: or, The child's & youth's delight, teaching an easy way to…Instructions for children: or, The child's & youth's delight, teaching an easie way to…
Instructions for children: or, The child's & youth's delight, teaching an easy way to spell & read true English. : Containing the father's godly advice; directing parents in a right and spiritual manner to educate their children. : With a Christian catechism, wherein all the chief principles of true Christianity are clearly opened. : Together with many other things both pleasant and useful for the education of children. / Written by Benj. Keach.Instructions for children: or, The child's & youth's delight, teaching an easie way to spell & read true English. : Containing the father's godly advice; directing parents in a right and spiritual manner to educate their children. : With a Christian catechism, wherein all the chief principles of true Christianity are clearly opened. : Together with many other things both pleasant and useful for the education of children. / Written by Benj. Keach.
New York: printed by Will. Bradford, 1695
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Part 3 › Of Scripture Weights, Measures and Coins.Part 3 › Of Scripture Weights, Measures and Coyns.
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 Scripture Weights, Measures and Coins.
Of Scripture Weights, Measures and Coyns.
AN Hairs Breadth, the 48th part of an Inch. A Hands breadth, three Inches. A Span, nine Inches. A Foot, twelve Inches. A Cubit, a foot and a half. A holy Cubit, a Yard. The Kings Cubit, a foot & 9 Inch. A Reed, six Cubits and a Hands breadth. A Pace, five Foot. A Furlong, 125 Paces. A Mile, 1000 Paces. A Sabbath days Journey, 600 Paces.
AN Hairs Breadth, the 48th part of an Inch. A Hands breadth, three Inches. A Span, nine Inches. A Foot, twelve Inches. A Cubit, a foot and a half. A holy Cubit, a Yard. The Kings Cubit, a foot & 9 Inch. A Reed, six Cubits and a Hands breadth. A Pace, five Foot. A Furlong, 125 Paces. A Mile, 1000 Paces. A Sabbath days Journy, 600 Paces.
Measures of Capacity of things that are Dry. A Kab, Quart. An Omer, 3 Pints & an half▪ A Measure or Seah, a Gallon. An Ephah, half a Bushel and a Pottle. ⟨p. 118⟩Half Omer, or Lethe•, seven bushel and a quart. An Omer, or Cor, 14 bushel and a pottle.