N29515:656
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 Addition.
Addition is that part of Arithmetic, which shows to collect or add divers Sums together▪ and to express their total Value in one Sum.
ADdition is that part of Arithmetick, which shews to collect or add divers Sums together▪ and to express their total Value in one Sum.
As for Example; Suppose you had disbursed for your Master the Sums of Money following; as, For Wine 5 lib. For Sugar 4 lib. For Candles 3 lib. For Nails 2 lib. In all 14 lib.
Now to know how much the Total of this is, you must add them up together, beginning at the bottom, say, 2 & 3 makes 5, & 4 is 9, & 5 is 14, which set down underneath; & by that it appears you have disbursed 14 Pounds.