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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.
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 Numeration.
Numeration teaches how to set down any Number spoken of or proposed; to read it truly when written. To which purpose you are to take notice, that we commonly express all Numbers by these nine Figures, 1 One, 2 two, 3 three, 4 four, 5 five, 6 six, 7 seven, 8 eight 9 nine, and 0, which is called a Cypher, and by some Nought, because of it self it stands for nothing, yet increases the Value of other Figures that stand behind it, in the same manner. Every Figure augments its proper Value, according to the place it happens to be in, except the first.
NUmeration teaches how to set down any Number spoken of or proposed; to read it truly when written. To which purpose you are to take notice, that we commonly express all Numbers by these nine Figures, 1 One, 2 two, 3 three, 4 four, 5 five, 6 six, 7 seven, 8 eight 9 nine, and 0, which is called a Cypher, and by some Nought, because of it self it stands for nothing, yet encreases the Value of other Figures that stand behind it, in the same manner. Every Figure augments its proper Value, according to the place it happens to be in, except the first.
Any of the Nine Figures in the first place, signifies only its own single value; in the second place, so many times Ten; in the third place, so many Hundreds; in the ⟨p. 124⟩fourth place so many Thousands; in the fifth place, so many ten Thousands; in the sixth place, so many hundred Thousands; and in the 7th place, so many Millions.
Any of the Nine Figures in the first place, signifies only its own single value; in the second place, so many times Ten; in the third place, so many Hundreds; in the ⟨p. 124⟩